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Bush Comes Under Fire In Iraq

President Bush went on a secret trip to Iraq as a farewell tour and he was attacked while there. A reporter from one of those backwards countries there called Bush a dog and threw his shoes at the president. Bush ducked the first shoe and the second sailed past his head. The president waved off [...]

Iraq’s Cabinet Approves Security Agreement With US

Iraq’s cabinet approved to so-called status of forces agreement today, after Iraqi PM al-Maliki and Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric, the Ayatollah Sistani, signed on to it. This gives the new pact a pretty good chance of passing the Iraqi parliament.
The main difference in the new draft text was a written-in-stone date for a complete [...]

Still Ignoring Progress in Iraq

MSM Wouldn’t Want Good News To Blunt Election Message

The MSM didn’t give this story any prominence (natch), but it’s some story:
U.S. deaths in Iraq fell in October to their lowest monthly level of the war, matching the record low of 13 fatalities suffered in July. Iraqi deaths fell to their lowest monthly levels of the [...]

Video - The Day We Lose Our Will to Fight is the Day We Lose Our Freedom

John McCain Represents a Stark Contrast to Barack Obama

A Friend sent me this video. I hope the McCain campaign picks up on it. Powerful.
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Obama Wrong Again: The Surge ‘has succeeded beyond our wildest dreams’

No One On the Left Had Faith That The Surge Would Succeed, Instead Betting On and In Some Cases Hoping For Failure
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) — Barack Obama said the surge of American forces in Iraq has “succeeded beyond our wildest dreams,” though Iraqis still haven’t done enough to take responsibility for their country.
“The surge has [...]

Obama’s Ignorance Exposed: Iran Test Fires 9 Missiles 1 Month After Obama Claims Iran is Not a Threat

On May 18th 2008 Barack Obama stood on stage and said Iran was not a threat.
“Iran, Cuba, Venezuela? These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose any serious threat to us,” he told a crowd at a campaign stop over the weekend, prompting the probable Republican opponent for the White House [...]

Iraqi Yellowcake Uranium Reaches Canada

Webloggin Note: There are currently 2 bouts of misinformation coursing through the blogosphere with regard to this story.
First, for all the conservatives that claim this is proof positive that Saddam Hussein was pursuing a nuclear program and that he had made progress on that front: sorry that is not the case with this particular uranium. [...]

Spiegel: ‘Unexpected Air of Normalcy Prevailing in Baghdad’

The story is amazing and the source — the normally anti-American Spiegel (a German magazine) — is equally amazing.  According to this story, things in Baghdad are going really well, and the citizens have a renewed sense of well-being and purpose:
There is an unexpected air of normalcy prevailing in Baghdad these days, with consumption flourishing [...]

WaPo Report: The Lie Behind “Bush Lied, People Died”

There is an absolutely staggering editorial in today’s Washington Post — it admits that, John Rockefeller’s “official” indictment to the contrary, Bush did not lie. If anything, Rockefeller, in his official Senate Intelligence Committee report is lying by reaching conclusions at odds with his own evidence:
Search the Internet for “Bush Lied” products, and you will [...]

Prescient Versus Naive? Two Candidates, One Iraq

Frederick Kagan has a fascinating comparison of the specific Iraq policy plans McCain and Obama advanced before the Surge.  McCain actually envisioned a surge-like event, and described all the positive benefits that would flow from it — and his predictions proved to be completely accurate.  Obama, of course, demanded retreat and defeat.  Given the success [...]