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Barack Obama Tries To Persuade Iraqi Leaders To Delay Draw-Down Until After Election
Treason is a pretty simple concept.  Here are a few choice definitions:
A violation of allegiance to one’s sovereign or to one’s state.
Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by consciously [...]

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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 [...]

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Before today, I hadn’t heard of Frank Turek.  After today, I’m going to keep an eye out for his articles.  He’s written a really splendid article explaining how deeply, terribly wrong Obama’s every position is regarding Iraq.  Frankly, for those who are well-informed, there’s nothing in this article you haven’t seen before.  I’m just impressed [...]

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Recently HBO has been pimping their troop bashing farce called Generation Kill. You can see the trailer here.
Knowing what we now know about the Iraq war, that it is not Vietnam, that we are not taking the country’s oil despite the billions spent executing the war, and despite the biggest lie of all concerning the [...]

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I’m sorry to say that, for me, “the troops” have always been somewhat abstract, not because I don’t respect and admire them, but because I really don’t know any troops. Living in my Marin bubble, where the military is anathema to the average person, you simply don’t have a large number of people entering [...]

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A second batch of secret government files has been found on a train, this time detailing Britain’s efforts to tackle terrorism financing, the drugs trade and money-laundering.  The files, stamped “UK Top Secret,”   were found on a London-bound train on Wednesday, the same day classified documents on al-Qaida and Iraq were handed to the British [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Here we go again. The war of words. Obama blunders, Hillary blurbs. Is it any wonder the American people are fed up with politics? Just what kind of campaigns are being wrought here? You can blame the media for their bias all day long, but both of these candidates most certainly have given us too [...]

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For all of you who have been so kind as to make a USO donation, I wanted you to see the kind of things that money buys.
General Petraeus cut the ribbon on a brand new USO office right in Iraq - where it can do the most good. From the press release:
The new center is [...]

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