Archive for the ‘Iraq’ Category
i’m from iran and i’m here to help…
we’ve got mail…and it’s from our good friend the president of iran. wonkette provides a snarky interpretation here. mahmoud ahmadinejad is underestimating the average american. we can tell the difference between what he’s doing, and what our own government is doing. have we made mistakes? of course we have, but we are able to debate [...]
the price of surrender
andrew cline in the american spectator: Generals often make the mistake of fighting the last war. On Iraq, Democrats are doing exactly that. They just cannot get past Vietnam. Someone might want to remind them of two important lessons of Vietnam they seem to have forgotten: 1) In the absence of U.S. troops, the Communists [...]
the stakes
victor davis hanson: …So we are at a crossroads of all places in Iraq. The war there has metamorphosized from a successful effort to remove a mass-murdering dictator into the frontlines of the entire struggle between Islamic radicalism and Western liberality. If we withdraw before the elected government stabilizes, the consequences won’t just be the [...]
rumsfeld gone
congratulations. the left has now gotten everything they wanted. i hope that president bush’s pick will be a strong secretary of defense, and that he will give us a fresh perspective on iraq and a good strategy to finish what we started there. tags: donald rumsfeld, iraq
justice for saddam
saddam is no longer president of iraq. that’s a good thing. he will die for his crimes. that’s also good. it’s a positive development for iraq, for its people, and for iraq’s continued evolution toward a more democratic and free society. what the iraqis also need to move forward is a strong political leader they [...]
hidden in plain sight
i just don’t see how anyone in the media originally missed this part of the excerpt from the National Intelligence Estimate, since it was in the first paragraph. here’s a reading comprehension exercise for them. see if you can figure out what this means, ladies and gentlemen of the press. full text here(pdf). United States-led [...]
it’s just that simple
mort kondracke nails the big question in the november elections. will it be decided by views on iraq or on the war on terrorism? i believe that the answer will determine which party will be left standing at the end. Republicans think they gain by calling the Democrats “defeatists” on Iraq and by asserting that [...]
lieberman: rummy must go
from face the nation sunday night (8/20): (pdf) BOB SCHIEFFER: Tell us what you would do right now that is different than what the president is proposing. Sen. LIEBERMAN: Yeah. I think there’s–three years ago in October on this show you asked me and I said that I believe that it was time for new [...]
it’s up to us
in november, we will have an opportunity to vote on the direction of the iraq war. we have a chance to choose between two parties with what (i believe) are two totally different views on the prosecution of the iraq war and on the overall war on terror. while i think that it’s an unfair [...]
the battle for iraq
iraqi prime minister maliki addressed a joint session of congress today, and this is part of what he said. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, our nascent democracy faces numerous challenges and impediments, but our resolve is unbreakable and we will overcome them. The greatest threat Iraq’s people face is terror: terror inflicted by extremists who [...]
