Archive for April, 2007
Biden vs. McCain
Joseph Biden takes issue with John McCain’s “The War You’re Not Reading About” piece in the Washington Post last Sunday and writes a rebuttal in the Washington Post; McCain wrote that the president’s strategy is beginning to show results but that most Americans don’t know it because the media cover the bad news, not the […]
Where is shame?
A conversation I had with a co-worker the other day got me to thinking about this. I know it’s outside what I usually post here, but two articles on Drudge Report this morning struck me as similar and in the same vein as the discussion my friend and I had. The first article on Drudge was […]
Sadr-ites back withdrawal timetable
According to Washington Post’s Qassim Abdul-Zahra Sadr’s allies in the Iraqi legislature are threatening to leave the government if the Iraq government doesn’t support a withdrawal timetable for US troops; Iraqi Cabinet ministers allied to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened Wednesday to quit the government to protest the prime minister’s lack of support for a […]
Syria’s martyrdom superhighways
In today’s DC Examiner, Rowan Scarborough tells us that Syria is the entry-point for suicide bombers in Iraq; Al-Qaida in Iraq is operating three main entry routes for suicide bombers coming into Iraq from Syria, despite more than three years of U.S. efforts to control the border and convince Damascus to evict the jihadists, an […]
Webb; we can’t call ourselves Americans
Spoiled brat, Senator Jim Webb told a group of University of Virginia students that we should shut down the Guantanamo detention facility because it’s un-Americans according to the Washington Examiner and AP; Webb said he agreed early in the war on terrorism that such a facility was needed. “But there comes a point where people […]
Levin finally admits Democrats are clueless on Iraq
So I figure the folks over at HuffPo, et al. have smoke coming out of their ears after Carl Levin admitted that Congress won’t cut off funding for the Iraq war. From Bloomberg; “We’re not going to cut off funding for the troops,” the 72-year-old Michigan Democrat said on ABC’s “This Week” program. “But what […]
Washington Post’s regret; Saddam is gone
In an article today, the Washington Post’s Sudarsan Raghavan wistfully writes about one single Iraqi who regrets that Saddam is gone; Crowds of chanting Iraqis, some clutching stones and sandals, swarmed Firdaus Square to deliver blows to the statue. Then, with the help of an American tank and a winch, it toppled, creating one of […]
Clinton economy overshadowed by the Bush economy
Bill Sammon of the Washington Examiner reports today that the White House says the economy over which this administration has presided is more robust than the Clinton era economy; The White House says the economic surge that began five and a half years ago on President Bush’s watch is more robust than the much-touted expansion […]
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