Feb
13
2008
The liberal Surrendercrats in Congress have kept trying to move the goal posts to make the lame and idiotic case that the Surge and Awakening in Iraq has been a failure. Their last vestige for trying to pull defeat out of success was the claim political reconciliation had not (yet) occurred and that was the […]
Feb
13
2008
I found two insightful pieces today – and one that is so hypocritical and ironic you would think it was a spoof. First to the ‘must reads’ for the day. Secretary of State Condi Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates outline an objective assessment of where we all need to go now in Iraq […]
Feb
13
2008
The world is a slightly better place today with word that another deadly terrorist has been killed: A Hezbollah commander suspected in some of the deadliest terrorist attacks of the last 25 years and a reputed role model for Osama bin Laden has been killed in Syria, Hezbollah TV said Wednesday. Imad Mughniyeh died in […]
Feb
12
2008
In his speech tonight Obama said Bush-McCain will continue “a war that never should have been fought, never should have been authorized!” I could not help finish his thought for him: “a war that never should have been fought, never should have been authorized, and never should have been won! Vote for me and we […]
Feb
12
2008
Wild speculation alert! I could not help but note something in a Washington Post article on a recently captured Taliban Leader: A top Taliban commander in Afghanistan who claimed close ties to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was captured Monday in southwestern Pakistan, according to a Pakistani military official. … Last year, Dadullah took command […]
Feb
12
2008
Some news from Iraq that was missed by the presidential race-horse obsessed media. As we have seen many times in the past al-Qaeda is running out of holy warriors willing to be suicide bombers or even be fighters. They have recently been trying to recruit and train young children – as if these poor waifs […]
Feb
11
2008
Time again for another round of “Is Bin Laden Dead”? U.S. intelligence agencies are beginning to suspect that Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden is dead after all, despite a recent audio tape exhorting Al Qaida terrorists in Iraq. … The new analysis of Bin Laden follows the death of No. 3 Al Qaida leader […]
Feb
11
2008
Another day another clear indication that al-Qaeda is near defeat. In a previous post it was clear money and recruits were drying up for al-Qaeda as Iraqi Muslims turned on them to hunt them down and rid Iraq of Bin Laden’s thugs. And as the operational area for al-Qaeda shrinks and is surrounded by US […]
Feb
11
2008
It would seem the Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan are not all that secure, indicated by how another, newly-minted Taliban has been captured: Pakistani security forces wounded and captured a prominent Taliban commander on Monday near the border area with Afghanistan, Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said. Mullah Mansour Dadullah took over as commander of Taliban forces […]
Feb
10
2008
Even al-Qaeda is finally admitting what the US SurrenderMedia and Surrendercrats (a.k.a, Democrats) cannot admit: al-Qaeda is on its last legs in Iraq and our victory is getting closer by the day. In the words of our enemies: Al-Qaeda in Iraq faces an “extraordinary crisisâ€. Last year’s mass defection of ordinary Sunnis from al-Qaeda to […]