Archive for May 8th, 2008

May 08 2008

2008 – The Year Of The Centrists

As a conservative independent I of course like to view the world through my only lens of preferences, but I think it is safe to say I have my biases fairly well checked when I claim this year Americans are heading away from the hyper-partisan fringes, weary of nearly 3 decades of hyper-partisan rancor and […]

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May 08 2008

Scratch Another Top al-Qaeda Leader! – Never Mind ….

Major Update: US says Masri not captured. – end update al-Qaeda’s forces in Iraq have been spending the last year, since President George Bush decided to implement General David Petraeus’ counter insurgency strategy that had by this time last year turned the Sunni Province of Anbar, the center of al-Qaeda’s operations in Iraq at the […]

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May 08 2008

Iraq Applies More Pressure On Sadr To Disband Militia

Yep, things are definitely coming to a between Sadr’s Iranian (i.e., Persian) backed Mahdi Militia and the Iraqi (i.e., Arab) Shiite led government of Iraq. Before the latest news on the pressure being brought to bear on Moqtada al-Sadr to end the stand-off peacefully, I want to reference coverage of a recent news show from […]

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May 08 2008

The End Is Near For The Mahdi In Sadr City

As I posted yesterday the Iraqi government is preparing for a final thrust into Sadr City to clear out Mahdi Militia thugs who have been hiding and using weapons amongst the people living there in order to attack the Iraqi government and US forces: raqi soldiers for the first time warned residents in the embattled […]

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May 08 2008

As The Pressure Builds To Blow Apart The Democrats ….

One thing the News Media forgets is voters don’t like their apparent influence and efforts to twist a race towards their preferred candidates. Typically this meddling in our democracy by the very liberal news media (note their multi-year effort to get us to surrender in Iraq, which is why many times I refer to them […]

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