Archive for 'Iraq'

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

He’s Not A Fan

It’s fair to say Christopher Hitchens is a wee bit disappointed in the big George Tenet tell-all:
…[T]he only really interesting question is why the president did not fire this vain and useless person on the very first day of the war. Instead, he awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom! Tenet is now so self-pitying […]

No Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq by Mark

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Monday, April 30th, 2007

We’ve Heard This Song Before…

…and the tune never was a good one.  How hard it is to keep one’s hopes up about Iraq when the predominantly Shiite government continually favors its own!
A department of the Iraqi prime minister’s office is playing a leading role in the arrest and removal of senior Iraqi army and national police officers, some of […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Iraq by Mark

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Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Don’t Believe Everything You Read…

…and if it involves Europe, believe nothing you read. Typical of the coverage of the Paul Wolfowitz World Bank scandal is this from the Washington Post:
Paul Wolfowitz encountered stiffening opposition Saturday to staying on as World Bank president amid allegations he showed favoritism in arranging a promotion and pay package for his girlfriend.
European countries […]

5 Comments » - Posted in Iraq, Foreign Affairs by Mark

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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

Exploding The “We Overreacted To 9/11″ Myth

Michael Chertoff, the Secretary of Homeland Security, has an absolutely essential piece in today’s Washington Post that takes on the foolish subset of (mostly liberal) Americans who somehow manage to come to the conclusion that there is no need for a war on terror:
As the rubble of the Twin Towers smoldered in 2001, no one […]

1 Comment » - Posted in POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq, Foreign Affairs, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

More On Iraq And Progress

In the post below, I stressed my belief that if real signs are progress are not made by late summer, the surge will have to be considered a failure, at least on a political level.  That brings up the quite real question of what ‘progress’ in such an environment is.  In this article from the […]

No Comments » - Posted in Iraq by Mark

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Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Is Partition The Answer?

There of those of us who still believe in the idea of a united, democratic Iraq, though our hopes have been dashed time and time again and the remnants are fading.  I never thought the idea of a partitioned Iraq was worth fighting and dying over.  You can understand, then, my disappointment that it has come […]

22 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, POTUS, Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

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Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Senator Levin: We Will Not Stop Funding The War

A Democratic senator with big-time influence and authority is quite publicly sending a message to Harry Reid and other Democrats who have thrown their lot in with the Nutroots®, and the message is this: we won’t stop funding for the war.
The Senate will not stop paying for the Iraq war nor relent from insisting that […]

9 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, POTUS, Donkeys, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Joe Klein’s Contentless Rant

Nothing is more disappointing than seeing a formerly reasonable person lose control of his senses.  Joe Klein has always been a pretty calm oasis of sanity in the midst of the Bush Derangement Syndrome that has gripped much of the left, but I’m afraid I’ll have to start using the past tense after reading this piece:
From […]

4 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Iraq by Mark

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Saturday, March 31st, 2007

As Iran Continues To Defy Britain Over The Captured British Troops…

…it may be of interest to you to note that the ‘cold’ conflict with Iran already turned hot, as far back as September 7th of last year, when U.S., Iraqi, and Iranian troops were involved in a firefight that left at least one Iranian and several Iraqis dead.  TIME has the details:
The soldiers who were […]

5 Comments » - Posted in Iran, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq by Mark

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Friday, March 30th, 2007

The Russian Bear Is The Fool Of The Animal Kingdom

As there any decency to Russia’s foreign policy? Even a shred? Read along with me:
Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday that Britain would not negotiate over British sailors and marines held hostage by Iran. In an interview with ITV News, Blair again called for the unconditional return of the 15 Royal Navy personnel who were […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Iran, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq, Foreign Affairs, UN/Oil-For-Food by Mark

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Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Senate Bill Is A Porker, Too

Dana Milbank details more vote-buying waste in the Senate’s version of the Iraq Surrender bill:
Midway through the Senate debate yesterday over the “emergency” spending bill for Iraq, Barbara Boxer rose to speak in favor — of strawberries.
“There’s a song called ‘Strawberry Fields Forever,’ ” the California Democrat declared on the Senate floor, as an aide […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, Iraq by Mark

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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

A Bleg For An Old Friend

Since you read Decision ‘08, you’re undoubtedly all fabulously rich and devastatingly good looking, so you’ll be in a position to help our old friend Academic Elephant.  Even if you’re not (rich and beautiful, that is), considering giving what you can.  RedState wants to send former frequent commenter (hey, we miss you!) AE, now known […]

No Comments » - Posted in Linky Love, Iraq by Mark

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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

More On The Upcoming Veto

I don’t know what else to call it, since the Senate will apparently keep the withdrawal language, as we discussed below; basically, the Senate and House have voted for a veto. Fair enough, a veto they will get:
The Democratic-controlled Senate narrowly signaled support Tuesday for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by next […]

3 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Sharpen Your Veto Pen

Senator Mitch McConnell, who has been nothing short of brilliant in outmanuevering his Democratic colleagues on Iraq thus far, in particular ‘Dirty’ Harry Reid, is signalling a temporary retreat on the language requiring troop withdrawals, predicting it will be in the supplemental funding bill that passes the Senate in the expectation that the President will […]

No Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

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Monday, March 26th, 2007

The Shame Of The Democratic Porkers

Does anyone still remember when Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats swore they were going to clean up the ‘culture of corruption’?  Shame on them, all of them:
The patriotic-sounding bill is dubbed the “U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Health, and Iraq Accountability Act,” but the subtitle could be, “And Don’t Forget Farmers, Shrimpers, NASA […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Donkeys, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Monday, March 26th, 2007

The Madman Of Tehran

I seriously think Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is insane.  Does he really think Tony Blair will sit by and let him do this?
FIFTEEN British sailors and marines arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards off the coast of Iraq may be charged with spying.
A website run by associates of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, reported last night that the […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Iran, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq, Foreign Affairs by Mark

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Saturday, March 24th, 2007

New Sanctions On Iran…

…but to what avail?
Iran’s foreign minister rejected a unanimous vote by the U.N. Security Council on Saturday to impose new sanctions on Iran because of its refusal to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
Speaking to the 15-member council in measured tones after the vote, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said, “Iran presents no threat to […]

No Comments » - Posted in Iran, POTUS, Iraq, UN/Oil-For-Food by Mark

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Saturday, March 24th, 2007

Some ‘Victory’

The Wall Street Journal is right on the money today:
“A Triumph For Pelosi” -
That’s how the Associated Press described yesterday’s vote by the House to demand a U.S. retreat from Iraq, and in the perverse calculus of Capitol Hill we suppose it was. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has demonstrated she can pile on enough pork […]

No Comments » - Posted in Donkeys, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Bush’s Statement On The House Vote

A clearly angry President George W. Bush laid into the House Democrats today, and he was absolutely right to do [all points of emphasis mine]:
Here in Washington, members of both parties recognize that our most solemn responsibility is to support our troops in the war on terror. Yet, today, a narrow majority in the House of […]

11 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Donkeys, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Friday, March 23rd, 2007

House Vote Will Go Pelosi’s Way, But It Won’t Matter

All indications are that the Democrats will pass their anti-war measure today:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is headed for a big victory in the vote in the House Friday on $124 billion in funds for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If, as looked likely Thursday night, she does win, her victory will be largely due to […]

6 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Donkeys, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Uncategorized by Mark

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