Archive for the ‘GWOT’ Category
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
There are a couple of good pieces in the news today on the war in Iraq. The first is a piece on how firebrand Joe Lieberman is taking his formerly fellow Democrats in the Senate to task not just on the war in Iraq, but the Greater War on ...
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
It's very rare I see an opinion piece or editorial in the Stra Tribune that gets it right, especially where the war in iiraq is concerned. Here is one by Clifford D. May, and is well worth reading.
The gist of the piece is that if we really are heading for, ...
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
The Washington Times reports that China is playing both ends of the field when it comes to arming Iraq. They have just cut a deal to supply $100 million dollars worth of assault rifles to the Iraqi police.
Recent intelligence reports also indicate that China has been supplying weapons to ...
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Pro-terrorist activist Cindy Sheehan has found a new way to get back into the news cycle: the California Moonbat has announced her intentions to challenge Nancy Pelosi in 2008 if Pelosi doesn't move to impeach President Bush.
From the Hill:
Discussing President Bush and Vice President Cheney, Sheehan said, "We put them ...
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
The Red Star Tribune editorial staff is off to their usual tricks of biased reporting and scare-mongering. This time in response to the National Intelligence Estimate released this week. The bigger question is: are they reading the same report I am? If so, how can they come to the ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
Froma Harrop's column in the Red Star Tribune is not exactly full of surprises. She rants on about how bush will go down in "ignomy" for "trying to wage an unnecessary war on the cheap," referring to the war in Iraq, and how America is a nation of ...
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Al Franken is sharpening his anti-war credentials with an open letter to Senator Norm Coleman published in the Star Tribune on Tuesday:
"Since this war began, you have voted to support the president's policy of endless war and demonized those who stood up in opposition. Meanwhile, 3,600 of our men and ...
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Ayman Al-Zawahiri, second in command of the terrorist group al-Qaeda, has released a new video imploring all Muslims to support the "Islamic State of Iraq," a shadow Islamist "government being pushed by the terrorist groups to replace the fledgling democracy in Iraq.
Al-Zawahiri made it clear that implementing an Islamic government ...
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
This is in From FoxNews:
Iran is using the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah as a "proxy" to arm Shiite militants in Iraq and Tehran's elite Quds force helped militants carry out a January attack in Karbala in which five Americans were killed, a U.S. general said Monday.
A senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative, ...
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
That is the name of the opinion piece in which Michael Evans writes about Jimmy Carter and the disastrous policies he implemented that wrought the problems in the Middle East of today. It seems we have a lot to thank former president Jimmy Carter for, and Evans scores his ...
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Iran, despite what the hard-left liberals think, is a terrorist regime. No doubt about it. They have been funneling weapons and bombs to sectarian death squads and terrorist groups operating in Iraq as well as supporting the terrorist group Hezbollah. Now five of their "diplomats" are being ...
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Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
The ACLU has come out on the side of al-Qaeda. From the World Tribune:
Boeing has been sued by suspected Al Qaida operatives transported by the CIA to Arab countries for interrogation and torture.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan on behalf ...
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
American al-Qaeda Gadahn is in the news again, delivering threats and ultimatums to the U.S. From FoxNews:
"Your failure to heed our demands ... means that you and your people will ... experience things which will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11th, Afghanistan and Iraq and ...
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
FoxNews has a disturbing report about the attitude of U.S. Muslims and terrorism:
While nearly 80 percent of U.S. Muslims say homicide bombings of civilians to defend Islam can not be justified, 13 percent say they can be, at least rarely.
That sentiment is strongest among those younger than 30. Two percent ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
For those who still believe that these radical Islamo-Fascists hate and attack us because we are "over there," time to think again. From FoxNews:
Christians in a Pakistani town beset by pro-Taliban militants sought government protection Wednesday, the eve of a deadline for them to convert to Islam or face ...
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
San Fran Nan is at it again, this time looking at suing the president should he use a signing statement on proposed legislation that would provide needed funding for the troops.
According to a report on the Hill:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is threatening to take President Bush to court ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
A terrorist ring operating in New Jersey has been arrested; their plan to attack Fort Dix, posing as pizza delivery guys in order to kill as many soldiers as possible has been thwarted. This was a good day for America, and a bad day for the terrorists.
All six of ...
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Looks like the Party of Surrender is having difficulty getting it's plan for "Terrorist Victory Day" set into motion. President Bush rightfully vetoed the bill calling for withdrawal of troops from Iraq beginning Oct. 1, 2007. The Democrats also lack sufficient support to override the veto.
The end result ...
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
In spite of all of the violence that has been transpiring in Iraq as of late, there may be one bit of good news as it is being reported that Zarqawi's successor, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been killed by a competing Sunni faction. According to the piece on FoxNews, ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
According to this FoxNews article, the Democrats in Congress are pushing hard to make Oct. 1 "Terrorist Victory Day." Unlike previous victory days, like "Victory in Europe" where the U.S. and our allies were victorious over our enemies, "Terrorist Victory Day" will commemorate the date that al-Qaeda and other ...
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