Is Al Qaeda Auto-demobilizing?

The Times (UK) is  reporting al Qaeda “rebellion from the ranks:”

Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off a person’s face with piano wire to teach others a lesson, dozens of low-level members of

Dogfighting is barbaric. But I wish more senators could get worked up about the enemy’s barbarism in this war we’re necessarily fighting.  So worked up, say, that retreat could not be considered an option. 

Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO.

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Washington, D.C. (July 16)-Veterans of the Iraq War from across the United States will be on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, July 17, to urge Senators to support the mission in Iraq and to wait until General Petraeus reports to

So, Dingy Harry Reid is trying a publicity stint. Fox’s Major Garrett:

Speaking on the Senate floor, Reid said Iraq is the most important issue facing the United States and attempts to block legislation calling for troops to be withdrawn

Look, let’s say this up front… Jim Webb is a blinking squint of an idiot.

here we have a Democrat, trying to do the bidding of this party, by not supporting the troops in the field of battle.  You’d think

If Congressman [Okinawa Jack] Murtha does not personally apologize to the Hilo Company Marines for his intemperate, false and unsupported charges for his own partisan advantage before Congress recesses, upon its return every single member of Congress should be demanding

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga a.k.a. Daily Kos, having promoted Mrs. Cindy Sheehan as an absolute moral authority, now rejects her.

Mrs. Sheehan has posted this message on Kos:

I can’t post here anymore because my potential run for Congress

Mrs,  Sheehan’s friend at Right Wing News, John Hawkins, has been kind enough to produce a second campaign video for her.  Let us all give Mrs. Sheehan the kind of support she deserves.

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Allah Pundit, Hot Air, has the John  Gibson interview with Bill Kristol.. Salty language,  Now having been warned, go read and hear.

Boortz this morning:

Western intelligence is confirming it … the mullahs of Iran are, indeed, linked to al Queda. Iran is being used as a base for terrorists. These terrorists then go into Iraq and kill Iraqis and Americans,

I saw this post from Michael Yon, earlier today, and had no words for it. It is, the reality of what we’re up against.  Cold, hard, brutal.  It’s a reality that many in our country don’t want to face.

David Horowitz is just on fire, here.

When he was in office and responsible for protecting us, Al Gore was absent from the war on terror. As Vice President, he was part of an administration that failed to respond to

Michelle Malkin:

There’s rioting over gas rationing in Iran. Bloggers covering the turmoil here , here, and here. Iran is blaming-who else?-the U.S. for the unrest.

Of course.  After all, when you limit yourself to the luxuries available

It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet

The Democrats have been attempting to make a good deal of mileage out of “the surge isn’t working”, and so I have some other people.  Meantime, we have held our peace here, waiting for the last troops to be deployed,