Negotiate What?

Yesterday, I pointed out that there was a major shift in Democrat talking points over Iran and it’s threat to the west.

Today, I note something else… that perhaps even the Democrats have not noted.

For years, now, we’ve been

We know what Mr. Bush said… I posted the quote here yesterday:

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” Bush said at

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” Bush said at Israel’s 60th anniversary celebration in Jerusalem.

“We have heard this foolish delusion

McQ:

Many are taking the following quote of John McCain as an indication that one of the primary motivations for Iraq was oil.

MMmmpppffh.

If oil was the reason we went to war, then we might consider the Iraq war

MANHATTAN, Kan. —(AP) CIA Director Michael Hayden said Wednesday that Iranian policy, at the highest government level, is to help kill Americans in Iraq, the boldest pronouncement of Iranian involvement by a U.S. official to date.

Hayden made the statement

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright now says he was quoting the Iraqi ambassador when he made his famous “chickens are coming home to roost” comments after the September 11 attacks.

Apparently he meant the U.S. ambassador to Iraq because during that

In watching the developments in the Middle East, these last few months I have to tell you that Iran is likely to be our next stop militarily. I do not believe this to be a choice of ours, but rather

BAGHDAD —FOX- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.

Rice, in

John Hawkins over at Right Wing News has an interesting interview up with Will Breazeale, who is an Iraqi vet running for Congress.  In the interview, Breazeale tells an interesting story regarding Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer;

“I was a

Austin Bay, who I quote far too little:

Realclearpolitics.com featured last week’s Creators Syndicate newspaper column and the gents at Powerline commented. As the column attests, I saw the Basra and east Baghdad counter-militia operations very differently from the

WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats plan to push legislation this spring that would force the Iraqi government to spend its own surplus in oil revenues to rebuild the country, sparing U.S. dollars.The legislation follows a recommendation by Gen. David Petraeus,

Fox is reporting:

A U.S. official confirmed to FOX News Wednesday that Al Qaeda operative and bomb expert Abu Ubaida al-Masri is dead.

Al-Masri was one of the top 10 Al Qaeda leaders and was responsible for the organization’s external

Hume, last night:

If you had any doubt that insurgents in Iraq are aware of the political seasons here in the U.S., consider this: New data from the Defense Intelligence Agency shows that enemy initiated attacks during the entire course

Jed Babbin, Human Events, makes his predictions on tommorow’s Senate Armed Service Committee hearing:

Tomorrow is Hillary’s Last Stand. She will prove her military expertise is no better than Custer’s was. And he didn’t fib about being under fire

Word this morning from the London Times that Iran had forces on the ground at Basra:

IRANIAN forces were involved in the recent battle for Basra, General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, is expected to tell Congress this