Eric Florack on April 3rd, 2008

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) – Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands, which remain in British hands after the 1982 war between the two countries, is “inalienable,” President Cristina Kirchner said Wednesday.

The sovereign claim to the Malvinas Islands is inalienable,” she

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Eric Florack on March 30th, 2008

Michelle notes that the charges against Lance Cpl Stephen Tatum have been dropped.

By the Marines… not by Democrat Jack Murtha, who accused the Marines of murdering people in cold blood.

Where’s Jack Murtha now?

Certainly, he is not where

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Eric Florack on March 30th, 2008

MSNBC is saying:

BAGHDAD – Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Sunday ordered his fighters off the streets nationwide and called on the government to stop raids against his followers and free them from prison.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued a

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davidl on March 28th, 2008

It is funny that while Mrs. Clinton has been claiming, albeit with rather dubious success, foreign poliicy experienc she simply does not have, she has not yet claimed experience she does have.   Mrs. Clinton meet with a spy for Saddam

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davidl on March 27th, 2008

Jim McDermottTreason defined, ‘Lectric Law Library:

TREASON – This word imports a betraying, treachery, or breach of allegiance.

The Constitution of the United States, Art. III, defines treason against the United States to consist only in levying war against them,

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Eric Florack on March 26th, 2008

The Washington Times, this morning:

Researchers at Harvard say that publicly voiced doubts about the U.S. occupation of Iraq have a measurable “emboldenment effect” on insurgents there.

Periods of intense news media coverage in the United States of criticism about

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Eric Florack on March 16th, 2008

Ed Morrissey:

John McCain took some time off of the campaign trail and hit the ground in Iraq this morning.  The media calls it a “surprise visit”, but he had given indications that he would visit Iraq after he clinched

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Eric Florack on March 15th, 2008

Barrack Obama, and a lot of the leftards like to lay the claim that

“There was no such thing as al-Qaida in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq. … They took their eye off the

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davidl on March 9th, 2008

Former Barack Obama adviser Samantha Power was resigned from the Obama campaign for calling Mrs. Clinton a monster.

Given, the Ciintons campaigned on a promise that a vote for one would get two and Mrs. Clinton has claimed foreign policy

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Eric Florack on March 7th, 2008

Just so you know, Iran is anything but unified behind Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.

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Eric Florack on March 6th, 2008

The Business in Venezuela is getting worse. Chavez has closed the Columbian border. AFP is reporting:

A crisis between three Latin American nations worsened Tuesday when Venezuela said it was closing its border with Colombia, even as frantic diplomatic talks

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davidl on March 5th, 2008

Gateway Pundit is reporting that FARC, a Columbia terrorist group, is rooting for Barack Obama  to be elected  President:

The FARC Terrorists were hoping and expecting that Barack Obama would win the US elections in November because he was most

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Eric Florack on March 1st, 2008

 

First, the premise, at OTB:

America’s top military leader is warning about rapid withdrawal from Iraq.

The Joint Chiefs chairman has a word of warning to Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton: A rapid of withdrawal from Iraq

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Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

The more the US wins in IRaq, the less the news covers it. That’s long been the supposition, and now Rich Noyes at NewsBusters confirms it, saying in part…

…the President’s surge strategy is well on its way to succeeding.

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Eric Florack on February 24th, 2008

By way of fellow Swamp Stomper, the Dread Pundit Bluto, And Breitbart, we see AFP offering up:

Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain Friday said he hoped Fidel Castro’s resignation would be followed by his speedy demise, and rapped

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