davidl on September 24th, 2007

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So Senator Clinton favors beginning the withdrawal of U.S. troops, but refuses to commit to a full drawdown before January, 2013. She is therefore leaving the door open to keeping U.S. troops in Iraq for approximately 10 years–depending on the

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davidl on September 22nd, 2007

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We don’t choose to lose

John McCain

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Eric Florack on September 21st, 2007

I wrote earlier this monring about how there is a split in the Democrat party.  Tell me that this note from Hume doesn’t show us exactly that:

Virginia Democratic Congressman Jim Moran is getting slammed by fellow House Democrats over

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Eric Florack on September 21st, 2007

Here we go again, with more indication of a serious split in the Democratic party.

This time, TPM’s Election Central is reporting:

The GOP-introduced resolution condemning MoveOn just passed by a huge margin, 72-25. Roughly half the Democrats in

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Eric Florack on September 20th, 2007

A rather startling comment from Jawa Report, this morning:

We won the war, so Iraqis have finally come to believe. Only on the streets of Europe and America is there really a question over “if” we can win.

Again:

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davidl on September 16th, 2007

Susan EstrichOk, I bash Susan Estrich a lot.   What can I say.  She deserves it.   However all cows must have their day, and this is Susan’s.    The ‘rats have a problem and his name is General David Petraeus,    Read her entire

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davidl on September 16th, 2007

Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters, pins his finger on al Qaeda’s problem:

The leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq will never run short on enemies, mostly because they hate everybody. Today they issued a statement declaring war on the Sunni tribes

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2007

I got a rather annoying note in mail this morning, complaining about the frequency with which MSNBC was replaying the tapes from 9/11.

Right now MSNBC is re-running NBC’s coverage from the attacks of 9-11. The whole thing. Look a

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2007

Speaking of corruption and the Democrats, I see The New Republic has taken it in the ear again.  and the denizens of The New Republic are well into their “duck and cover” routines.  I’m guessing that they are hitting the

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davidl on September 11th, 2007

Ralph PetersIn the New York Post,
Ralph Peters asks, “Listen to the General:

Politically terrified by positive developments in Iraq, Democrats are trying to explain them away preemptively. Premature Iraqulator Sen. Charles Schumer even resorted to outright lies

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Eric Florack on September 10th, 2007

I’ve spent the day, reading over some of the reaction to the testimony of General Petraeus, after listening to the testimony itself, once they figured out how to get the mikes working again.  (I’ll bet there hangs a tale.  )

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Eric Florack on September 10th, 2007

The Weekly Standard notes something which should amaze nobody… particularly nobody’s that’s been reading here the last several days.:

Tomorrow–as General David Petraeus provides his Iraq assessment to Congress–the antiwar group MoveOn.org is running a full-page advertisement in the New

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Eric Florack on September 7th, 2007

Phil Brennen at News Max:

A video taped from a Scan Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle purported to show the action that took place in Haditha when 24 Iraqi civilians and insurgents were killed was heavily edited by government investigators, a

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davidl on August 31st, 2007

Robert McFadden, New York Times, reports on Saddam Hussein’s illegal war material found at the United Nations.

No unconventional weapons were found in Iraq after the United States-led invasion in 2003. But a potentially deadly chemical agent produced by

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davidl on August 31st, 2007

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Sliming’s New Meaning, Apparently, Is When You’re Quoted Accurately

I understand lefty bloggers are quite bothered by this story in the Washington Post, with the eye-catching headline, “Lawmakers Describe ‘Being Slimed in the Green Zone’

Jim Geraghty, National Review

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