Perhaps It Doesn’t Take a Village?

Ouch….

BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq’s embattled prime minister lashed out at American critics Sunday, saying Sen. Hillary Clinton and other Democrats who have called for his ouster should “come to their senses” and stop treating Iraq like “one of their

Email from several sources:

Regardless of where you stand on the issue of the U.S. involvement in Iraq, here’s a sobering statistic: There has been a monthly average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last

Douglas Hanson over at the American Thinker, this morning, raises some questions about a story I blogged about the other day:

Yesterday, AT relayed a report  from AdnKronos International that Saddam’s former deputy and current leader of the

Captain Ed notes:

Earlier today, the Italian news service AKI reported that the presumed leader of the largest insurgency in Iraq will start cooperating with the Iraqi government. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, one of the highest-ranking members of Saddam Hussein’s

[O]ur friends on the left side of the aisle loudly lament that America is seen as arrogant, a bully, an imperialist power meddling in the affairs of other countries… and then they turn around and tell the Iraqis who their

Jim Angle on Hume’s show, last night:

We’ve told you how the use of food crops for biofuels has driven up the prices for tortillas in Mexico, breakfast cereal in the U.S. and beer in Germany.

Now Spiegel Online reports

Fellow Rochester Rochester Blogger Chuck Simmins passes along a rather heartwarming story this morning about U.S. soldiers acting to save the life of a toddler who had fallen into a well.   Did we make any friends with this one, do

Continuing last night’s conversation with regards to “whoops, maybe we can win in Iraq, after all ” comes Hewitt with an interview with John Burns, he of the house organ of the democratic party, otherwise known as the New York

I was camping over a long weekend, and am just getting back up to speed.

I wondered how long this was going to take… Mchael O’Hanlon and Ken Pollack have posted a piece in the in the New York Times,

IRAQ WAR PUSHBACK ON THE WAY!

10,000+ To Take to Streets

Supporting Missions of Troops in Iraq

Above: Collage of photos from Move America Forward’s

past pro-troop national caravans.

STORY POSTED ONLINE HERE: http://www.moveamericaforward.org/index.php/MAF/MAFNews

(SACRAMENTO) – With General David Petraeus

At last, Pvt Beauchamp’s, a.k.a. Scott Thomas, ambitions are revealed.  Beauchamp wants to write military novels, just like Senator Jim Webb, Virginia.  From Jack Kelly, Real Clear Politics:

In a blog entry for May 8, 2006, Pvt. Beauchamp describes

Derb says at The Corner:

Jonah: Your argument on Iraq—basically, that, as some Secretary of State or other said, we broke it, so we oughta fix it—is nontrivial.  It lacks general appeal, though, and is probably a big vote-loser.

I

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