Greenwald: Dealing From Half a Deck

It is amazing to me how often Glenn Greenwald can trip over his own tounge and still be convinced he’s smarter than everyone else. This one’s going to require some background.

As Bruce McQuain noted the other day, the

An interesting discussion has popped up over that bombing of a nuclear target in Syria by Israel. One instance of this was at Hot Air:

Why did Israel hit the reactor now if they were comfortable enough with it for

So, Carl Levin is trying to cut the funding for the Iraq war.

Why?

He’s trying to get the President to “change course” in Iraq.

He knows, as do all Americans by now, that real progress is being made there. 

I remarked the other day that the best sign that the Democrats were in serious trouble, was that they were fighting amongst themselves.  Maggie Michael at AP, passes along that AlQaida is doing the same:

CAIRO, Egypt -(AP)- Al-Qaida sympathizers

Rob over at Say Anything, yesterday, points to facts the left doesn’t want you to know:

Weird…

U.S. combat troop deaths and other violence in Iraq are down significantly in some of the most dangerous places of insurgent

So, Carl Levin is trying to cut the funding for the Iraq war.

Why?

He’s trying to get the President to “change course” in Iraq.

He knows, as do all Americans by now, that real progress is being made there. 

The L.A. Times this morning is reporting we’re dealing with cases of arson :

Amid worries of new blazes adding to the firestorm already afflicting the region, a man in Hesperia has been arrested on suspicion of arson, and police

Megan McArdle:

Ezra and Brian are complaining that it’s hard to get anything done these days:

I think it’s almost certainly wrong that we’re not overwhelmed by the volume of tragedy in the world — there’d have to be something

RAIDS RESULT IN CAPTURE OF SUSPECTED AL QAEDA LEADERS

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 06:20 AM CDT

RAIDS RESULT IN CAPTURE OF SUSPECTED AL QAEDA LEADERS

TWO MILITANTS KILLED IN FIRE FIGHT WITH COALITION FORCES

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 06:13 AM

LIBERTY —(Houston Chronicle) To Jeremy Burris the word “liberty” was more than the name of his hometown. It was something worth fighting for.An all-American kid from a little all-American town, the 22-year-old Marine lance corporal died heroically in Iraq. More

Glenn Reynolds:

“Violence in Iraq has dropped by 70 percent since the end of June, when U.S. forces completed their build-up of 30,000 extra troops…”

According to the Iraq Interior Ministry.

And bin Laden pipes up and tells his people

I note with some interest today that Michael Yon has released another one of his columns from Iraq.

America seems to be under a glass dome which allows few hard facts from the field to filter in unless they are

Scott over at PowerLine speaking of the Rush Limbaugh smear letter signed by 41 Democrats in the United States Senate, and the New York Times artcile on the subject

The auction of the letter for the benefit of the Marine

John Zogby of Zogby International, who has been working awfully hard way to lose credibility of late, has decided to inform us of the most recent poll he’s run, which suggests that over half of America would not vote for

Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters, remarking about Neil Gabler showing us a little class:

Here’s the partial transcript of this unbelievable moment in television history from Saturday’s “Fox News Watch” (h/t Hot Air, video available here):

I