Senator Obama this morning said that he wants a foreign policy that is “tough, smart, and principled.” This afternoon, I ask: was it tough when Senator Obama voted to order U.S. forces to retreat from Iraq on a fixed timeline—regardless
James at OTB:
Michael Yon says that we’ve won the war in Iraq and all that remains is clean-up.
I tell James:
Do not be fooled. There are a number of people who have been leaning toward this false hope
From the GateWay Pundit:
New information reveals that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was indirectly sending messages to the FARC. The Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is designated as a terrorist group by the US government. Speaker Pelosi was
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A few years ago, the Canadian recording group “the Poppy Family” came up with a hit in “Which Way you going, Billy?” Written by Terry Jacks, (He of “Seasons in the Sun” fame, the top40 cover of Rod McKuen’s poetry)
Marie Colvin at The London Times, reports on troop movements and successes in Iraq. Of course nobody in the domestic press has bothered to notice, since apparently success isn’t the picture the domestic mainstream media has decided it wants
Bluto is working a story that I admit only loosely following. It doesn’t quote cleanly, so I’ll have you go read the thing.
The update gives a nifty tease:
The New York Sun’s editorial board notes that Rockefeller deliberately manipulated
There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal the other day, and it made some good points. Ultimately, it suggested (as many others have) that 6 years after the debate to invade Iraq began, it’s more important to
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I see See-Dubya is watching the endorsement list. Maybe I ought to as well, if they’re mostly as amusing as this:
Dan Boren from Oklahoma’s second district-“Little Dixie”-seems more than a bit agnostic about the Obamessiah, whom he dubs the
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A great article in the Weekly Standard, today, by Thomas Joscelyn that should put to rest all the naysaysers about how involved Saddam was in terror. He lists several points of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s so called “phase two report”
- Been getting downright crazy traffic the last couple months, and none of it bigger than the last week or so. No particular reason I can see. Usually when we get traffic spikes it’s due to one article or another that
- You really have to wonder what motivates people sometimes, when you see stories like this one.
- But… Obama could no more disown his church, than he could disown his…. Oh.. Wait. Never mind.
- Of Hamburgers, food police, and such.
- I
Mark I, Redstate, has BO’s newest line on Iraq:
The real story here is that Obama has no interest in what is really happening in Iraq, unless it fits his predetermined view that the war is lost. The message
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1952, Dwight David Eisenhower:
Ike went to Korea. The fighting stopped.
2008, Barack Hussien Obama, rejects John McCain’s proposal that they both go to Iran, From the BO campaign, via Jim Geraghty, National Review.
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As we expected, Obama has rejected McCain’s proposal that they go to Iraq together. Hot Air makes note of this and says:
Even more amusing than Maverick’s savviness in forcing this choice on him is TPM straining to spin it
- Fuel prices have had a small effect on the amount of travel over the weekend, though not as much as they apparently figured on. The difference amounts to about 1% less than last year. The problem with judging how