A Quick Withdrawal From Iraq: Dumb

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

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.

The Global War of Terror is fifteen years old today.   On February 26, 1993 Islamists attempted to destroy  the World Trade Center.    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review:

On the morning of February 26, 1993, Islamic militants steered a nondescript

Heh.

I no sooner make comment on how Bruce hasn’t been doing any of these of late at Q&O, and viola’, one shows up.

This time, the story related is of one Timothy Nein, A Staff Sgt with the 617th

McQ makes an excellent point about the Democrat debate the other night, and a line that Obama offered up:

In last night’s debate, Barack Obama, apparently wanting to get in the swing of sounding like the Commander-in-Chief, threw this little

• Billy
  

  “I’ve always believed that he’s the easier candidate to beat in the Fall.”

  (McPhillips: “Are The Clintons Over?”)

  I think his general position is correct: these people won’t be “over” until we see their boxes getting dropped into the

Mrs. Clinton’s last stand, via Byron York, National Review:

On a conference call, top strategist Mark Penn just told reporters that in the next two weeks Hillary Clinton will go after Barack Obama on the issue of who is

Little Green Footballs:

Unindicted Hamas co-conspirators CAIR have put out a press release targeting LGF: Hate Site Comments Suggest Violence Against Missouri Mosque.

UPDATE at 2/19/08 4:09:21 pm:

At Pat Dollard’s place, the Bashman has a few words for

Beef Recall: 

LOS ANGELES – (AP)-The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday recalled 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a Southern California slaughterhouse that is being investigated for mistreating cattle.

Danish Riots:

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Bands

Fox News Channel’s Jamie Colby has a new report up talking about the big showdown in Berkeley, CA tonight – TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH – when patriots from around the nation will hold an all-day pro-troop demonstration and protest against the

• John Hawkins points out MSNBC‘s David Shuster isn’t alone.
  

  We all know by now about the controversy surrounding MSNBC’s David Shuster and his allegation that Chelsea Clinton was being “pimped” by her family in order to drum up support

Me in email just now:

I don’t see it as those working against McCain as the ones selling out. Indeed, I see a vote for McCain as selling out both the party and the country. I fail utterly, to see

The media paints the myth of some sort of glorious political Camelot otherwise called the Kennedy Administration.   Those old enough to have survived it, or willing to read some history are more apt to associate Kennedy with the Bay of

Move America Forward – www.MoveAmericaForward.org – is calling on patriotic Americans from near and far to come to Berkeley, California and join us for a protest of the Berkeley City Council – in response to their recent efforts to silence

• Figures. Heaviest traffic day we’ve had in a month, and there’s an WordPress update to be done. I guess I’ll hold off on it until tomorrow, or perhaps the weekend, depending.
• Rained like crazy here this morning. We actually had