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Much as I said he would do months ago, today, Barack Obama held not one, but, two news conferences to announce that he’s reconsidering his plan to cut and run in Iraq. Obama previously stated a firm plan to completely withdraw troops within 16 months of taking office. A few weeks ago, that was “revised” […]

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By Nathan Webster
The Long War Journal
Nathan Webster is an independent journalist who embedded with the US Army in Tarmiyah in Salahadin province, Iraq. Nathan is providing reports from Tarmiyah for The Long War Journal.
TARMIYAH, IRAQ: Iraqi children play afternoon soccer in the dusty field almost directly below the rooftop positions of Checkpoint 121, a sign […]

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Over the weekend, McCain and Obama attended a conference of Latino voters. In an effort to pander for votes, both of them once again called for “comprehensive immigration reform.” McCain proposed legislation a couple years ago, co-written with Ted Kennedy, which would have granted illegal aliens amnesty as well as Social Security benefits. Conservatives and […]

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I just got a heads-up on the repost of “Is America at War?” by Mitch Lewis that’s on the American Infidel Blog. It’s a great essay on our soldiers point of view regarding the War in Iraq and Afghanistan (that is mostly won, BTW!) and the greater War on Terrorism, that will be ongoing, […]

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“They killed innocent civilians in cold blood…”
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Posted: 22 Jun 2008 03:46 PM CDT
By J. D. Pendry
Two years ago I wrote an article titled On Your Hands. I wrote it on the same day that I received in my email internet photographs of the mutilated bodies of Private First Class Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston and […]

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By William Kristol
New York Times
The people at MoveOn.org have a new Iraq ad that is, if they do say so themselves, their most effective ever. Then again, for the group that brought us the “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” ad last September, that might not be saying much.
Nevertheless, the organization boasts on its […]

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Who said “moral relativism” is dead in America?
America has been turned upside down by poor leadership, lobbyist, elitist corporations, subjective courts, criminal elements posing as United States elected politicians, lawyers, and others. The brains in America has clearly reached the sewer.
I am struck by interest groups, legal foundations, courts, politicians, corporations, that seem to […]

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By Charles Krauthammer
TownHall.com
WASHINGTON — Gas is $4 a gallon. Oil is $135 a barrel and rising. We import two-thirds of our oil, sending hundreds of billions of dollars to the likes of Russia, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. And yet we voluntarily prohibit ourselves from even exploring huge domestic reserves of petroleum and natural gas.
At […]

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June 19, 2008, 7:00 a.m.
National Review Online
In November 2005, the Marine Corps reported that a number of civilians had been killed in Haditha by an improvised explosive device (IED) that also killed Marine Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, and that eight insurgents were killed in the ensuing firefight.
But in March of 2006, Time ran a […]

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Remember this …

Murtha’s Betrayal

I’ll never forget it.

There’s great news though!!!

From CBS News
A military judge has dismissed charges against a Marine officer accused of failing to investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis.
Col. Steven Folsom dismissed charges Tuesday against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani after defense attorneys raised concerns that a four-star general overseeing the prosecution was improperly […]

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