Michael Yon: We Won Iraq
Friday, November 14th, 2008Michael Yon: We Won Iraq
We won. No thanks to the Democrats.
A U.S. Military Operation Inside Syria?
Sunday, October 26th, 2008HotAir has all the information.
Bill Roggio says:
If the raid occurred, the US military must have detected a senior member of al Qaeda in Iraq in the region. Abu Ayyub al Masri, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, is reported to have left the country earlier this year after the terror group lost its sanctuaries in Diyala province.
The US military may be closing in on al Qaeda’s senior leadership. US forces killed Abu Qaswarah, al Qaeda in Iraq’s second in command, during a raid in Mosul in northern Iraq on Oct. 15. The military has also killed and captured numerous al Qaeda leader and couriers over the past several weeks. The information obtained during these raids help to paint a picture of al Qaeda’s command structure inside of of Iraq as well as in neighboring countries.
It occurs to me that life doesn’t stop just because there’s an American election. I wonder how much foreign fighters have thought they can get away with because the election is distracting or they don’t believe the President would risk being aggressive. This supposition is assuming the reports are true.
So Obama Interferes With American Diplomacy While On His Glory Tour
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008It’s not treason. It’s the Obamessiah.
Dan Reihl has more and says:
Then we also have this outrageous sideshow that borders on, if not crosses over into what’s treasonous by Obama, particularly as he was working to ensure that a maximum number of troops remained at risk throughout the Fall campaign for his political benefit. Not only is it not the place of a Jr. Senator to displace the entire Executive Branch at time of war, what Obama really wanted to ensure was that Iraq would be a key point of discussion during the Fall campaign. He simply didn’t bank on our military succeeding as they have. As an aside, so far as I can tell, he still hasn’t even given them the credit for that they deserve. Given all that, that this self-serving empty suit fancies himself worthy of becoming CIC in January is a bitter joke the mainstream media seems prepared to perpetuate on the American people.
“Obviously, we can’t have US forces operating on the ground in Iraq without some sort of agreement, either a further extension of the UN resolution or some sort of Status of Forces agreement, some strategic framework agreement. As I said before, my concern is that the Bush administration — in a weakened state politically — ends up trying to rush an agreement that in some ways might be binding to the next administration, whether it was my administration or Sen. McCain’ s administration.” (Emphasis added.)
For contrast, imagine this: Imagine George W. Bush going to Bosnia and working on some agreements that would be in place after Bill Clinton left office. Would that be treason, then? And imagine even further: Do you think it would hit the press? Yes, I think it might.
Obama’s Off-Base Base
Sunday, September 7th, 2008Considering all the vile smears, stunning lies, and sheer stupidity of the recent attacks against Sarah Palin, it seems like it would be wise to pause and spend a little time getting inside the heads of those who 1) would believe such feather-brained nonsense and 2) breathlessly share the nonsense as if God-Himself revealed the “truth” on Mt. Obama.
Via StoptheACLU, I present this:
It should be noted that Republicans like trees. In fact, I live in a Houston suburb where the main attractions are two-fold–trees and conservative values. Interestingly, though, these people also have better things to do with their time then go to a remote forest and emote over fallen trees.
Barack Obama hims and haws when interviewed. It is difficult for him to give a straight answer like, “I was wrong about the surge. It worked just as well as John McCain imagined it would”, because to do so would tee off his base. He has to be for the troops but against any battlefield the troops might be fighting on. He has to be for energy independence but against any form of energy independence which maybe could possibly harm the environment (which is to say all of them). He has to be for a strong economy but also for stupid environmental policy which would send the economy in a death spiral.
See why it’s so hard to be Obama? He has to cater to ever fruit and nut around the country or risk losing the devote followers who will psychotically print, do and say anything to support the Obamessiah’s presidential bid.
Ultimately, Obama ends up looking like a floundering politician beholden to nutters. Which, he is.
Yearning For Afghanistan
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Learning to brush teeth in Afghanistan.
Oops! This was an Afghani soldier:
Afghani soldier with children
Iraq must be doing better because even the AP indirectly acknowledges it:
Spc. Grover Gebhart has spent nine months at a small post on a Sunni-Shiite fault line in western Baghdad. But the 21-year-old soldier on his first tour in Iraq feels he’s missing the real war — in Afghanistan, where his brother is fighting the Taliban.
Military officials say violence in Iraq is at its lowest point in the past four years.
With violence in Iraq at its lowest level in four years and the war in Afghanistan at a peak, the soldiers serving at patrol station Maverick say Gebhart’s view is increasingly common, especially among younger soldiers looking to prove themselves in battle.
“I’ve heard it a lot since I got here,” said 2nd Lt. Karl Kuechenmeister, a 2007 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point who arrived in Iraq about a week ago.
The reporter goes on to report that only the newbies want to go back, but since anecdotes are news, I have some of my own. I corresponded via email from a soldier yesterday who was talking about serving again after taking a break after serving in Iraq. He wants to go to Afghanistan now:
And yeah, I am going back because it is getting worse. I want to do what I can to help the country. When I saw the glee in the little girls eyes when they got comic books and crayons etc after years of being refused such things, I just needed to help anyway I could.
A seasoned soldier (and if I can get his permission, I’ll use his name since he blogs, too) wants to go back and fight to help people in a 3rd world country have what we have in America. It is absolutely humbling to know that thousands of American men and women are actively choosing to serve not just America’s interests, but those of the less fortunate in the world fighting for freedom. Amazing.
Cross-posted at Right Wing News
