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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Our Soldiers As Victims

When does the left/media care about the treatment of our soldiers and vets?  When they can turn our soldiers/vets into victims to be used as so much political propaganda against…...

Thursday, September 27, 2007

When You Can’t Find A Witness, Just Quote Yourself

Good grief… U.S. fire scatters crowd after Afghan bomb: witness By Noor Mohammad Sherzai BATI KOT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least one U.S. soldier opened fire to scatter a crowd…...

Navy To Spend $600,000 To Alter Barracks That Looks Like Swastika

I posted on this a couple of years ago. CORONADO, Calif. - The Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks complex that resembles a swastika…...

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Air Force Personnel Involved With Nuke Mishap In Minot Being Murdered?

That’s what some group called Citizens for Legitimate Government is claiming: Since the Minot story broke a week ago about the missing nukeclandestine operation from Minot, we have the following…...

25 Democrats Vote Against Resolution Expressing Support For General Petraeus

Stop and consider that for a moment.  Twenty-five sitting Senators, one of whom is running for President, voting against mere support for the general the Senate voted unanimously to appoint…...

Democrats Lose On Iraq Again

For all the hype about how unpopular the war in Iraq is and how unpopular the President is, Democrats sure can’t seem to get the support they need to actually…...

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Washington Post Fact Checks Fred Thompson By Whitewashing The Soviets

The Washington Post is fact checking this claim from Fred Thompson: You know, you look back over our history, and it doesn’t take you long to realize that our people…...

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Now That Hillary’s Calling General Petraeus A Liar Is Proving Unpopular…

...she’d like to go on record with how much she admires him. Hillary said this to General Petraeus during his testimony before Congress: “You have been made the de facto…...

Thursday, September 13, 2007

US Troops Capture 80 Terrorists, 4 Considered To Be Senior Leaders

They also found a major weapons cache. BAGHDAD, Sept. 13 (UPI)—Al-Qaida militants in Iraq have taken heavy losses in two joint U.S.-Iraqi raids north of Baghdad, the U.S. military reported…...

Troops In Iraq Echo Petraeus

The boots on the ground are lining up behind their general: At this wind-swept base near the Iranian border, the main points of Gen. David Petraeus’ testimony to Congress were…...

Monday, September 10, 2007

General David Petraeus’ Force Reductions Plan

From General Petraeus’ testimony before Congress (full transcript in extended entry): ...later this month, the Marine Expeditionary Unit deployed as part of the surge will depart Iraq. Beyond that, if…...

Democrats Give Petraeus Insulting Reception In Congress

Good grief... Gen Petraeus was given a tough reception by Tom Lantos, the Democratic chairman of the foreign relations committee, who said: “The administration has sent you here to tell…...

Sunday, September 09, 2007

The Soldiers Who Don’t Want To Come Home

We don’t hear nearly enough from these folks, who easily comprise a majority of the troops on the ground: Specialist Emmitt Delong’s wife has cancer but he has not asked…...

Hillary: It Doesn’t Matter How Well The War Is Going, Let’s Give Up

Just another step in the left’s push to trivialize reports from Iraq by officials like General Petraeus and push for defeat in the war anyway. CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Sen.…...

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Democrats Outraged About Troops Being Informed Of Their Positions On The War

Factual information about the political statements of politicians being distributed to the troops?  That’s outrageous! The sheets of paper seemed to be everywhere the lawmakers went in the Green Zone,…...

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Another Marine To Sue Murtha

This makes two. If Marine Col. Jeffrey Chessani is exonerated of the charges against him he may haul Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman John Murtha, into court, suing him for libel, one…...

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Military Looking At Withdrawal Plans For Iraq

This probably isn’t as significant as it sounds. WASHINGTON - U.S. military officials are narrowing the range of Iraq strategy options and appear to be focusing on reducing the U.S.…...

Friday, August 17, 2007

Coalition Deaths In Iraq Hit “Gloomy Milestone” Of 4,000

Of course, that low number makes the war in Iraq the least bloody major military conflict our armed forces have ever been involved.  For what we’ve accomplished in Iraq, and…...

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Poll: Majority Of Americans “Don’t” Trust Petraeus’ Iraq Report

Call me crazy, but shouldn’t that say “won’t”?  Given that the report isn’t even out yet? There’s been all sorts of speculation about what Petraeus’ report to Congress about Iraq…...

Suicide Rates Among Soldiers Highest In Nearly Three Decades

Meet the left-wing talking point of the year: Army soldiers committed suicide last year at the highest rate in 26 years, and more than a quarter did so while serving…...

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Early Word On Petraeus’ September Report: Pullbacks

Yet another bit of heartening news out of Iraq, if true: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. commander in Iraq will recommend pulling U.S. troops out of some areas where…...

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

A Small Miracle

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Saturday, August 11, 2007

New Republic Editors A Bunch Of Lying Liars

From The New Republic’s latest defense of the Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy: Although the Army says it has investigated Beauchamp’s article and has found it to be false, it has…...

Monday, August 06, 2007

Scott Thomas Beauchamp Recanted His Stories To Military Investigators

And he did it before The New Republic published their defense of the stories and Beauchamp’s statement about standing behind everything he’d written: THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a…...

“Burned Contractor In Kuwait” Story Isn’t Working Out For TNR Either

From Bob Owens: Adding to the debunking of The New Republic’s new claim that “burned contractor” story took place in Kuwait before PV-2 Scott Thomas Beauchamp deployed into a combat…...

Saturday, August 04, 2007

Not One Member Of Scott Thomas Beauchamp’s Company Can Substantiate His Claims

This directly from a Public Affairs Officer for General David Petraeus: To your question: Were there any truth to what was being said by Thomas? Answer: An investigation of the…...

Friday, August 03, 2007

All Allegations In New Republican/Scott Thomas Articles Demonstrably False

According to the officials with Army Public Affairs. ...

Monday, July 30, 2007

A Reenlistment Seen ‘Round The World

Loyalty, honor and determination defined: SAN DIEGO — Marine Cpl. Gareth Hawkins extended his enlistment to go on a third deployment to Iraq so his battalion would not be left…...

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Military Deaths Bush Vs. Clinton, Redux

I noticed an interesting gripe coming from freelance writer Ed Brayton over at his blog Dispatches from the Culture Wars.  Brad claims that the “latest conservative meme” he’s been “hearing…...

Friday, July 27, 2007

Pat Tillman Murdered Because He Was About To Become Anti-War Hero?

That’s what Democrat Wesley Clark thinks (his interview starts at about 1:13 in): He essentially says that if Tillman was killed deliberately the orders “came from the top” and manages…...

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