War On Terror
Thursday, October 01, 2009
By
Carrick
on October 1, 2009 at 05:50 am
This article describes to the core the the rot within the State Department and the Obama administration and his internal thrust. Liberals (to some degree accurately) accuse Bush of neglecting…...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
By
Rob
on September 15, 2009 at 10:17 am
What do we do about Afghanistan?(trends) It’s amazing what a change in Presidents will do to the politics of war. Back when George W. Bush was the commander-in-chief the lines…...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
By
Rob
on June 16, 2009 at 09:00 am
There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the closing of Chrysler dealerships, and it looks like that controversy may have landed in my back yard here in North Dakota. According…...
Monday, April 27, 2009
By
Rob
on April 27, 2009 at 08:16 am
Over the weekend, the Associated Press reported that some 110,600 Iraqis have died since the US invasion in 2003. That’s a high, tragic number that will no doubt have the…...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
By
Rob
on April 21, 2009 at 08:53 pm
Which speaks volumes about where Obama’s priorities lay: WASHINGTON (CNN) – In a previously undisclosed private memo, President Obama’s intelligence director told colleagues that enhanced interrogation techniques used by the…...
Monday, April 13, 2009
By
Rob
on April 13, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Obama has long been sensitive to claims that the troops liked Bush more than him (as illustrated by this comparison of the reaction of US Marines to Obama and Bush…...
By
Rob
on April 13, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Anyone familiar with Forum opinion editor Jack Zaleski’s frequent rantings on the pages of his dying ivory tower circular is usually prepared for the Sunday morning screeds Zaleski is fond…...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
By
Rob
on March 25, 2009 at 11:27 am
Remember, now that Obama’s President it’s not a war any more. In the first two months of this year 19 U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq, down from 148 in…...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
By
Rob
on March 24, 2009 at 04:47 pm
How…Orwellian. The end of the Global War on Terror—or at least the use of that phrase—has been codified at the Pentagon. Reports that the phrase was being retired have been…...
Monday, March 23, 2009
By
Rob
on March 23, 2009 at 05:20 pm
Here in North Dakota, a state where coal and oil are very important, is concerned about cap and trade. For obvious reasons. Obama himself has said that cap and trade…...
Friday, March 13, 2009
By
Rob
on March 13, 2009 at 01:50 pm
Of course, they still want to murder us for being infidels, but that’s not important. What’s important is that we aren’t calling them “enemy combatants” any more. Oh, and by…...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
By
Rob
on March 10, 2009 at 02:52 pm
Obama’s nominee for the head of the National Intelligence Council, the very controversial Chas Freeman, has withdrawn his nomination. I’d tell you how many flopped nominations that makes for Obama,…...
Sunday, March 08, 2009
By
Rob
on March 8, 2009 at 10:37 am
The only reason why this can be happening right now without risking stability in Iraq is because Bush went ahead and won the war when all the media/left could talk…...
Monday, March 02, 2009
By
Rob
on March 2, 2009 at 02:46 pm
Good thing Obama didn’t ask Stephen Harper for more troops while he was up in Canada. Remember way back in the early days of the Obama administration when the president…...
Friday, February 27, 2009
By
Rob
on February 27, 2009 at 04:15 pm
More of that bi-partisanship and unity Obama is famous for: Despite touting the military’s victories in Iraq during his Friday speech in North Carolina, Obama isn’t prepared to declare the…...
Thursday, February 26, 2009
By
Rob
on February 26, 2009 at 08:33 am
Remember how Obama said he was going to cut the budget deficit by decreasing spending on Iraq? Well to date, in nearly six years, we’ve spent just over $600 billion…...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
By
Rob
on February 24, 2009 at 03:20 pm
Over the last few years the debate over the war in Iraq has focused around how it should end. Proponents of the war felt that it should end based on…...
Sunday, February 22, 2009
By
Rob
on February 22, 2009 at 11:39 am
That’s what the Washington Post is claiming in this article headlined “From Captive To Suicide Bomber.” A little more than two years after his release from the Guantanamo Bay military…...
Saturday, February 21, 2009
By
Rob
on February 21, 2009 at 08:29 am
Hope and change! Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge their detention, the US says. The justice department ruled that some 600…...
Monday, February 02, 2009
By
Rob
on February 2, 2009 at 03:14 pm
Over the weekend Fox reported that Obama had requested 10% reductions in Pengtagon budgets from the joint chiefs of staff. But now Congressional Quarterly is reporting almost exactly the opposite:…...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
By
Rob
on January 28, 2009 at 10:52 pm
No thanks to Obama or the Democrats: BAGHDAD — Thousands of soldiers, police officers, hospital patients and prisoners cast ballots on Wednesday as part of early voting in Iraq’s provincial…...
Saturday, January 24, 2009
By
Rob
on January 24, 2009 at 06:22 am
Yesterday Obama signed an executive order to close down the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay (despite never having actually, you know, visited the facility). Today we learn that a…...
Friday, January 23, 2009
By
Rob
on January 23, 2009 at 01:12 pm
Which is a headline written to make you think that this guy is angry that they’re still in Iraq, but the reality is that this commander thinks his troops can…...
Friday, January 16, 2009
By
Rob
on January 16, 2009 at 09:18 am
Hopefully Obama’s first term in office will be his only term in office and The One’s backpedal on one of the issues he was loudest about during the campaign may…...
By
Rob
on January 16, 2009 at 08:23 am
One of the constant cries from the left about Bush’s efforts in the war on terror had to do with Osama bin Laden not getting captured. Obama himself promised during…...
Monday, December 01, 2008
By
Rob
on December 1, 2008 at 08:27 am
Listening to Obama announce his foreign policy team today I heard him say that he will soon be giving our military a “new mission,” and that mission will be to…...
Monday, October 06, 2008
By
Rob
on October 6, 2008 at 06:42 am
Ouch. I think McCain’s hitting on Democrats for voting against funding for Iraq is a particularly good point. Obama has defended himself by pointing out that the Iraq funding was…...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
By
Rob
on October 1, 2008 at 08:09 am
Damning stuff: Obama’s been wrong on Iraq. Most of the Democrat party has been wrong on Iraq. Most of the reporters in the media have been wrong on Iraq. But…...
Saturday, September 27, 2008
By
Rob
on September 27, 2008 at 02:16 pm
Perhaps the surest sign that things are going well in Iraq is that the Democrat-controlled Congress, unlike previous years that didn’t even feature an impending election, isn’t interested in a…...
Monday, September 15, 2008
By
Rob
on September 15, 2008 at 07:26 am
Barack Obama trying to delay progress in Iraq that’s inconvenient for his campaign and his stances on Iraq as an issue? I’m shocked. WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy…...
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