War On Terror
Thursday, July 03, 2008
By
Rob
on July 3, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Stupid in North Dakota: FARGO, North Dakota (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama waded into controversy on Thursday over his plans to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq, first…...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
By
Rob
on July 2, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Here’s a thought: If Iraq was an important story when things weren’t going as well as we’d like with the war (and you’ll get no argument from me saying that…...
Monday, June 30, 2008
By
Rob
on June 30, 2008 at 07:49 pm
Pathetic, no?
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By
Rob
on June 30, 2008 at 07:39 pm
This is from The New Yorker, not exactly a bastion of anti-Obama sympathies: In February, 2007, when Barack Obama declared that he was running for President, violence in Iraq had…...
Monday, June 23, 2008
By
Rob
on June 23, 2008 at 11:01 am
Gee, why wonder why America’s news media producers and editors aren’t interested in stories out of Iraq any more? According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who…...
By
Rob
on June 23, 2008 at 05:55 am
Yes. Europe of all places. And here you thought the international community was already in the bag for Obama. European officials are increasingly concerned that Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign pledge…...
Saturday, June 21, 2008
By
Rob
on June 21, 2008 at 09:21 pm
If even the New York Times is admitting that the surge in Iraq has brought progress on both the political and security fronts how much longer can Democrats, up to…...
Friday, June 20, 2008
By
Rob
on June 20, 2008 at 07:47 pm
Because she’s a criminal, though I can’t imagine how anyone could consider Stuart a threat to public safety. Meanwhile, the British taxpayers are giving welfare and housing subsidies to an…...
By
Rob
on June 20, 2008 at 09:40 am
Apparently Barack Obama had a phone call with Iraq’s foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari and Zebari wasn’t inclined to treat the liberal messiah like a messiah. SEN. BARACK OBAMA told Iraq’s…...
Thursday, June 19, 2008
By
Rob
on June 19, 2008 at 09:02 pm
I’m not enough of an expert on the oil markets to say what short-term impact this may have on prices at the pump, but long-term this is good news as…...
Monday, June 16, 2008
By
Rob
on June 16, 2008 at 04:15 pm
News that apparently wasn’t newsworthy here in America as we have to go all the way to Iraqi news organization Aswat al-Iraq to get the story: U.S. President George Bush…...
By
Rob
on June 16, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Except they didn’t, really. Obama, a former senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, cited “that principle of habeas corpus, that a state can’t just hold you for…...
By
Rob
on June 16, 2008 at 12:43 pm
You’ll remember that the Obama campaign previously called any suggestion that he visit Iraq a “political stunt.” With things going well in Iraq I guess it’s not so much a…...
By
Rob
on June 16, 2008 at 12:34 pm
This probably won’t change many minds since most who claim that Bush did lie us into a war with Iraq have reached that conclusion not by an objective analysis of…...
Sunday, June 15, 2008
By
Rob
on June 15, 2008 at 07:46 pm
He’s saying that a hasty withdrawal of US forces from Iraq would mean possibly losing all that we’ve gained in Iraq over the last couple of years. WASHINGTON, June 15…...
By
Rob
on June 15, 2008 at 11:57 am
A good question: [Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s desire for a long-term US/Iraq alliance] would seem to be an obvious U.S. gain in what, according to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)…...
By
Rob
on June 15, 2008 at 11:06 am
Clearly, Bush wants to go out with a bang. President George W Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves…...
Friday, June 13, 2008
By
Rob
on June 13, 2008 at 09:39 am
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
By
Rob
on June 11, 2008 at 01:29 pm
I mean, how dare McCain suggest that there may be other priorities in Iraq more important than the precipitous withdrawal of troops/abandonment of the Iraqi government we helped create! Much…...
By
Rob
on June 11, 2008 at 11:10 am
That’s right, this comes from the Guardian (not exactly a bastion of Bush administration sympathies or pro-Iraq war attitudes): Evidence of al-Qaida’s problems in Iraq is weighty and convincing. It…...
By
Rob
on June 11, 2008 at 10:16 am
After seven years of cowboy, is it really a good idea for Bush to go soft on foreign policy now? [Bush] recently told the London Times he regrets the tough…...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
By
Rob
on June 10, 2008 at 09:16 am
In Iraq...
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Friday, June 06, 2008
I’ve got to to digitize my Victory at Sea VHS tapes. ...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
By
Rob
on June 3, 2008 at 10:00 am
After all, why should we treat terrorists like thuggish, murderous criminals when we could treat them as victims in need of entitlements? Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said that a ‘fresh…...
Friday, May 30, 2008
By
Rob
on May 30, 2008 at 02:32 pm
Except here’s an inconvenient truth that isn’t explicitly mentioned in the not-so-objective article: ...by joining the military, going to war, enduring relationship trouble, extended deployments, and hell in Bush’s illegal…...
By
Rob
on May 30, 2008 at 01:37 pm
The article doesn’t mention any praise for America specifically for making this progress in Iraq possible - though that doesn’t mean it wasn’t there - but even barring that who…...
Thursday, May 29, 2008
By
Rob
on May 29, 2008 at 11:29 am
Because it doesn’t matter what’s actually happening in Iraq. Barack doesn’t need to see for himself what things are like on the ground in order to set policy. All that…...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
By
Rob
on May 27, 2008 at 07:30 am
Violent attacks in Iraq are at their lowest level since March of 2004. No wonder Obama and the rest of the Democrats have lost interest in the war. The U.S.…...
Monday, May 26, 2008
By
Rob
on May 26, 2008 at 09:36 am
Sheesh: The analysts discussed several of the “nightmares” that might arise in this world where Muslim rage continued but without the discipline of a controlling central organization. “My doomsday scenario,…...
By
Rob
on May 26, 2008 at 09:33 am
And thus his betrayal of the Jewish state is complete. Israel has 150 nuclear weapons in its arsenal, former President Jimmy Carter said yesterday, while arguing that the US should…...
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