Say Anything Blog

Awesome, everytime one of these guys is killed it is grounds for celebration.

check out Goon’s World

Goon’s North Dakota Red Neck

goon,

Not killed, captured and being interrogated by the Iraqi’s.  No kid gloves for this illegal combatant.  I expect the Iraqis will pump him dry, try him, and hang him.

Out Here
Rodney G. Graves

Persia delenda est.
Latin: “Persia (modern day Iran) should be destoyed”

From the comments at The Belmont Club comes this astute reminder from Richard Fernandez:

Victory is cumulative. The Iraqi Security Forces, liaison with the Kurdish Peshmerga, the Battle of Mosul, the takedown of the ratlines—all of this was an investment of billions and thousands of lives. The Iraqi Security forces didn’t exist only a few years ago.

I was listening to a General Officer of an allied country who described how it took five years to add a couple of battalions to his force and then remarked that when he was in Iraq they were adding that many a month. Of course it didn’t happen by magic. In the end a bunch of guys got up every day and did it. Rain or shine. Snow or sandstorm. Damn the IEDs, full speed ahead.

Events like al-Masri’s capture highlight the fact that wars are often won by systemic developments. Behind the Marianas Turkey Shoot, for example, was the naval aviation training program, the Grumman Hellcat, the CIC, the fast carrier task forces. All the cumulative stuff.

But I’d like to suggest the most important development is the process of organizational learning. Winning wars is often the consequence of learning faster and keeping the resulting human capital (better) than your opponent. Every American loss is a tragedy, but the AQ is losing human capital at a far greater rate. The prisons are full of AQ, many of them the investment of years of terrorist training. Al-Masri himself is a prime example. One moment he was the epitome of the terrorist. The next instant he was in cuffs.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

goon,
Not killed, captured and being interrogated by the Iraqi’s.  No kid gloves for this illegal combatant.  I expect the Iraqis will pump him dry, try him, and hang him.

Oh, I guess I got too excited to early.

check out Goon’s World

Goon’s North Dakota Red Neck

Bat One.  Nice background for those not familiar with military history.  In 2004 the Iraqi “National Guard” police force was stationed on the Air Base.  They finally went into Mosul and got a applause.  This has indeed been a long time coming.  Iraqis policing their own country successfully.
This story was found on page 4 of our local newspaper, The State.

Communism is evil

OOPS, not who they thought he was.

One of the first reporters to break the story was Fox’s National Security reporter (and Mullfave) Catherine Herridge who correctly pointed out that it was Iraqi TV and the Iraqi government which had announced this - not the US military, which was being careful to distance itself from the report until independent confirmation could be obtained.

Those who think the party or the country, will be “taught a lesson” by handing the levers of power over to the liberals will learn a lesson, but it will be at the expense of our country and her liberties. And there are no guarantees that the party or the country will come out stronger, more conservative or better positioned to win elections against the incumbent liberals.