Last month saw a significant drop in casualties in Iraq (reflecting a downward trend since the summer). Obviously, this is very good news. Yet, you wouldn’t know it by the mainstream media’s reporting. Of course, they’ll report any uptick in casualties on the front pages without hesitation. But the mainstream press is “unbiased”, right? They [...]
StrategyPage has an excellent op-ed today:
The major problem in Iraq is back in the United States. There, many politicians either don’t bother, or don’t want to believe, what is actually happening, and has happened, in Iraq. In a way, that makes sense. Because what is going on in Iraq is so totally alien to the [...]
I ran across this article today, which sums up the lies and selective memory of the left. Excerpts:
Yet even stipulating–which I do only for the sake of argument–that no weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq in the period leading up to the invasion, it defies all reason to think that Mr. Bush was lying [...]
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Today’s New York Times clearly admits that Saddam had the knowledge to build an atom bomb. (Original article here, via Drudge Report. Article reproduced here.)
Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from [...]
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Apparently there’s a new show on FX called “Over There”, about a small unit in Iraq. It is getting less than rave reviews from those who have actually been over there:
The grizzled leader of our heroes, Sgt. ‘Scream’, complains that they are stuck there holding the cordon so some stupid general 75 miles away can [...]
From the sandbox, we see this most satisfying report of insurgents getting their asses handed to them after they ambushed a supply convoy:
About this time, three armored Hummers that formed the MP Squad under call sign Raven 42, 617th MP Co, Kentucky National Guard, assigned to the 503rd MP Bn (Fort Bragg), 18th MP Bde, [...]
Predictably, Giuliana Sgrena is disputing the version of events that lead to her car being fired upon at an American checkpoint in Baghdad. She then goes on to play the Eason Jordan card:
Left-wing journalist Giuliana Sgrena claimed American soldiers gave no warning before they opened fire and said Sunday she could not rule out that [...]