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When I was a kid in the 70′s, on Saturdays at midnight I would watch Count Gore De Vol host his show Creature Feature. Harry Reid will be bringing back his own horror show tonight on the floor of the Senate. Count Reid promises to keep the session through the night to debate the Iraq [...]

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Update 7/17/2007: Michael Yon’s latest dispatch discusses how servicemen cherish their Strykers. The money quote: Even an up-armored Humvee is just a machine, a necessary carapace. But a Stryker gets treated like a member of the platoon. Soldiers take extra care of them. When a Humvee is badly damaged, it gets turned in to the [...]

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Can you guess one of the four? Jeopardy music please…………… ok it’s too easy, it’s our never disappointing RINO Gilchrest. Can we make the Gilchrest for Lieberman trade now. House Republican leaders largely kept their party together on the issue of Iraq last night, with only four members breaking with their party to support a [...]

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Boy,  the Washington Post is simply a far superior newspaper then NY Times. Today’s Post editorial calls out the delusions of the “Withdrawal Now” caucus: Advocates of withdrawal would like to believe that Afghanistan is now a central front in the war on terror but that Iraq is not; believing that doesn’t make it so. [...]

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Update: AP covers for previous report with this headline:                     Iraq Report Shows Only Limited Progress I guess meeting half of the benchmark is limited. AP never misses a chance in presenting the news in Iraq as negatively as possible. Whether outright mis-reporting or skewing it with adverbs. 7/12/2007 The AP [...]

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The conservative blogasphere and talk radio slammed John McCain these last 3 months on his amnesty bill and presented a united front in bringing the bill down to defeat. I wonder will that same energy be provided in support of McCain as he stands bravely with General Petraeus, our troops, and their mission? (Here’s one [...]

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I don’t agree with her on many issues, including Iraq, but here is an honest professor ready to engage in the battle of ideas. Here she gives actual reasons why our troop should leave Iraq now, unlike NYT . I don’t agree, but how refreshing. I am less sanguine than you about the possibility of [...]

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Meanwhile, as the Senate debates retreat, report after report from Iraq confirms the surge is working: Michael Yon: freelance reporter – 7/9/07 Al Qaeda’s ultimate failure in much of Anbar and now in parts of Diyala relates back to one of the pillars of success—or failure—in this war: Values. People who understand how to tamp [...]

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Update: 7/12/2007 McCain rips this same NY Times editorial on the floor of the Senate today: 7/11/2007: The New York Times has an astonishing Op-Ed this past Sunday which calls for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. The editors stating flatly: Continuing to sacrifice the lives and limbs of American soldiers is wrong. The war is [...]

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As wobbly-kneed Republicans and Democratic leadership talk of withdrawal, our commander in the field tries to give a voice to our troops. What is the one factor he would ask for if he could have anything, time. The money quote: Q: Now that the surge is fully in place, what’s your sense of the positives [...]

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I wrote a couple weeks ago regarding the Failed State Index; and now Natan Sharansky has similar thoughts regarding Iraq in a column in the Washington Post.  He takes a shot at the international organizations and peace groups who keep whitewashing Saddam’s Iraq as a safe and peaceful place compared to the current “civil war.” [...]

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I know I keep encouraging everyone to go read Michael Yon’s dispatches from Iraq, and here again I will do the same. He has one out today, and although it includes a rather brutal story about another grotesque al Quaeda tactic in Iraq, it is upbeat and encouraging. The money quote: The big news on [...]

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