September 26, 2007
“Everyone in this room would agree that people in this country were misled in terms of the rationale of this war,†said Couric, adding that it is “pretty much accepted†that the war in Iraq was a mistake.While this admission of gross malfeasance from the media establishment is welcome, it's unclear whether the motivation was Katie's desire to be forthcoming in exposing her personal bias, or simple stupidity. I'm leaning toward stupidity.
ADDENDUM (Good Lt.): For Bo and posterity, here's a video of a half dozen or so leading Democrats (Albright, Clinton, John Edwards, Pelosi, Biden, Bayh, Berger, Rockefeller, Harry Reid, etc.) 'being misled' ... by themselves and their intel in 1998 and beyond.
Anyone claiming that we were "misled" into Iraq is a liar, a Democrat moron and a partisan political hack who doesn't even have a basic understanding of contemporary history or factual reality.
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September 06, 2007
"The Bush report?" Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin said when asked about the upcoming report from Gen. Petraeus, U.S. commander in Iraq.Discredit the report by linking it to the Bush administration, very clever."We know what is going to be in it. It's clear. I think the president's trip over to Iraq makes it very obvious," the Illinois Democrat said. "I expect the Bush report to say, 'The surge is working. Let's have more of the same.' " ....
"We will see what the Bush report will be at the end of next week," Mrs. Pelosi said. "The facts are self-evident that the progress is not being made. They might want to find one or two places where there has been progress ... but the plural of anecdote is not data."
She said Democrats were determined to uncover "the ground truth in Iraq."
I think Bill Ardalino might have something to say about "the ground truth", Mrs. Pelosi.
...the positive change in Fallujah since my January visit is astounding.INDC Journal: The "Bush report" from Fallujah.
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July 23, 2007
Don' they know that the Democrats are trying to pick up seats in Congress? Don't they know that Harry Reid, the Glorious Leader, proclaimed the war over and lost already? Why don't the Iraqis listen to General Reid? Maybe they're on the BOOSH payroll...
This simply will no do! More defeatism! More pullouts! More slaughter! More Senate seats!
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July 09, 2007
Four Years of War in Iraq and Afghanistan: Total of 4,000 fatalities (yet another 'grim milestone').
Vietnam fatalities: 1965 - 1,863; 1966 - 6,143; 1967 - 11,153; 1968 - 16,592; 1969 - 11,616; 1970 - 6,081; 1971 - 2,357.
Riehl notes that we lost four times as many soldiers in 1968 alone than in four years and two theaters in this war.
Yup. This war is just like Vietnam.
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June 29, 2007
Read it all, and serve your favorite lib a nice helping of contemporary history regarding UN resolutions, violated treaties, and an distorted lies that Gore and his ilk have effectively convinced themselves of since the war began.
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June 15, 2007
Harry Reid has confirmed that he was indeed attacking Gen. Peter Pace in the Politico story.
Nice try at narrative control by the nutosphere, but they failed. As we've always maintained, if you lie down with nutroots, you're gonna say and do stupid things to please them.
And Harry Reid indeed has said and done a stupid thing here to please the Nutroots. His own Macacca moment? Probably not (the media won't give it any play like they did to the Macaccagate), but definitely embarrassing and well below the expected conduct of a member of the "austere" US Senate. Certainly not below the conduct of a modern Democrat, however.
Harry Reid wouldn't know the difference between a corporal and a lance corporal, but he knows Gen Pace is "incompetent." Bad news, Senator. The public trusts the military far more than they trust you pampered morons sitting on your fat as*es declaring the war lost in the comfort of your air-conditioned offices in the DemCongress.
If you want to see how they try to obfuscate, slither out of, and deny their involvement with this demagoguery after being forced to admit they were wrong, read down a few posts at TPM. The conceding post reads thus:
Okay, we've obtained a tape of the controversial Reid conference call with liberal bloggers.Sure. The "context" of calling Gen. Peter Pace incompetent is "overblown." Nice try, morons.Yes, he did in fact say that Pace is "incompetent." But the context shows that the controversy's way overblown. Take a look.
Did he say it, Greg? Yes. Did he say it to liberal bloggers? Yes. You and your horde spent your day trying to refute it and to deny it, and the truth hit you square on your noggin. See Insty for the "plausible deniability" exercise put on by the members of the conference call. In true Clintonista fashion, they all play the "I don't remember/recall/have knowledge/see it in my notes" card, but don't outright deny it because they likely knew what the truth was. They were there.
But remember, people. It was the "nuance" of the remark that matters. It was the "context." From liberal talker Taylor Marsh:
Calling a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff "incompetent" is anything but unremarkable.You're damn right, sister. Time for some nutroots to eat some well-deserved shinola sandwiches. This vitriolic Kos diarist can start gobbling crow any time now, when she passes Journalism 101. Any time, now. We'll gladly wait. Bob Geiger? Back to Journalism 101 for you, too.Trust me when I say we're going to be eating this for a very long time. Next our presidential candidates will be asked if they agree with Senator Reid's assessment of General Pace. Insert your favorite question about this nightmare here.
There is yet another aspect of this event. How did Politico.com get even the partial quote? That's yet another troubling aspect of this sorry situation.
Remember this incident the next time the Nutosphere tries to jump all over any right-blogger or right-politician for making a snafu - the "context" is what's most important. Which means (to them) that they may agree with what he said but regret that anyone outside of their little cabal heard it.
Addendum: DaveC in the comments points out that I clumsily worded a passage above when I said that Reid attacked "the Troops" as opposed to General Pace. He was, upon reflection, right about that, and I have amended said offending passage. I would also point out, however, that this is the second time this week that Reid has attacked military members - the other day, he preemptively declared an effort that hasn't even fully been implemented 'a failure.' I consider that an attack on the troops engaged in the surge effort, since he told them they failed before they even did anything. So I will make no apology to Reid on this basis. He's on a hot streak this week, so to speak.
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June 14, 2007
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "incompetent" during an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers, a comment that was never reported.And Defense Secretary Robert Gates did not recommend Marine general Peter Pace for a second term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because of Democratic threats to smear the general.Reid made similar disparaging remarks about Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said several sources familiar with the interview.
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After years of undermining, meddling, micromanaging, opposing and interfering with the military's mission in Iraq in every way they possibly could, the Democrats are now trying to blame the troops for the Democrat-declared "loss" in Iraq while the troops are still fighting there.
As Dennis Kucinich said recently, "it's Congress's war now." That's not constitutionally accurate, but in the sense that a loss would be the DemCong's fault, he's exactly and unintentionally right. Name one thing the Democrats have done to show they support the war effort or that they haven't been an obstacle to giving the Troops what they've needed since 2003. They've already tried to hold them hostage twice just this year over funding. That's Democrat "support."
Congrats, losers. Way to support the war effort that you voted for.
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June 13, 2007
Under a sweltering Iraqi sky, [Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis, commanding general of Marine Forces Central Command] asked for questions from his troops.Many were reluctant, but Marine Lance Cpl. Jack Kessel, 19, of Raleigh, N.C., stepped forward. Something had been gnawing at him as he and his buddies go about the business of winning hearts and minds in al-Anbar province: “How are we supposed to fight a war when people back home say we’ve already lost?â€
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Marines continue to exceed their re-enlistment goals. A recent study showed that those who have deployed twice to Iraq are more likely to re-enlist than those who have gone once. The Marine least likely to re-enlist is one who has not deployed to Iraq.
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Mattis told the Marines to believe their own eyes rather than news accounts about who is winning the war. Don’t be discouraged by politicians and pundits who haven’t been to Iraq: “Don’t hold it against them. The only reason they have that freedom of speech is because you’ll fight for it.â€
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May 29, 2007
From Breitbart:
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Cindy Sheehan, the soldier's mother who galvanized an anti-war movement with her monthlong protest outside President Bush's ranch, said Tuesday she's done being the public face of the movement.Good luck with that.
"I've been wondering why I'm killing myself and wondering why the Democrats caved in to George Bush," Sheehan told The Associated Press while driving from her property in Crawford to the airport, where she planned to return to her native California."I'm going home for awhile to try and be normal," she said.
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ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. (AP) - Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans' graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday.Earlier, Presidential hopeful John Edwards had called for Memorial Day anti-war protests on his website. Good one, John.
Forty-six flag standards were found empty and another 33 flags were in charred tatters Sunday in the cemetery, authorities said. Swastikas drawn on paper appeared where 14 of the flags had been.Members of the American Legion on this island off Washington's northwest coast replaced the burned flags with new ones Sunday afternoon.
The vandals struck again on Memorial Day after a guard left at dawn, the San Juan County sheriff's office said. This time, the vandals left 33 of the hand-drawn swastikas
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May 24, 2007
We all know John Edwards is an insufferable hypocrite and profound jackass. His most recent attempted "nuance" was referring to the global war on Islamic terrorism as "a bumper sticker" and "a slogan," while pointing out that calling it a war on terror is "not a plan."
Contradictory lies and previous heroic stances aside, I should probably point Edwards and his moronic legions to another bumper sticker and a slogan that wasn't a plan:

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As Amnesty releases its annual report on human rights for 2006, amid highly choreographed public relations events, and repeating the familiar condemnations of Israel and America, NGO Monitor has also published a report on Amnesty's activities in the Middle East. The result is not a pretty picture for those clinging to the "halo effect."Here's one of Charles' screenshots of their BDS-riddled leftist propaganda poll from Amnesty's "disinterested, nonpartisan" website yesterday:Using a detailed and sophisticated qualitative model for comparing relative resources devoted to the different countries, this report clearly shows that in 2006, Amnesty singled out Israel for condemnation of human rights to a far greater extent than Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Egypt, and other chronic abusers of human rights.
During the year, Amnesty issued 48 publications critical of Israel, compared to 35 for Iran, 2 for Saudi Arabia, and only 7 for Syria. Many of the attacks directed at Israel took place during the war with Hezbollah, but this terror group and state-within-a-state also got relatively little attention from Amnesty.
Furthermore, as Amnesty has almost no professional researchers, many of the "factual" claims in these reports were provided by "eyewitnesses," whose political affiliations and credibility can be only guessed. And the language used in these reports also reflects an obsessive and unjustified singling out of Israel, with frequent use of terms such "disproportionate attacks," "war crimes," and "violations of international humanitarian law."

Truthout!
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Oh no! What's that song?
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May 22, 2007
Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Representative John Murtha (D-Pa.) the May Porker of the Month for throwing a temper tantrum and threatening his colleagues over a challenge to a $23 million pet project in the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2008.more...
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May 19, 2007
From the Associated Press: more...
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May 18, 2007

House dotard and unindicted Abscam co-conspirator Jack Murtha is making the news for shouting threats at political opponents on the House floor: more...
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May 17, 2007
The Democrats have demonstrated that they're far worse than the Republicans they were railing against for the same "crimes," and that they have no intention of cleaning up the corruption in Congress.
By Democrat logic, the Democrats are all the arbiters of the Culture of Corruption and are by extension all criminals now. With power comes responsibility.
Go ahead. Try to spin the bald-faced lies the Democrats told the voters during the 2006 election cycle. The American people are noticing.
Hence, 29%. See y'all in 2008. You too, pro-amnesty Republicrats.
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May 15, 2007
I can only hope the Democrats keep doing what they're doing - ensuring a lost war, raising taxes by the largest amount in world history, trying to shut down talk radio because they can't effectively compete, holding our Troops hostage while their approval whittles down to nothing, etc.
Don't blame us. Blame those rightwing neeeeeocons at Gallup.
Even Bush has a higher aggregate approval rating.
Too sweet.
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May 14, 2007
If you're not actively against radical Islamists, terrorism or indiscriminate murder in the name of Allah, then you're objectively pro-terrorist. Al-Qaeda obviously sees it this way, and the Democrats are the useful idiots who enable them by doing their propaganda work- dutifully demoralizing the enemies of radical Islam. Buried in the aforelinked WaPo article, we find this:
Mohamad al-Janabi, a reputed al-Qaeda member in the nearby city of Salman Pak, said in a telephone interview that he was unable to contact his comrades in Mahmudiyah to determine whether they were responsible for the attack.As Ace succinctly put it, al-Qaeda knows who its allies are.But he added: "I can assure you that we will start pressuring Bush in a new way at the same time he is facing pressures from the Democrats and the American people. And there will be no problem to sacrifice 10 soldiers in order to abduct a single American soldier and get him on television screens begging for us to release him."
And Orwell was a smart guy - had the left pegged years before we had them pegged.
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Memorial Day is about honoring the fallen, not about holding antiwar rallies over the graves and memorials of America's war dead.
There are 364 other days on which you should (and will) have your pathetic protests. Memorial Day belongs to the war dead, their families and the country who loves and supported them. We honor their memory not be decrying the wars in which they fought, but by remembering why they fought and died in them.
And if the Democrats can't figure out the "why" of the current war (it certainly ain't oil, lefties), then there is no use explaining it to them. They don't care. Hence, they're not honoring the war dead. They're spitting on heroe's graves as part of a cheap publicity stunt. Sponsored by the Democrats.
These are the folks who refer to America's struggle as a "mistake," a "blunder," a "lie," a "crime," etc. By extension, they're indicting the soldiers who executed that policy as foot soldiers in these "crimes" and "lies." They don't support the Troops, because they don't support the mission for which the Troops fight.
Of course, we shouldn't expect much from a candidate who hired two of the most vile and hate-filled liberal bloggers on the web and didn't even know it until it blew up in his face.
ht: Bryan at Hot Air
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May 10, 2007
Retired generals who have been against the effort for years are suddenly news. Three of them.
What the hell is up with this? Why is the news media ignoring the Troops? Why are they trying to suppress one half of the "story" - the half that doesn't go along with the Democrats?
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