There’s been a good amount of reaction to the blog post put up by Paul Krugman at the NY Times today. There’s been less reaction to the story that’s linked below Krugman’s on memorandum as I write: A group of Muslim protesters set fire to an American flag outside the US embassy in London during …
They were for waterboarding before they were against it
The Washington Post reports today, leading Democrats were briefed back in September 2002 about the CIA’s interrogation program, including waterboarding, and raised no objections then. In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. …
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Obama: Forget al Qaeda in Iraq, invade Pakistan!
We noted a few weeks ago how incoherent Barack Obama’s last big foreign policy pronouncement was, and now he’s decided to make another, less coherent, foreign policy pronouncement. His goal seemed to be to sound like a tough guy to show he’d be strong on national security as president, but he didn’t seem to give …
Democrats simply ignoring facts and intelligence
It just doesn’t matter what the intelligence says, or what the facts on the ground in Iraq are, the Democrats will continue regurgitating the same talking points – From the declassified summary of the new NIE: “The terrorist network Al-Qaida will likely leverage its contacts and capabilities in Iraq to mount an attack on U.S. …
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Senator Barack Obama offers flowery, yet vacuous and incoherent, foreign policy statement
Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama recently offered a lengthy treatise on war, terrorism, and foreign policy in Foreign Affairs (via Real Clear Politics). Herewith, a few observations about the points Mr. Obama made in the article: “The Bush administration responded to the unconventional attacks of 9/11 with conventional thinking of the past, largely viewing …
Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hypocrisy
It really takes a lot of nerve, or confidence you won’t get called on your double-talk by a fawning press, to condemn someone for a statement, while simultaneously making essentially the same statement you’re condemning. But that’s basically what Barack Obama did in response to a speech by Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday. Giuliani essentially said …
Pentagon report confirms pre-war Iraq-terrorism ties
The Washington Post confirms – Iraq under Saddam Hussein had longstanding ties to terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, contrary to the baseless assertions of Democrats, who have for several years now repeated the slanderous fantasy that President Bush and his administration made up the threat posed by the regime of Saddam Hussein. From the Post …
The Case for Waterboarding
An article at Frontpage Magazine makes the case. Many on the left, always fond of making moral equivalence “arguments”, wish to compare the limited coercive interrogation of terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to the brutal torture of political dissidents by totalitarian regimes such as that of Saddam Hussein or the old Soviet Union. (Here is …
NY Times: Supporters of House passed detainee bill not “normal”
Here is an excerpt of the NY Times‘ hysterical editorial on the legislation passed by the House yesterday dealing with terrorist detainees: Here’s what happens when this irresponsible Congress railroads a profoundly important bill to serve the mindless politics of a midterm election: The Bush administration uses Republicans’ fear of losing their majority to push …
NY Times cherry-picks Iraq intel in NIE
So no surprise, the NY Times cherry-picked the intel they received via leak from the CIA to present the public with the most anti-war/anti-Bush slant they could manage. The actual NIE, partially declassified today by the Bush administration, does not support the “Iraq made terrorism worse” spin from the Times and in fact can be …
Rice Rebuts Clinton
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice responds to Bill Clinton’s attack on the Bush administration on Fox News Sunday: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday accused Bill Clinton of making “flatly false” claims that the Bush administration didn’t lift a finger to stop terrorism before the 9/11 attacks. Rice hammered Clinton, who leveled his charges in …
WaPo: Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Hurting U.S. Terror Fight
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The Washington Post reports on a new National Intelligence Estimate (which apparently comes as a result of yet another leak of classified material from the intelligence commmunity), that offers a grim assessment of the state of the war on terror today and the effect of the war in Iraq on the broader war on terror: …
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