From the Associated Press today: “The decision to launch on that particular moonless night in May came largely because too many American officials had been briefed on the plan. U.S. officials feared if it leaked to the press, bin Laden would disappear for another decade.” From President Obama’s appearance on 60 Minutes on Sunday, May …
Joe Biden – Chickenhawk Warmonger…
… merely applying the standard the left applies to Vice President Cheney. The AP reports on Joe Biden’s evasion of the draft during the Vietnam war: Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number of deferments received by Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was …
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Democratic Cowboy Chickenhawk War-mongers
Good point from Ralph Peters: AM I the only one who’s noticed the silence? Mere months ago, left-wing bloggers and demonstrators were wailing Support our troops, bring them home! seven days a week. Now their presidential candidate has announced that he won’t bring all those troops home, but will simply transfer combat forces from Iraq …
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A new kind of politics…
Former Democratic Party presidential candidate and current Obama campaign flack Gen. Wesley Clark supports chickenhawk warmonger Barack Obama, who never served a day in the military, by attacking John McCain’s military record and supposed lack of executive experience. Gen. Wesley Clark, acting as a surrogate for Barack Obama’s campaign, invoked John McCain’s military service against …
The Washington Post finally notices “The Iraqi Upturn”
An editorial from the Washington Post today: The Iraqi Upturn Don’t look now, but the U.S.-backed government and army may be winning the war THERE’S BEEN a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks — which is odd, because May could turn out to have been one of the most …
What’s better experience for becoming Commander in Chief, military service or First Lady travel?
From Byron York at The Corner on National Review Online: Wes Clark: McCain Doesn’t Have the Right Kind of Military Experience To Be Commander-in-Chief “…having served as a fighter pilot – and I know my experience as a company commander in Vietnam – that doesn’t prepare you to be commander-in-chief in terms of dealing with …
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NY Times: Democrats refuse to change course in Iraq, despite facts on the ground
The NY Times reports on top Democrats’ refusal to accept reality and change course: Advisers to Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama say that the candidates have watched security conditions improve after the troop escalation in Iraq and concluded that it would be folly not to acknowledge those gains. At the same time, they …
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The Democrats’ notion of “focusing on counter-terrorism in Iraq” is a bad joke
A report from Yahoo News notes some more garbled thinking from the Democratic leadership (using the term very loosely) in their continued bid to force a U.S. surrender in Iraq. What caught our eye in this one was a line about another effort to roll back the effort that has finally brought success this year …
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CNN: “Dems join GOP in slamming ad attacking Petraeus” Uh, not quite
Well, liberal Democrats certainly have loose standards for what constitutes “slamming”. How nice of CNN to go to bat for their colleagues in Congress. The headline at cnn.com reads “Dems join GOP in slamming ad attacking Petraeus”. The story says of Senate majority leader Harry Reid: When asked early Monday if this was the right …
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Senator Harry Reid: tens of thousands of U.S. troops to remain in Iraq
Yesterday, Democratic Senator Harry Reid called for a continued presence of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq: “Understand even if you take (the) Feingold-Reid (proposal), Feingold-Reid called for American troops to remain in Iraq to do counterterrorism, to protect our assets in Iraq, to train the Iraqis,” Reid explained. “There’s estimates that that would still …
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Colin Powell on Meet the Press
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell made a strong defense of the lead up to the invasion of Iraq in 2002 and early 2003 Sunday on Meet the Press. His arguments serve as yet more evidence that the continuing cries from the anti-victory left that “Bush lied us into war!” are nothing but cheap …
Senator Barack Obama offers flowery, yet vacuous and incoherent, foreign policy statement
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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 …
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