Winds of change from Brutally Honest
The last few days I’ve been noticing a theme. Call it shifting winds or turning tide, but it seems like people are noticing a change in the way the subject of Iraq is being reported since the elections. I first [Read More]

Tracked on December 15, 2005 1:40 PM

Winds of Change from The Insomniac
The last few days I’ve been noticing a theme. Call it shifting winds or turning tide, but it seems like people are noticing a change in the way the subject of Iraq is being reported since the elections. I first [Read More]

Tracked on December 15, 2005 1:52 PM

Some Things Will Never Change from Funmurphys: the Blog
Why is the media doing such a bad job in Iraq? Don't take my word for it, don't take our soldier's word for it, take a journalist's word for it: Think about everything you’ve heard about the conditions in Iraq,... [Read More]

Tracked on December 16, 2005 1:28 PM

I want to belive this will not be a protracted police action but then again we see the pentagon rattling sabers to get into Iran and Syria....so people better get used to the idea of US forces being in the middle east for some time to come....and this will occur no mater who sits in the Whitehouse...even Hitlery has shown unwavering support for the war.

With the roaring silence of both China and Russia over US occupation in the Mid east...we can expect the military factions in US government to push the clean-up-the mid-east-once-and-for-all agenda across all party lines and succeed on some form of Iranian invasion.

China is laughing all the way to the bank as it increases its wealth while the US squanders theirs on global policing and the Russians are profiteering selling their surplus out dated conventional ordenance to the insurgent factions and military regimes of Iran and Syria.

Meanwhile all we can do in Scott Reid's Canada, with our depleated defense resources, is sit under the security of US continental defence umbrella while we offer hollow secular humanist platitudes, impotent nanny-state scoldings to the "bad people" of the world and supply insurgent terrorism with a supply of hostages.

Channeling Lew and all other Moonbats:

This was all illegal to begin with, there must be immediate withdrawal and monetary compensation paid to the Palestinians and Israel must be dismantled.

Translation:

There is no way in the holy name of Stalin that George Bush was right all along, so let's kill all the Jews!

God bless George Bush and all those wise, enlightend, forward looking, positive, progressive, and democracy-rule of law-freedom loving people who have supported him throughout.

Ahaha, taking Sykes' constantly optimistic predictions as anything more then the view of a single man in a maelstrom is ridiculous.

If there is a successful election in Iraq will PMPM and Pravda acknowledge it or will they acknowledge they didnt support it.

Ahaha, taking Sykes' constantly optimistic predictions as anything more then the view of a single man in a maelstrom is ridiculous.

Posted by brayker at December 15, 2005 01:14 PM

brayker,brayker,

I suggest you learn the difference between "then" and "than" rather than boring us with your ridiculous negativity.

Yeah WLM2, China loves the idea of the US getting ever more deeply involved in the middle east. Especially if there are US bases in Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Syria. They'd LOVE THAT! The Russians would too, as it would at once give the Chinese further incentive take control of Siberia while reducing the price of oil.

As always, ignorant isolationism and xenophobia are bad policies and those followed by slow and overly pessimistic minds.

The most frustrating thing about being a conservative is having to tolerate the left's refusal to admit they're always wrong and conservatives are always right.

Go Dubya!

I heard that Michael Moore read this piece and got so depressed he went out and ate a giant Big Boy Burger statue right in front of the staff.

I agree with Terry (above): God Bless George Bush!

Duke: LOLOLOLOLOL!!!

Mucho thanks to you supportive Canadians.

All I can say is: talk about "Iraq the Model" . . .

This is a very happy day for those of us who wanted to go to Baghdad in *1991*. Not to mention for the Iraqis themselves!

Thank you Jose.

Unfortunately my "God bless" post was written in a hurry and I forgot to recognize those who deserve the most credit:

the awe-inspiring coalition soldiers who've put their lives on the line to allow freedom loving Iraqis the opportunity to determine their future.

That very first comment was awesome!!!!!!!

The original WLMK hoped that Canada would somehow be able to stay out a second World War, and once Canada joined was only compelled to have Canada play a significant military role by English Canada (which has since been replaced by an empty, multicultural, post-national RoC). Redux follows ably in the original's footsteps.

Great link to the Fairbanks reporter. Some of the commenters above should bother actually to read it.

Mark
Ottawa

But I do like Redux's final para.

Mark
Ottawa

Iraq Election Update: Nyuck Nyuck

"Might seem like a real mess, but most Iraqi are like most of us...good, honest people who want peace and prosperity. Seeing free people vote for their first legitimate government should inspire all Americans, whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Janine Garofolo, or Ann Colter. As I was driving in my Stryker to a polling site to let my Iraqi born interpreters to vote, one told me he thought this election was another "poke in the insurgents eye." I thought about this, then I did the old "Three Stooges eye poke" thing to him...which he deftly parried with the old "Three Stooges hand in front of the nose" move. Then we both did the nyuk, nyuk, nyuk bit...and laughed till our balls hurt."

I know the percentage of Canadian voters that vote is dismal...I'm wondering what the turnout was when we first had elections? 1867?

Hanoi Jane gets "it"; her logic is impeccable.>>>

Jane Fonda: U.S. Troops Are 'Killing Machines'

"One doctor, she insists, told her U.S. troops had been deliberately trained to be "killing machines."

"One doctor"? Dr. Pill, maybe?
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/13/234848.shtml%5C

In Memoriam: Rick Rescorla. RIP.>>

THE REAL HEROES ARE DEAD
A love story.
by JAMES B. STEWART

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020211fa_FACT1

"Long before the first World Trade Center attack in February 1993, Rescorla had become preoccupied with the security of the World Trade Center offices. After the 1993 attack, Rescorla developed a security and evacuation program for the Morgan Stanley employees. On 9/11, Rescorla led the evacuation of thousands of Morgan Stanley employees to safety, although he himself died in the collapse of the south tower as he sought to ensure that none of his charges had been left behind.

Rescorla's story is memorialized in the book by James B. Stewart, Heart of a Soldier. The book grew out of Stewart's New Yorker article about Rescorla. That article is available online as "The real heroes are dead." ("The real heroes are dead" is what Rescorla would say in response to recognition of his heroism on the battlefield in Vietnam.) His story should be known and remembered.

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The book recounts Rescorla's story -- the story of a British native who moved to the United States to join the Army and fight in Vietnam. Rescorla was inspired to move to the United States by his friendship with Dan Hill, and their friendship is the one constant theme of the book. Hill and Rescorla had become friends in Rhodesia and self-consciously modeled themselves on the characters of Peachy and Dravot in Kipling's story "The Man Who Would Be King." They both served as officers in Vietnam, where in 1965 Rescorla saw harrowing combat in the Ia Drang Valley. >>>
via powerline.

Long Live Free Iraq!

How about some historical context? Do you realize that U.S., British, and NATO troops (including Canadians) remained in Germany after WW2 for, oh, 60 years (indeed, there are still NATO forces there)! That while the U.S. was helping to rebuild Japan its forces and provisional government stayed on until 1954 (that's 9 years). How long were U.S. and international troops in South Korea after the Korean war? Why is there this obsession that a country can be defeated and then the victorious army can just walk away the next day?

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