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Has Al Queda lost the battle for hearts and minds in Iraq?

Posted by Dawnsblood on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:20:23 PM
Judith Apter Klinghoffer thinks so:

Overall 94 percent have an unfavorable view of al Qaeda, with 82 percent expressing a very unfavorable view. Of all organizations and individuals assessed in this poll, it received the most negative ratings. The Shias and Kurds show similarly intense levels of opposition, with 95 percent and 93 percent respectively saying they have very unfavorable views. The Sunnis are also quite negative, but with less intensity. Seventy-seven percent express an unfavorable view, but only 38 percent are very unfavorable. Twenty-three percent express a favorable view (5% very).

She remarks that US are losing Iraqi confidence too, but that is understandable. The Iraqis want to believe in their guys.
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I support Ferdinand and Isabella

Posted by Dawnsblood on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:14:06 PM
I agree with the CDR. I miss him too.
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Don't give up on Election Day!

Posted by Dawnsblood on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 6:45:41 PM
John Hawkins over at Right Wing News wrote a very good article for Human Events Online entitled "Cutting off your Nose to Spite Your Face, Conservative Style" Here is part of the snippet he highlighted at his blog:

"If your son hadn’t studied quite as hard as he should have for a history test, would you hope that he flunked badly in order to, “teach him a lesson?” If you goofed off at work a few times, do you think it would make sense for your employer to fire you and hire someone who spends all day sleeping in your place? If your favorite football team lost a few games to mediocre opponents during the season, would you root for them to lose the Super Bowl in hopes that they would be better the next year?

The answer to all those questions is, "no." You still want your son to pass the test, you want to keep your job, and you want to see your team win -- which brings us to the Republican Party in the 2006 elections."




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Clinton's 2nd embarrassing interview.

Posted by Dawnsblood on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 6:35:49 PM
After blowing up at Chris Wallace, Clinton gave another embarrassing interview. You can watch it here.
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Watch Olbermann Project...

Posted by Dawnsblood on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 8:38:54 PM
What an idiot...
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Round-up

Posted by Dawnsblood on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 8:15:30 PM
Sorry I am struggling through an chapter in 'Blog of War' that is rough for me, the seventh chapter is about the Fallen and it is sacred and profane at the same time for me. The toughest story starts on page 229. It is the story of Lt Col Michael Strobl's journey to help fallen Marine Lance Corporal Chance Phelps arrive home so his family and friends can deliver him to his final resting place.  I am blown away by the outpouring of sympathy the Lt Col meets along the journey. If this means anything coming from a former Army enlisted guy, Semper Fi and carry on my friends in the Marine Corps.

For my few family, friends and the few people who have somehow found this blog... I feel remiss if I don't at least provide a few links:

1) If you don't understand why we are doing what we are doing, please go here and listen as the President of Afganistan explains it. His English and reason are both excellent. He begins and ends the video.

2) The Nie on the internet.

3) Transparency rules! Bloggers welcome the signing of the pork database law.

Sorry... That is all.
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The Tripoli Six yet again

Posted by Dawnsblood on Monday, September 25, 2006 8:20:37 PM
I feel the need to keep pushing this. It is wrong, wrong and WRONG! Please contact your Congresscritter, Senators and the President. Dean has joined, Kos and Insty are in... Please consider helping. As you can see, I am doubling down. Not that my readership is huge or anything... 
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The Devil responds...

Posted by Dawnsblood on Monday, September 25, 2006 7:16:56 PM
Kinda a funny counterpoint to my Chavez item.
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General Musharraf's side of the story

Posted by Dawnsblood on Monday, September 25, 2006 7:14:33 PM
This is kinda funny to me at least:

My decision was based on the wellbeing of my people and the best interests of my country — Pakistan always comes first. I war-gamed the United States as an adversary. There would be a violent and angry reaction if we didn’t support the United States. Thus the question was: if we do not join them, can we confront them and withstand the onslaught? The answer was no, we could not, on three counts.

First was our military weakness as compared with the strength of the United States. Second was our economic weakness. We had no oil, and we did not have the capacity to sustain our economy in the face of an attack. Third, and worst of all, was our social weakness. We lack the homogeneity to galvanise the entire nation into an active confrontation. We could not endure a military confrontation with the United States from any point of view. The ultimate question that confronted me was whether it was in our national interest to destroy ourselves for the Taleban. Were they worth committing suicide over? The answer was a resounding no.


I am glad the General was intelligent enough to draw the right conclusion, but to 'war-game' it before time as if they stood a ghost of a chance? LOL!



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Is the two party system permanently broken?

Posted by Dawnsblood on Sunday, September 24, 2006 5:10:19 PM
Joe Gandelman has an excellent essay up on his blog 'The Moderate Voice". It starts like this:

Are independents voters the key to Democratic and Republican victories in 2006 and perhaps 2008? Or have the two parties become so repugnant to some voters that even that conventional wisdom could be outmoded?

There is an increasing school of thought that perhaps the country is heading out of its bile-filled "mobilization election" era where political party bigwigs can just press a little hotbutton and voters registered for their party will angrily flock to the polls to save the USA from being destroyed by members of the other party.

But is that a pipe dream — one that will look silly in the next weeks heading up to election day and after the votes are counted?

As a self-defined moderate, Joe identifies more with independents than either party.  So he looks at it from that viewpoint. I personally consider myself conservative but not a Republican though I vote that way the vast majority of the time. All that having been said, I do think the two party system is broken and it will not be fixed anytime soon. Both parties are so deeply entrenched, with laws and influence that it would take nuclear weapons to make a third party feasible.

Lets look at North Carolina for a minute. It happens to be the state I live in so I know it better than others. Here it seems as though every election the Libertarian Party (sometimes the Greens) have to spend oodles of money just to get permission to be on the ballot, while the Dems and Repubs get free rides.

I'm gonna make a confession, there was a time I was excited about the Republican party. In the heady days of Gore vs Bush, I gave a heavily as I could. It was the first election that I voted straight Republican and I felt good about it. Before that I researched every canditate, I still mostly voted Repub but the occasional Dem would get my vote if they seemed to be of good character and judgement. In 02, I was still pretty partisan. A few local Dems got my vote (mostly judges),  but still it was mostly a GOP ballot. In 04, I pulled another all party lever for the Repubs, except at city council level where there were only Dems running for Mayor. There was a difference in this one though. I was wavering a bit. Bush and the Republican party was getting me angry. Guest workers, McCain-Feingold's incumbent protection act and the Prescription Drug Benefit for Medicare had me angry. Had I wanted any of the above, I would have voted for Al Gore, not the Republican  candidate.  Now it was Bush vs Kerry and it was time to think. All of the above probably would have been passed under Kerry too. There was no chance I would vote for Kerry, but I did briefly consider not voting in protest but... The GWOT was underway and had to be won and tax cuts that the Dems would repeal are driving our economy to greater heights. So I voted all repub.

This brings me to 06. Now the threat is to the House. I have one vote on the matter. Robin Hayes is currently my Congressman. He and I largely agree on policy with a few big exceptions. Those being CAFTA and Prescription Drug benefit. His opponent is Larry Kissell. Mr Kissell stands for cut and run, opposes CAFTA and wants to tie our interrogator's hands. So once again I have to vote GOP.

It will probably be the same in 08 to. The Dems top three are probably going to be Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Mark Warner. For the Repubs it looks like John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. Let me just say I am not excited here folks. Likely once again I'll be voting GOP in 08, but I d@mn well wish I had a choice.
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Battle of Thermopylae

Posted by Dawnsblood on Sunday, September 24, 2006 3:05:09 PM
It seems there is a new movie coming out late 2006/early 2007 about the 300 Spartans who held the line at Thermopylae against a Persian army larger than most that had been fielded that day. Estimates of the size of the Persian army differ widely. I wonder if the movie will ignore the Thespians that stood beside the Spartans at the end of the day? Most seem to after all. You think Karl Rove is a PR mastermind? The Spartan's PR people had to have rocked.
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The tough questions?

Posted by Dawnsblood on Sunday, September 24, 2006 12:46:18 AM
Olbermann was billed by Msnbc as asking former President Clinton the hard questions. He totally failed. For anyone that wants to see the joke interview it is here. 
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List of top liberal and Conservative websites.

Posted by Dawnsblood on Saturday, September 23, 2006 9:40:40 PM
From the Beltway boys, an enterpising Freeper posts screen caps. You have to scroll down to comment 10. They are (from the month of August):
Conservative:
Newsmax.com  1,756,000 hits
Free Republic 1,280,000 hits
Rush Limbaugh 1,076,000 hits
Townhall 1,070,000 hits (yay!!)
Hot Air 975,000 hits

Liberal:
Huff Po 1,193,000 hits
Daily Kos 843,000 hits
Crooks and Liars 778,000 hits
Raw Story 607,000 hits
DNC 448,000 hits

I think we are doing pretty good.

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Save the Tripoli Six

Posted by Dawnsblood on Saturday, September 23, 2006 8:19:26 PM
I am going to break an unspoken rule I have followed in the short time I have posted links here. I am going to link to a story at Kos. Instapundit covers it too, but a blogswarm will be all the bigger if the entire blogosphere joins in.  Besides (sorry Glenn) believe it or not, Nyceve over at Kos covers it in great detail. In brief, Nyceve lays out the situation:

In a nutshell, and I mean a true nutshell, for those of you not familiar, the case involves five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who have been wrongfully charged for allegedly infecting children with HIV. They were tortured and forced to sign "confessions" written in Arabic they did not understand now they are awaiting execution by firing squad in Libya . In fact, the poor hygiene, dirty needles and bad practices in the hospital are to blame. 

Click on the Kos link above and read more, I only include the Insta link in case someone absolutely refuses to give Marcos traffic. This seems a bit too important for partisan politics.

Update: Here is a link to Declan Butler's Blog about it. He is a senior reporter with Nature Magazine. He points us to an editorial in Nature magazine. The editoral is very critical of everyone from the US to the EU:

The principles of law and science have the common aim of discovering the truth. A previous assessment of the case by two prominent AIDS researchers, Luc Montagnier and Vittorio Colizzi, concluded that the charges are false, that the medics are innocent, and that the infections resulted from poor hygiene in Libya's hospitals. It was not a plot orchestrated by the CIA and Israel's Mossad, as President Gaddafi alleged in 2001 — an allegation that has driven a popular thirst for vengeance in Libya.

I'll be writing a few letters to Washington before I turn in.
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More on torture

Posted by Dawnsblood on Saturday, September 23, 2006 5:48:17 PM
PowerLine blog reports that we Waterboard military aviators as part of SERE training:

The Waterboard is used as a safe (but TERRIBLY effective) way of SIMULATING torture in POW training (scuttlebutt was always that one, of the two to three people administering the Waterboard, was a Doctor or Corpsman in disguise). As a former Navy fighter pilot, I was put on the Waterboard in February 1973 - and it was an experience I never wanted to repeat.

So I guess the US Goverment tortures our uniformed aviators too.


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