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Stay the course...

Posted by Dawnsblood on Friday, September 22, 2006 11:20:39 PM
I know this is old...  But Tony Blair still makes sense.
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In Iraq, Al-Queda makes more enemies

Posted by Dawnsblood on Friday, September 22, 2006 6:56:00 PM
Coalition forces in Iraq have suddenly received the manpower equivalent of three light infantry divisions. They did not suffer any repercussions in domestic politics as a result, and now have a huge edge over al-Qaeda in al-Anbar province. How did this happen? Tribal leaders in the largely Sunni province on the Syrian border got together and signed an agreement to raise a tribal force of 30,000 fighters to take on foreign fighters and terrorists.

These leaders have thrown in with the central government in Baghdad. This is a decisive blow to al Qaeda, which has been desperately trying to fight off an Iraqi government that is getting stronger by the week.

I don't think I can add much to this. It sounds like good news though.
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Pop quiz: What percentage of the USA supports our role in Iraq?

Posted by Dawnsblood on Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:06:18 PM
If you said 51% you are a winner! Both Fox News-Opinion Dynamics and USA Today-Gallup both have polls out saying so. I don't know how long it will last, but it is welcome. Yes I know this is old, but surely it will be news to someone.
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Finally an answer on why Pakistan helped us against the Taliban

Posted by Dawnsblood on Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:00:01 PM
Yahoo is reporting that the President of Pakistan claims we threatened to bomb them is they didn't help.

Musharraf, in an interview with CBS news magazine show "60 Minutes" that will air on Sunday, said the threat came from Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and was given to Musharraf's intelligence director.

"The intelligence director told me that (Armitage) said, 'Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age,"' Musharraf said. "I think it was a very rude remark."


This was back when we cared enough to do what it took I suppose.

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Does 'torture' work?

Posted by Dawnsblood on Thursday, September 21, 2006 6:42:02 PM
The answer according to ABC is absolutely and undeniably yes. It is also true that it has saved countless lives. So far, every method that I have heard of that the CIA uses haven't sounded like torture to me, but it seems some disagree. My argument is that we treated a few scumball terrorists a bit roughly and that has convinced them to give us information that has save our fellow citizens. Good enough for me. Now the big question is whether 'Ego' McCain and his two fellow horsemen of inanities. I think we know the answer and Osama would heartily agree with him.
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The Idiot and Chief of Venezuela speaks...

Posted by Dawnsblood on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:53:14 PM
I can't believe anyone  with an IQ over 17 takes this guy seriously. Even former US President Bill Clinton beleives he screwed up. He has to beg Russia to help make up shortfalls that did not exist before he nationalized (stole) all the oil production facilities in his country. This man is a putz and has no class whatsoever. Nothing good will come from him. Nothing good at all.
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A glimmer of hope...

Posted by Dawnsblood on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:14:39 PM
can be found if one is willing to look. People often ask me why I haven't given up hope on Iraq yet. It is mostly because Iraqis haven't:

To show patriotism, true brotherhood and affirm the bond of belonging to one Iraq, which goes beyond religion or sect, a group of Iraqis (Christian and Muslim) attended a special service in the Roman Catholic church in Baghdad on Sunday the 17th of September. Muslims shared with Christian Catholics their prayer for almighty to clean the hearts and pray for unity. This came after increased anger by some Iraqi Muslims at statements made by the Holy Sea.

Addendum: I posted this to Free Republic.
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Olberman's special 'ed' comment

Posted by Dawnsblood on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 5:50:08 PM
Olberman shows how that he is a member of the "Make your own reality" based community. Like his friends on the left he thinks that 1) he and his ilk are the only people in America that are free to say what they wish and 2) That they have some kind of inherent right not to be criticized. What a numb nuts.
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Anbar and Afganistan.

Posted by Dawnsblood on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 8:33:54 PM
Bill Roggio, along with Michael Yon and Michael Totton has done us a great service, reporting what the MSM has chosen to ignore. Bill is trying to explain why Anbar isn't quite as bad as the MSM says it is, but is clearly frustrated.

I've received plenty of questions about the intelligence report that claims Anbar province has been lost. I've talked to several sources in the military and intelligence who have actually seen the entire report (and not been fed excerpts). They are angry over the media's characterization of the report. Basically, the report indicated that the situation in Ramadi is dire, and that the political situation in Anbar as a whole as a result is in danger because of this.

Ramadi has been a problem for some time, but the major problem there has been the Iraqi government's lack ofpolitical will to act over the course of the last year. Even ceding the security situation to the tribes is a form of passing the problem on to the locals.

Since my sources were unwilling to go on the record, I chose not to address this directly. If the military community is unwilling to step up to the plate and defend itself, except in vague terms, about the situation in Ramadi then they will have to deal with the backlash of this decision.

Michael  Yon explains Afganistan in very stark terms. Link to the last of the 3. His verdict?

The tragedy of all this is that after our military won stunning victory after stunning victory in the early war — crushing and vanquishing the Taliban — instead of setting in to seal the victory, we squandered it and ran off to Iraq, and the Taliban revived and returned.  At the current rate, we, along with the Brits, Aussies, Canadians, French, Germans, Italians, and all the rest who are there, will lose the war in Afghanistan.  We must change course with great haste. 

The alternative crops will help, and there are other ideas for alternative economies not mentioned here.  Yet we are not taking the opium threat seriously, and so we are subsidizing the enemy.  Western money will flow into Afghanistan no matter what, and we’ve seen what happens when we ignore where it goes. 


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Smash confronts the fools

Posted by Dawnsblood on Monday, September 18, 2006 8:12:37 PM
The Code Pink fools are forced to listen to reason and they do not like it!


"Not long after that, a couple of men who I am proud to call my brothers -- who I had never met before -- a couple of wounded soldiers from this hospital came down to talk to you. They wanted to understand why you're here.

"You did not treat my brothers with respect. You refused to acknowledge them, like you're refusing to acknowledge me. You mocked their southern accents. You literally turned your backs on them, like you're turning your backs on me tonight.

Smash did indead "Fire for Effect"




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Liberal denial...

Posted by Dawnsblood on Monday, September 18, 2006 6:42:59 PM
Marc Schulman over at American Future as an interesting portion from Sam Harris who considers himself liberal. The except come from a book Sam wrote called: The End of Faith: Religon, Terro and the Future of Reason:

I am here to report that liberals and conservatives respond very differently to the notion that religion can be a direct cause of human conflict.

This difference does not bode well for the future of liberalism . . .

. . . my correspondence with liberals has convinced me that liberalism has grown dangerously out of touch with the realities of our world — specifically with what devout Muslims actually believe about the West, about paradise and about the ultimate ascendance of their faith.

On questions of national security, I am now as wary of my fellow liberals as I am of the religious demagogues on the Christian right.

This may seem like frank acquiescence to the charge that "liberals are soft on terrorism." It is, and they are.

Much more at Marc's place.
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The Pope Incident gets hot in Europe.

Posted by Dawnsblood on Sunday, September 17, 2006 7:51:15 PM
The Gateway Pundit has a lot of links, but I wanted to share this bit:

In a scathing attack, barely 48 hours after a Somali Islamic cleric called for Muslims to kill the Pope for his Tuesday utterances, Archbishop Christodoulos told a sermon in Athens that Christians in Africa were suffering at the hands of 'fanatic Islamists'.

I can't help but think Oriana Falaci wound be proud of the Pope. She said this about him:

“I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.” I had asked Ms. Fallaci whether there was any contemporary leader she admired, and Pope Benedict XVI was evidently a man in whom she reposed some trust. “I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It’s that simple! There must be some human truth here that is beyond religion.” Writes Tunku Varadarajan […]The scant hopes that she has for the West she rests on [Benedict]…Last year, he wrote an essay titled “If Europe Hates Itself,” from which Ms. Fallaci reads this to me: “The West reveals . . . a hatred of itself, which is strange and can only be considered pathological; the West . . . no longer loves itself; in its own history, it now sees only what is deplorable and destructive, while it is no longer able to perceive what is great and pure.”

“Ecco!” she says. A man after her own heart. “Ecco!”


Lots of additional info at both links.

Addendum: Our friends at The American Thinker go into great detail on Manuel II.
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A Jacksonian Retreat

Posted by Dawnsblood on Sunday, September 17, 2006 6:06:10 PM
I have make a big deal in the past that retreat in Iraq and Afganistan is not an option in any situation. I may have not thought that entirely through.  A Jacksonian over at his blog Dumb Looks Still Free, makes an excellent case for staying, but if we have to compromise and accept a retreat...

So, to those that want retreat The Jacksonian Party proposes a Jacksonian Retreat.

I assure you, that you will not like it.

If you think that we should leave Iraq and put troops in Afghanistan then The Jacksonian Party supports one, and only ONE option: it must go overland through IRAN.

Iran has given the United States at least five legitimate Cassus Belli so that we may dispose of it as We wish: Tehran embassy invasion and kidnappings, First Beirut Embassy Bombing, Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut, Second Beirut Embassy Bombing, Khobar Towers Bombing.

Iran has given the United States cause for War and proven itself to be an illegitimate State and HOSTILE to the United States. Some may quiver and quaver and become faint of heart saying that it 'has been too long to hold Iran accountable for their actions'. In this real world of diplomacy and Nation State interaction there is one concept that is SUPREME amongst Nations when cause for war is given: it has NO statute of limitations. Iran has not and does not apologize for its hostile actions and until they have satisfied the United States in being held accountable we are free to march through their territory any time WE d@mn well please to.

Iran continues to supply and harbor terrorists and gives aid and comfort to those out to destroy freedom and liberty. Iran supports a return to Empire which they call Caliphate. Iran is an enemy of free people across this entire planet and endangers freedom through its Foreign Legions Hezbollah all the way to the Our Shores and the Mahdi Army in Iraq. If Iran attempts to stop US troops from moving across Iran the United States may freely destroy them as Hostile elements of a rogue regime aiming to destroy the United States.

As the US Armed Forces move through Iran We may decide to inspect some of the facilities there. That is part of what comes with being an enemy of the United States: being open and letting yourself be inspected so that We can be assured that you are not working more actively against Us.

Read it all. It is good.
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Bush is right...

Posted by Dawnsblood on Friday, September 15, 2006 11:45:58 PM
No BS from me... listen to the President.
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I finally got it!

Posted by Dawnsblood on Friday, September 15, 2006 9:04:30 PM
Barnes and Noble finally got my order in. It took them a week but I begin reading 'The Blog of War' this weekend. You can buy it here. 10 miles from the front gate of a major military base and it take a week for me to get it. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!  Blogging will be light this weekend I believe...

Update: Major E and his wife were interviewed recently on CNN. He is a contributor to Blog of War.
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