The responses to the President’s speech from the “Bush lied, people died” crowd are just as we would expect - idiotic. None more than Slate’s Fred Kaplin who calls the speech “delusional”, even “Sheer fiction”! This even though exactly what President Bush presented is what Patraeus and Crocker reported on and which [...]

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Here they go, I’m telling you this is nothing. Pete Hegseth at the Weekly Standard writes:
“Tomorrow–as General David Petraeus provides his Iraq assessment to Congress–the antiwar group MoveOn.org is running a full-page advertisement in the New York Times under the headline: “General Petraeus or General Betray us? Cooking the books for the White House.”
Let’s [...]

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It’s fun to see the nutroots go ga-ga over something like this:
“Tomorrow night, after spending the day telling Congress that President Bush‚Äôs Iraq escalation should continue, Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker will take their PR campaign to a more comfortable setting: Fox News.”
Pathetic. You know for the left the wheels are coming [...]

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You know that when you determine a result on a faulty premise you get a faulty result. I commented on the GAO report last week which was drawn up by congressional democrats with an impossible set a standards. If you you told me that in order to be a pianist I would [...]

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At the crux of the cut and run democrat’s argument for retreat in Iraq is that George Bush got us into this terrible mess and well by god, let’s forget the whole thing and come home. They of course could care less about the troops, this is all political and designed for nothing [...]

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The new intelligence report which has the MSM huffing and puffing isn’t all that negative, and perhaps even more positive than negative. The main point made is that the surge is working, the Iraq troops are coming along performing adequately.
It’s not so glowing on Maliki, but then everyone knows that the politcal situation [...]

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The circus has already begun on the left and in the MSM over the “much anticipated report from General Patraeus and Ambassador Crocker”. The latest silliness is now where the report will be read.
“Senior congressional aides said yesterday that the White House has proposed limiting the much-anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill next [...]

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Apparently the people of Iraq have had enough:
“The U.S. strategy to build alliances with mostly Sunni tribal and local leaders has prompted 25,000 of their followers to turn away from the insurgency and at least nominally align with Iraq’s Shiite-led government in the fight against al-Qaeda.
The number, from the U.S. command in Iraq, represents the [...]

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You’ll remember that I told readers a month ago that the reason Harry and the Retreaters were carping about getting out of Iraq is that they knew that the surge just might work. Nothing could be more embarrassing or disasterous to Democrats in 2008 than a stable - reasonability stable - Iraq.
Over the [...]

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So says the bank, so says the experts who know of how important a victory in Iraq is. Back in June Harry and the Retreaters called the Iraq conflict lost and for all to pack it up and head home. Those with intelligence said, “Let’s wait, after all, General Patraeus has [...]

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