Tag: surge
member name: John M.
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January 10, 2007 08:36 AM EST --
In my last article Middle Eastern Trump Card I discussed a revised view of where we are in the Middle East and how it could be used to our advantage. Todays Wall Street Journal had a column that comes . . . more
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January 30, 2007 09:31 AM EST --
Today's New York Times contained an article titled "The Growing Chorus of Antiwar Conservatives" by Bruce Bartlett.
What follows are sections of that piece which names well known conservatives . . . more
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January 02, 2007 09:11 AM EST --
The President is bending belatedly but he is not changing. For the first year of Bush's adventure in Iraq he, through and because of Rumsfeld's unshakable conviction that just enough was good enough, . . . more
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January 06, 2007 09:49 AM EST --
Who said George Bush will never change? He is about to beef up our military presence in Baghdad by some 20,000 soldiers. Military commanders in Iraq are being taken out of the game and being replaced by . . . more
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April 29, 2007 09:47 AM EDT --
Rebuilding Iraq: Wall by Wall
"Adhamiya is becoming one of many walled and gated communities in Iraq; the Americans have been building them for months. Gen. David Petraeus, the counterinsurgency specialist . . . more
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December 21, 2006 10:20 AM EST --
I wish the world was a simple place where matters were straight forward and obvious. Wouldn't it be satisfying if everything was exactly the way it appeared on the surface? But no, more often then . . . more
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January 08, 2007 11:16 AM EST --
Yesterday on "Meet the Press" Joe Biden debated Lindsay Graham about the Presidents, not yet fully revealed plan for a troop surge in Iraq. The widely respected Lindsay, who never once interrupted . . . more
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January 18, 2007 08:26 AM EST --
Today's New Haven Register provides line and verse about the upcoming demolition of the New Haven Coliseum. The accompanying diagrams reveal each supporting column that will be blasted and the sequential . . . more
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January 25, 2007 05:07 PM EST --
This afternoon I watched a replay of Charlie Rose interviewing JohnÂÂÂ
Burns of the New York Times who has been in Iraq for four and a half years. I listened carefully to . . . more
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January 30, 2007 10:46 PM EST --
Would a non binding Congressional vote in opposition to the surge truly embolden the enemy? The foreign press covers events in this country like a glove. The news about the opposition to the Presidents . . . more
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April 13, 2007 10:36 AM EDT --
In today's Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer makes the case that there is a meaningful change for the better in Anbar province where the Sunni population has turned against Al Qaeda and in Baghdad . . . more
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April 25, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
In an editorial piece the Wall Street Journal today prospectively calls Iraq, "Harry's War".
Their point is that if we withdraw despite protests by the President the Democrats would be . . . more
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July 03, 2007 11:09 AM EDT --
Suppose you had a top professional baseball pitcher who had been fitted for new contact lenses and suppose that by mistake the contacts that were actually handed over to him were those of another patient. . . . more
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January 26, 2007 09:22 PM EST --
Iran in Iraq
Today, to my surprise, I heard from a retired military strategist that Iran has hundreds of thousands of it's people in Iraq. Our military has been very recently instructed to capture . . . more
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February 24, 2007 10:04 AM EST --
For the longest time I was naive enough to believe that if things got really impossible in and around Iraq, even George Bush and his hard core supporters would come to the realization, painful though it . . . more
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January 09, 2007 09:55 AM EST --
We have all been so dispirited by events in Iraq that our cloud of national gloom has obstructed the view of any possible rays of the sun. Well, my friends, the sun is always shining, whether or not it . . . more
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January 25, 2007 09:46 AM EST --
In todays edition of the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger assesses the the national mood as fatalistic. "The United States is talking itself into defeat in Iraq. Its political culture is now . . . more
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June 07, 2007 10:04 AM EDT --
It was not very long ago that Americans were debating whether the fighting taking place in Iraq constituted a civil war. In an absurdest turn of events, that same debate is about to surface here in the . . . more
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February 07, 2007 10:29 AM EST --
In today's Washington Post David Ignacius advises that we should begin immediately preparing for the worst in Iraq. If it's true, as many have come to believe, that Iraq is coming apart and there . . . more
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February 08, 2007 11:23 AM EST --
In today's Wall Street Journal, James Taranto in an article makes the point that it is far better to have someone with resolve who is steadfast in the White House even when he or she is wrong than . . . more
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