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Sep 24 2007

al-Qaeda Has Lost Iraq

I predicted back in late March that al-Qaeda’s bloodlust would be its undoing. Here is what I wrote: If the Sunni’s in the al Qaeda stronghold start taking out al Qaeda (as I predicted they might after al Qaeda basically was left to only kill Muslims in chemical weapons attacks) then we have hit a […]

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Sep 07 2007

Momentum Is A Factor In Iraq

Too many people, but especially politicians, lawyers and journalists, have forgotten the concept of momentum and acceleration – and how it applies to public opinion. Momentum is the phenomenon that says once a thing is in motion, it requires force to deflect it or reverse its motion. Left on its own it will continue on […]

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Sep 03 2007

Petraeus And Iraq, What We Will Hear About Our Future

The Bush administration is going to be heading to Congress with a powerful story of success in Iraq. We have not achieved victory, but we have turned a few corners on the way there. First and foremost is the change in perception the Muslim street in Iraq has as it relates to al-Qaeda. al-Qaeda is […]

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Aug 24 2007

The Battle For Islam Is At Hand

As we saw al-Qaeda being rejected across Iraq by the local Iraqis, al-Qaeda decided to turn to bombing, kiling and maiming innocent Muslims to try and re-establish authority in regions where they once had support. They did not trying to gain support or demonstrate a better option, they tried to exert control through the jackboot […]

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Aug 15 2007

al-Qaeda Losing Fighters, On Many Fronts, To Disillusionment

The Iraq war is having a profoundly negative effect on al-Qaeda in the eyes of the Muslim world. In no small part this is due to the endless brutality and mayhem al-Qaeda is inflicting on Muslims in Iraq, as today’s headlines clearly illustrate: Four truck bombs exploded in two Iraqi villages in a Kurdish-speaking area […]

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Aug 13 2007

Surge Produces Impressive Drop In Carnage

al-Qaeda long ago surpassed the American death toll it achieved for 9-11 with a Muslim death toll that is just stunning. We can figure this out by looking at the impressive drop in al-Qaeda bombings in Iraq: he number of truck bombs and other large al-Qaeda-style attacks in Iraq have declined nearly 50% since the […]

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Aug 12 2007

Iraq Turning Into A Success As Diyala Province Transforms

Two of the largest strongholds of al-Qaeda and Sunni insurgency have been declared a success in terms of the Surge’s military goals. First Anbar Province went from capitol of al-Qaeda’s modern caliphate to a shining example of how our fortunes in Iraq could change when the local population rises up, out of rejection of al-Qaeda’s […]

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Aug 10 2007

Things Continue To Progress In Iraq

The path towards a success in Iraw is still be travelled as events continue to head in the direction we need to actually have a huge success in Iraq. First off just look at this long listing of actions against al-Qaeda and their allies. So many it makes no sense to snip a few here […]

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Aug 09 2007

Faulty Iraq News

To illustrate the ignorance of the media at times regarding Iraq check out this mistake in an article concerning events in Iraq: Also in Anbar province, another US marine died on Tuesday in a non-combat incident, the US military said Thursday. Baquba, the capital of Anbar province, is some 60 kilometres north of Baghdad. Actually, […]

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Aug 07 2007

British General Adds His Voice In Support Of The Surge

Maybe the liberal media will listen to the views of a British General just returned from Iraq on his first hand account of how things are going in Iraq: The war for Iraq can still be won — as long as we continue to persevere. That is the opinion of Britain’s top general in Iraq, […]

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