Jun
15
2008
A woman Democrat party delegate from Wisconsin has publicly announced she cannot stomach an Obama presidency and therefore will vote for John McCain this fall: As an avid supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries, Debra Bartoshevich is not alone in her frustration over Clinton’s defeat. She’s not alone in refusing to support […]
Jun
14
2008
 Obama is green and naive. Has never had to actually run a competitive race. When he won his state senate seat he knee-capped a respected liberal woman icon and had all other contenders tossed off the ballot. Obama ran unopposed. When he won his US Senate seat partisan judges went and opened up the […]
Jun
14
2008
If you fire on US assets – even armed robot airplanes – you will pay the price: An unmanned drone aircraft launched a missile after coming under fire from the ground in Pakistan’s tribal belt bordering Afghanistan Saturday, killing one militant, officials said. The incident in Makeen, in the insurgency-hit South Waziristan tribal region, comes […]
Jun
14
2008
A couple of weeks ago Iraqi (Arab) Shiite-cleric-in-hiding (in Iraq with his Persian Shiite hosts) Moqtada al-Sadr called for weekly protests against the American “occupation”. Â This was Sadr’s last gasp as Sadr City fell under Iraqi control and the Mahdi Militia were beaten back in their main stronghold in Sadr City. Â This was only a […]
Jun
13
2008
Updates Below I posted on the events that took place this week on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan the involved an hours long fire fight between US forces-Afghan forces and Pakistan-Taliban forces here, here, here, here and here. Â To summarize I speculated that the Pak Frontier Corps (FC) outpost that was supposedly attacked […]
Jun
13
2008
Looks like the US-NATO took out another hive of foreign fighters in Afghanistan: Afghan officials say 31 people have died in air strikes in eastern Afghanistan. Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary says most of the 31 people were foreign fighters. But a legislator from Paktika named Khalid Farooqi says at least nine civilians were killed. […]
Jun
13
2008
Many weeks ago I predicted Obama would not get much of a bump out of his nomination, and in fact would start to fade as sufficient numbers of Clinton supporters (mostly older woman) made good on their threats and bolted the Democrats after the beating Hillary took at the hands of male liberals. Â The […]
Jun
13
2008
This is Part III in series of posts on why you don’t address rumors that are false, you let them die a lonely death without proof. Â In Part I of this series on how not to run a Presidential campaign (which shows how a candidate is not ready to be President I might add) […]
Jun
13
2008
Reader Crosspatch (one of the most informed and observant people I have ever dealt with) noted events percolating in Iraq as the Iraqis are staging their forces for a crackdown and sweep of a city known to be a center for Iranian weapons smuggling into Iraq. Iraqi forces are said to be massing at the […]
Jun
13
2008
After the border incident in Afghanistan (where Pakistan based insurgents crossed the border, took on US Forces, were beaten back and then retreated to Pakistan – drawing US fire with them) the US has not slowed the pace of actions against the last militant strongholds in Afghanistan: An anti-insurgents operation of the U.S.-led Coalition forces […]