Parts of Iraq starting turning around in the fall of ’06 when Sunnis finally had enough of al-Qaeda’s bloody brutality and starting switching sides to fight with the US against the Islamo Facists. This turn of events (not the US election in 2006, which just happened to coincidentally happen at the same time) presented the […]

After a year of hard work and sacrifice in Iraq this year which helped turn things around in that country what is Congress giving in return to all those in and out of uniform to make it happen? Well their Christmas present from Reid and Pelosi will be pink slips under the tree: Federal employees […]

OK, this is wild and very curious: “Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee L. Hastings resigned from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday. Mac Ranger noted the story and is as perplexed as I am. Was this a forced resignation halfway through the Congressional Session? It’s not like Hastings doesn’t have ‘a past’.

The Washington Post is out this morning with story quoting intel officials who admit that the conclusion that Iran’s nuclear weapons program is still suspended was not a consensus view (hence the low confidence it was given), but was in fact challenged by key elements of the intelligence community: McConnell said his objective in preparing […]

Wild Speculation Alert: I have listed a lot of coincidental and circumstantial evidence in this post folks. I feel compelled to warn everyone when I see links to this NIE and Valerie Plame! It seems the NIE was NOT a consensus view of the US Intelligence Community but a hack job by some folks with […]

I am wondering if the same mental fog and political ambition that blinded the Intel Community to 9-11 (and the fall of the Soviet Union, the WMDs Iraq (both the nukes NOT being there in the 1990’s and then the nukes being there in 2002) is at work again in this questionably timed leak of […]

I am pretty sure the Russian people support Putin and his policies and did vote for him his party in large numbers. I am also damn sure the voters in Chechnya are NOT supportive of Putin since they continue to vie for succession from the Russian Federation. So the election results from Chechnya are clear […]

We have seen months of declining violence in Iraq as al-Qaeda’s one time allies – and continuously victims – have turned against them. Now al-Qaeda has decided to go for broke in Iraq and increase their massacring of fellow Muslims. They must think this is the only way to avoid defeat, since their defeat in […]

Boy, the indications from Iraq on what has really been happening in that country since al-Qaeda tried to destabilize it with mass bombings and attacks on Shiia religious sites is sometimes just stunning. The ‘conventional wisdom’ (a.k.a. liberal delusions promulgated in the SurrenderMedia) has been the refugees from Iraq have were chased out by the […]

Iraq has determined, given the progress in purging the Islamo Fascists associated with al-Qaeda, that the US presence in Iraq can be dialed back at the end of 2008: The Iraqi Cabinet agreed Tuesday to ask the United Nations to extend the authorization for U.S.-led forces in Iraq through the end of next year, but […]