Hillary has shown why she will never be President. She is acknowledging the Surge is working (primarily because Iraqis are rising up against al-Qaeda and if not sending in tips taking up arms to destroy al-Qaeda), but her knee jerk, idiotic reaction is to surrender to al-Qaeda anyway! New military tactics in Iraq are working […]

Yes, I am bullish on Iraq turning into a reasonable success. I am confident the turn of the tide with Iraqis aligning against al-Qaeda is going to make the difference. The levels of violence are dropping where al-Qaeda has been pushed out of the region, and the Muslim street is starting to oppose the random […]

The latest ‘tip’ from fed up Iraqis, who have determined to fight al-Qaeda instead of provide them support and sanctuary within their midsts, has netted a large number of al-Qaeda members attending what must have been a serious gathering given the numbers: raqi Security Forces and 8th Iraqi Army Scouts, with U.S. Special Forces as […]

This Democrat Congress has been a stark reminder of why it was a good move to remove the Dems from power in 1994, after decades of incompetence and relying on a compliant media to keep their waining power intact. I tend to find it hard to believe people who can traverse the complications of political […]

Want to know how desperately some left tilting people will go to deny Iraq is turning around? They will go so far as to call General Petraeus a betrayer of America: AFTER being hailed as King David, the potential saviour of Iraq, the US commander General David Petraeus is facing a backlash in advance of […]

Things must be going really bad for the Shiia Mahdi Militias in Iraq because Iran apparently has sent a good sized force into Iraq: merican forces are tracking about 50 members of an elite Iranian force who have crossed the border into southern Iraq to train Shiite militia fighters, a top U.S. general said Sunday. […]

A few days ago Der Spiegel published the story of Donkey Island near Ramadi, Anbar Province, Iraq (my post on the story is here). As I said before, the Battle for Donkey Island was a microscosm of the Iraq war right now and could be one of history’s ironic moments. It is ironic because Donkey […]

Update: Quinnipiac sees the same dismal numbers for Congress with 20% approval, 70% disapproval. – end update In this poll of Floridian voters I detect what is probably the national mood on many topics. What is shows is increasing support for Bush and Congress continues to free-fall as they demonstrate their impotence and lack of […]

al-Qaeda has been chased from large population centers in Anbar and Diyala Provinces (as well as others around Baghdad) to the point where they are now dispersed into small, temporary enclaves. Much of this has been due to the fact the local Iraqis are turning en masse against al-Qaeda. Many are tipping authorities off to […]

Updates below link new sites to Litvinenko – not Lugovoi – and point to Litvinenko as source of Po-210 contamination. From my first post on the Litvinenko story I had serious doubts about the planned PR nature of the Litvinenko death and the idea an assassin would use such an unstable, slow acting and detectable […]