Bookworm on Jul 30 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Barack Obama, Iraq
Before today, I hadn’t heard of Frank Turek. After today, I’m going to keep an eye out for his articles. He’s written a really splendid article explaining how deeply, terribly wrong Obama’s every position is regarding Iraq. Frankly, for those who are well-informed, there’s nothing in this article you haven’t seen before. I’m just impressed [...]
Bookworm on Jul 29 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Congress
I was out this morning getting my oil changed — and learning that it will cost almost $2,000 to fix my car from its recent run-in with a low post. When I got home, I found an interesting message on my answering machine.
It’s the recorded voice of Dennis Kucinich begging me to “Press 1 now” [...]
Bookworm on Jul 25 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Democrats, Iraq
In light of the Surge’s manifest success, John Hawkins, of Right Wing News, has written a column that assembles many of the Democratic gloom and doom predictions about the Surge when it was first proposed. Makes for interesting reading in that it exposes the profound ignorance and ideological blindness coming from the Left.
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Bookworm on Jul 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Obama campaign is clearly a masterful example of the illusionist’s art. As you may recall, he managed to get the press to tout one of his rallies as one of the largest political rallies ever, although it subsequently emerged that it was mostly a big rock band event. He’s also barred women in Islamic veils [...]
Bookworm on Jul 02 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Media matters
The story is amazing and the source — the normally anti-American Spiegel (a German magazine) — is equally amazing. According to this story, things in Baghdad are going really well, and the citizens have a renewed sense of well-being and purpose:
There is an unexpected air of normalcy prevailing in Baghdad these days, with consumption flourishing [...]
Bookworm on Jun 09 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Barack Obama, Iraq, John McCain
Frederick Kagan has a fascinating comparison of the specific Iraq policy plans McCain and Obama advanced before the Surge. McCain actually envisioned a surge-like event, and described all the positive benefits that would flow from it — and his predictions proved to be completely accurate. Obama, of course, demanded retreat and defeat. Given the success [...]
Bookworm on Apr 22 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Leftist morality
My favorite quotation of the day, from a Dennis Prager column: “The Vietnam War did to American liberals what World War I did to most Europeans — it rendered them anti-war rather than anti-evil.” In one sentence, he’s summed up just about every fallacy that makes it so that liberals are bound and determined to [...]
Bookworm on Apr 18 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Iraq, Media matters
The news story was the beating the Iranian thugs and terrorists took in Basra. But there was another type of thuggery going on, too, and Ralph Peters attacks it with a righteous zeal:
LIKE many Americans, I get angry at biased “reporting” about Iraq and the spin from dishonest pundits. Usually, I get over it [...]
Bookworm on Apr 11 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Congress, Democrats
Michael Yon, who appropriately boasts that he is probably the most experienced reporter in Iraq, reminds us that Congress must stop obsessing about the past in Iraq and must approach Iraq as a winnable situation. He begins by detailing the enormous strides — both practical and “hearts and mind” stuff — that Americans have [...]
Bookworm on Apr 06 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Iraq, Media matters, Military
A couple of nights ago, I watched a Frontline show entitled Bad Voodoo’s War, which followed a platoon of National Guard soldiers who were deployed to Iraq at the beginning of the Surge in 2007. The show’s editor/producer did not go to war with the men. Instead, she gave them video cameras, and they recorded [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Democrats, Iraq
Here’s the story:
Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
The three anti-war Democrats made the trip in October 2002, while the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq. While traveling, they called [...]
Bookworm on Mar 20 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war
As the SF Chron noted, the anti-War protests yesterday were pathetic shadows of their former selves:
In the morning, a crowd of about 500 people snaked its way through the Financial District, periodically prompting police to shut down intersections and city blocks and Muni officials to reroute buses.
Yet, despite the often creative costumes and messages, [...]
Bookworm on Mar 16 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Military
Our local paper, the Marin Independent Journal, has a surprisingly nice, fact-filled article about the uphill work of being an Army recruiter in Marin County. There’s a small amount of harassment, but mostly there’s just a huge lack of interest — which is sad, since Marin, as one of America’s most affluent areas, is at [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Media matters, Military
In the wake of past wars (pre-Vietnam), noncombatant men used to lie about having served as a way to increase their status: even though one of these confabulators might have spent the war as a sidings salesmen in Paducah, he could increase his standing amongst the credulous by claiming to have fought his way [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Military
Yesterday morning, in Berkeley, they were saying this:
“Murder, rape, torture, war. That’s what the Marines are for.”
and this:
“These are very dangerous people. They’re lying to their children, talking them into becoming killers.”
I noted that the mask had slipped, revealing that the “we support the troops, but not the war” line was simply a charade, aimed [...]
Bookworm on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Military
If you’re interested in up close pictures and eye-witness reporting from the goings-on in Berkeley, check out ProtestShooter. The pictures are from early in the day, so I can’t wait to see the next installment. My favorite photo was one that really didn’t have to do too much with the protest at all, [...]
Bookworm on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Military
Since the Iraq War began, the Left has attempted to disassociate itself from the ugliness of 1960s anti-War protests by repeating, over and over, “We love the troops. It’s just the War we hate.” That line always had a stilted quality, especial since we have a volunteer army, and our troops are willing [...]
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