Category: Iraq War

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Podcast Show Notes

The U.S. Government hands Anbar over to the Iraqis.

Why the Democrats are losing pro-lifers.

Connecticut Republicans attacked entering the Republican Convention. (Hat Tip: Red State.)

More ACORN voter fraud from …

Below you will find one of the finest groups of men in which America is honored to be considered their home. Eight of them shall undertake the grueling task of going back to Iraq to report about the situation on …

I read something this evening that I had not heard about anywhere else expect over at Blackfive’s. He led me over to Mrs. Greyhawk’s wonderful article at the Mudville Gazette that distinguishes the true difference between Sen. Obama – a …

by Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON (June 24, 2008) — The surge in Iraq has been a success by any measure, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said during a news conference June 23. The policy, announced by President Bush in …

by Capt. Robin Worch
1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs

SAMAWA, Iraq (July 28, 2008) – More than 500 tribal leaders gathered in Samawa to discuss upcoming Iraqi elections and issues affecting their tribes, July 16. “This is the spirit of democracy that …

-By Warner Todd Huston

** Now With Update… A Soldier Speaks **

The New York Times is miffed. They aren’t happy that there has been a dearth of news photos showing dead American soldiers in the war in Iraq. The Times is lamenting that there have been “4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images,” so more carnage and death is their druthers. Well, more American dead, anyway. They aren’t interested in the dead of the enemy, to be sure.

Using the story of photog Zoriah Miller who had his embed status removed when he publicized photos of dead U.S. Marines after a suicide bombing, the Times reveals their pique over the fact that not enough dead Americans have been peddled to the American public. The Times denounces the military for protecting the troops and their families saying, “after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead American soldiers.”

Complaining for opponents of the war that the lack of casualty photos has created a a situation where the “public portrayal of the war is being sanitized,” the Times wonders if the homefront is being badly served because we here are not seeing the “human cost of a war that polls consistently show is unpopular with Americans.”

How the Times can imagine that the anti-war set aren’t getting their opinions out to the public is anyone’s guess. And how the Times can imagine that the “human cost of war” is being “sanitized” is also a puzzlement. After all, for the last four years and until recently we had been daily treated to the media’s recital of the American body count, letting us know just how many Americans had died. Again, the body count of the enemy didn’t interest them at all.

Of course, the story of photographer Miller seems compelling… at least to the Times. His photos showed the after math and success of a suicide bombing and this is precisely why the military didn’t want his photos shown to the world.

Podcast Show Notes

Conservatives and liberals alike go after the late Jesse Helms for political gain.

Why a Democratic-led Congress will most likely be re-elected despite a 9% approval rating and what that shows about the success of purely …

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Troops re-enlisting in Iraq today.  God bless them all. (Hat Tip: Hot Air.)

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Barack Obama topples Hillary Clinton and is the Democratic nominee.

What a McCain victory means for conservatives.

Bob Barr tells racists to …