Tag Archive | "Iraq"
J.G. Thayer: Declaring Victory in the Jaws of Defeat
Arab nations have a habit of denying obvious military losses. Saddam Hussein declared victory in the aftermath of the Gulf War. He had been thoroughly defeated, his forces crushed and driven out of Kuwait, and he was forced to accept severe restrictions, sanctions, and conditions in exchange for being left in power — but he [...]
Continue reading...James Kirchick: Bush never lied to us about Iraq
Published Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Yet Rockefeller’s highly partisan report does not substantiate its most explosive claims. Rockefeller, for instance, charges that “top administration officials made repeated statements that falsely linked Iraq and Al Qaeda as a single threat and insinuated that Iraq played a role in 9/11.” Yet what did his report actually find? That Iraq-Al Qaeda links were [...]
Continue reading...‘Bush Lied’? If Only It Were That Simple.
Published Monday, June 9, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Search the Internet for "Bush Lied" products, and you will find sites that offer more than a thousand designs. The basic "Bush Lied, People Died" bumper sticker is only the beginning. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, set out to provide the official foundation for what has become [...]
Continue reading...Orson Scott Card: A Stand-up President
Published Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 7:38 pm
George W. Bush has made plenty of mistakes. Probably the biggest one was thinking that just because he could get along with Democrats in Texas, he could get along with Democrats in Congress. Silly man! Democrats in Texas care about governing Texas. Democrats in Congress care only about gaining political advantage. Slow learner, there, Mr. [...]
Continue reading...David Gelernter: Defeat at Any Price
Published Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 9:57 am
It’s time for Americans to ask some big questions. Do leading Democrats want America to win this war? Have they ever? Of course not–and not because they are traitors. To leading Democrats such as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Al Gore and John Edwards, America would be better off if [...]
Continue reading...Fouad Ajami: Iraqis of all sects report progress, not civil war
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:45 am
We were in Baghdad, and the sheikh gave me his narrative. There was both candor and evasion in the story he told. Al Qaeda and its Arab jihadists had found sanctuary and support in the Anbar; they had recruited the “criminal elements” and the “lowly,” they had brought zeal and bigotry unknown to the Iraqis. [...]
Continue reading...Victor Davis Hanson: Why It’s So Hard to Win
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:42 am
Is it five or ten or fifteen — years that are necessary to win wars of counterinsurgency such as Iraq? By now, Americans are well acquainted with such warnings that patience — along with political and economic reforms, not just arms — defeats guerrillas. In these messy fights, Western nations can’t, for both practical and [...]
Continue reading...Charles Krauthammer: Petraeus’s Success
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:40 am
When asked about Shiite militia domination of southern Iraq, Petraeus patiently went through the four provinces, one by one, displaying a degree of knowledge of the local players, terrain, and balance of power that no one in Washington — and few in Iraq — could match. When Biden thought he had a gotcha — contradictions [...]
Continue reading...Ann Coulter: From the halls of Malibu to the shores of Kennedy
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:28 am
But liberals soon began raising yet more pointless quibbles. For most of 2003, they said the war was a failure because we hadn’t captured Saddam Hussein. Then we captured Saddam, and Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean complained that “the capture of Saddam has not made America safer.” (On the other hand, Howard Dean’s failure to [...]
Continue reading...Charles Krauthammer: Iraq divided
Published Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 9:27 am
It took political Washington a good six months to catch up to the fact that something significant was happening in Iraq’s Anbar province, where the former-insurgent Sunni tribes switched sides and joined the fight against al-Qaeda. Not surprisingly, Washington has not yet caught up to the next reality: Iraq is being partitioned — and, like [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 2:40 pm
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