Bush Speaks on Eve of Iraq Invasion Anniversary
Homework assignment: Read the speech at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060313-3.html and comment on it. What do you think? Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, March 13, 2006
Monday, March 6, 2006
Captured Documents Reveal Extent of Saddam's Support for Terrorism
The Weekly Standard has a lengthy story about what is being learned from captured documents about the breadth of Saddam's sponsorship of terrorism. For instance, his regime "trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Why return to the Air Force Academy after winter break?
Why return to the Air Force Academy after winter break? Returning freshmen had the chore of writing a paper on why they chose to return to cadet life. I hope this kid's hands in an airplane turn out half as good as his brains are as a freshman at the Air Force Academy:... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, January 8, 2006
Where's the anti-war crowd on this one?
World's Deadliest War Since 1945, 4 Million Dead Every few months the mortality equivalent of two southeast Asian tsunamis plows through this African nation. 38,000 Perish in the Republic of Congo Each Month! 4 Million have died in Congo since 1998! The Congo conflict is the deadliest humanitarian... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Why We Fight - A Comparison of World War II and the War on Terror
This lengthy essay is by Raymond Kraft Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had sunk more than four hundred British ships in their convoys between England and America for food and war materials. Bushido... Sign in to see full entry.
Iraqi WMDs a Myth? Maybe You'd Better Think Again . . .
Look what our people found buried under ten feet of sand at the former al Taqqadum Iraqi Air Force air field west of Baghdad: http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/sandplanes.asp#photo01 I put the question to you: If the Iraqis could bury 30 to 40 airplanes, why could they not bury chemical and... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
So Saddam is hacked that he doesn't have fresh clothes . . .
... nor a shower, not - oh, the humanity of it all! - not even an exercise area! Poor little Saddammi! I'm sure he was that concerned over such comforts for the inmates on his torture chambers and rape rooms before we threw his sorrry ass in jail. Why we fight? Free Iraq is a huge reason why. Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, December 3, 2005
For Those Who Think Nothing is Worth War
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Wow! A Democrat Gets it Right on the War!
And a New England Democrat at that! Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Connecticut) has written a brilliant editorial for the Wall Street Journal that very effectively dismantles the entire argument of his party that we have lost in Iraq, that we are powerless against the terrorists, that no progress has been... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Git’mo Detainees: Innocent Nice Guys, or Terrorists?
The anti-war crowd loves to portray the detainees incarcerated at Guantanemo as fine and upstanding men who are completely innocent and are being wrongfully imprisoned. Here, from an eyewitness account of urban combat in Mosul by Michael Yon, is a little yarn about one of these wonderful men. The... Sign in to see full entry.