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Iraq and the General War on Terror
The Corner ^
| 6/1/08
| Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 06/01/2008 6:46:46 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
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To: Dawnsblood
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posted on
06/01/2008 6:56:28 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: Dawnsblood
Great post. Hanson nails it.
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posted on
06/01/2008 6:58:49 PM PDT
by
BOBTHENAILER
(One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
To: Dawnsblood
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posted on
06/01/2008 7:01:58 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: Dawnsblood
Yes, for an old Stainist, his is right on top of this one...:)
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posted on
06/01/2008 7:03:19 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Clinging bitterly to Guns and God in Massachusetts...:)
To: Dawnsblood
This matches with the internal intelligence analysts I’ve read.
After all the problems with CIA, all the intelligence sources are providing honest feedback as an CYA. AQ is mostly toast. No doubt about it. They would never, ever say it unless it was so, since a big attack now would prove them all liars and end their careers.
AQ has expended their last load trying to pull another “tet”, but no one noticed.
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posted on
06/01/2008 7:30:31 PM PDT
by
Wiseghy
("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
To: Dawnsblood
Unwillingness to take responsibility for the consequences of their decisions is the common denominator of pacifists. Click below for a perspective on the breed.
Congressman Billybob
Latest article, "The War about War"
To: rlmorel
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posted on
06/01/2008 7:53:38 PM PDT
by
Elsiejay
(Rev.)
To: Dawnsblood
Bush Derangement Syndrome
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posted on
06/01/2008 7:57:40 PM PDT
by
VRWC For Truth
(No mas Juan "Traitor Rat" McAmnesty)
To: Elsiejay
LOL...umm...a maoist who cannot get his pants down fast enough???
I just mistyped...I meant a “Stalinist”
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posted on
06/01/2008 7:59:06 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Clinging bitterly to Guns and God in Massachusetts...:)
To: Dawnsblood
Perhaps the imminent closure of Club Gitmo is bad for recruiting?
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posted on
06/01/2008 8:00:37 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Huma for co-president!)
To: Congressman Billybob
I remember when someone said, "Bring 'em on" and words to the effect, "Better to fight 'em over there than here." He threw in some other pearls of wisdom, too.
yitbos
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posted on
06/01/2008 8:44:34 PM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds." - Ayn Rand)
To: Elsiejay
“What is a Stainist?”
—
That’s a lousy saxophone player, lousy golfer, gigolo and, as it happens, President of the U.S. who uses a teenager’s dress as a napkin.
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posted on
06/01/2008 9:10:56 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
To: Congressman Billybob
That was an excellent article. Mr. Paine seemed very unhappy with the US later on though. My best:)
To: BOBTHENAILER; Congressman Billybob
For perspective, what the news media *isn’t* saying is that over in the peaceful beach paradise of Brazil, 104 people are shot dead each night.
You read that right; each night. 38,000 people per year are being shot to death in Rio and its sister Brazilian cities.
...but in the Iraq war zone...the U.S. lost 15 soldiers to combat (19 overall) in the entire month of May.
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posted on
06/01/2008 9:40:11 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Southack
For perspective, what the news media *isnt* saying is that over in the peaceful beach paradise of Brazil, 104 people are shot dead each night.Yep The "Perception Management" MSM can fool some of the people some of the time, but not us. Makes me wanna holler.
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posted on
06/02/2008 5:52:40 AM PDT
by
BOBTHENAILER
(One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
To: Dawnsblood; neverdem; Lando Lincoln; quidnunc; .cnI redruM; SJackson; dennisw; monkeyshine; ...
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posted on
06/03/2008 2:01:39 PM PDT
by
Tolik
To: Dawnsblood
If it continues to work the Iraq intervention will be considered a geostrategic ploy as significant as the Marshall Plan. That may take years to emerge, sadly because such a large percentage of media and academia have grown bloated and incapable of admitting that their members were mistaken.
This won't solve the Middle East's problems, and it was never intended to do so. But it may stop what seemed five years ago like an inevitable slide into Lebanon-style bloody chaos, wherein a police state under a tyrant would be regarded as a welcome relief. There are parts of the Middle East where even now that slide seems inevitable. Iraq isn't one of them.
To: Dawnsblood
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posted on
06/03/2008 2:29:20 PM PDT
by
Skooz
(Any nation that would elect Hillary Clinton as its president has forfeited its right to exist.)
To: Tolik
To one of my all time friends - thanks for faithfully keeping me on your ping lists.
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