This is a really good piece from BlackFive.net regarding the necessity of Iraqi’s perceiving the Iraqi government as legitimate. There is an important concept needed to understand the negotiations — both formal ones, and those using the press as a proxy...
Even knowing what he knows now, Barack Obama would not have supported the Surge. Gateway Pundit has more. Related Reading: Next Time You Go to Europe, Try Not to Embarrass Barack Obama Why Does Barack Obama Hate Me Just Because I’m Young? Examining Barack Obama’s...
The Iraq War isn’t over yet. The debate over how and when it will end mostly is. A few years ago, while discussing the failure of the U.S. Armed Forces to have enough up-armored humvees, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld uttered an infamous quote about...
This is pretty interesting. Michael Yon, the author of Moment of Truth in Iraq, who has probably spent as much or more time in Iraq over the past five years than any journalist is calling the end of the Iraq War. The war continues to abate in Iraq. Violence is still...
By Barack Obama: The call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated,...
