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Omar Has A Question
By haystack

Our great friends Omar and Mohammed want to know just exactly WHY the Democrats (and SOME Republicans) think:

My life and the lives of twenty-five other million Iraqis are evidently not worth trying for.

The full text of his article is over at Pajamas Media, and he genuinely wants to understand how it is our anti-war crowd has come to the conclusion that:

It’s not worth it.Time to leave. ....

Below the fold (newest items at the top):

• Get ready for "failure day"
• The White Feather Postcard Campaign
• Jack Murtha says: United States soldiers are liars!
• "Who Controls the Past Controls the Future..."

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Get ready for "failure day"
Greyhawk

"News" from the New York Times:

The White House Scales Back Talk of Iraq Progress

WASHINGTON, April 27 — The Bush administration will not try to assess whether the troop increase in Iraq is producing signs of political progress or greater security until September, and many of Mr. Bush’s top advisers now anticipate that any gains by then will be limited, according to senior administration officials.

Now I looked, but I can't find any news there.

But then again, I was paying attention in the early days of the surge. (January, within days of the announcement.) Back then reporters wanted to know from (then-MNF-I commander) General Casey exactly when they could call the operation a failure. Short version:

"What's your thinking about how long these additional troops will need to stay here?"

"It will be late summer before we see some results to cause us to make decisions."

But the headlines the next day read: "General: Some Troops Heading To Iraq Could Be Home In Months"

In reality (if not in the "reality based community") in spite of the passage of time Casey's comments are consistent with General Petraeus' this week: ...

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The White Feather Postcard Campaign
Gateway Pundit (Hat tips: Michelle, Lorie)

In the words of a Great American Thinker:

We live in a time of great moronitude. Morons, everywhere, rising from their morasses, massing and moving forward. In their multitudes, the morons march inexorably to the moronocy...

March, morons. March on...

Keeping this in mind... Reader Cornhusker thought that the best and easiest way to share your disgust for the moronocy of defeatists on the Left is to send each and everyone of them a White Feather postcard like the one below: ...

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Jack Murtha says: United States soldiers are liars!
It is time, now, for him to resign.
By Mark Kilmer (Hat tip: Dan Riehl)

As Erick pointed out yesterday, Congressman John Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, has becom[e] his antithesis. In 1974, he felt the wounds of Congress' slander and micromanagement of his fellow soldiers in Vietnam:

"I felt that the criticism at home, in and outside Congress, hurt the war effort. I still believe that very strongly."

He no longer believes this, of course. (At least we hope he doesn't) But, as Erick reported, he has added a new twist: the troops lie. Yes, John Kerry has called them stupid, and now Okinawa Jack has called them liars:

“There was a time when I had confidence in the military, but these guys have lied to us so much. They’re so intimidated by the White House.”

Murtha was blabbering about the supplemental the Democrats will send the President once he vetoes the current Pelosi-Murtha measure. (It was passed only as part of political game, of course, because they were very aware that it would not be signed.) Murtha said that the supplemental will be for either two months or five months. Because the military are all a bunch of liars, Murtha suggested, they are likely to go for the shorter appropriation. ...

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"Who Controls the Past Controls the Future..."
Hatched by Dafydd ab Hugh

"...Who controls the present controls the past."

I'm getting angrier and angrier about the brazen attempt by the elite media -- all of them -- to rewrite history... history that is so recent, the ink has barely dried. I was perusing the New York Times article on George Tenet's spit-and-tell biography, and I stumbled across this paragraph:

Mr. Tenet hints at some score-settling in the book. He describes in particular the extraordinary tension between him and Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser, and her deputy, Stephen J. Hadley, in internal debate over how the president came to say erroneously in his 2003 State of the Union address that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa.

"Erroneously?"

Just in case anybody here missed it the last time, here is the quotation from the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into the pre-war intelligence, released in 2004. As before, scroll to page 8 on the pdf:

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I have now seen the same pugnaciously ignorant pronouncement of falsity from AP, Reuters, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and several other newspapers; and it has become clear that this is no accident: I am now convinced that the elite media editors have literally conspired with each other to rewrite the past. They pretend that the Intel Committee report said that Bush lied and Joe Wilson was right about Iraq seeking uranium in Africa -- when in fact, it was the other way 'round.

The media rely upon the fact that the vast, vast majority of their readers no not remember that the Senate Intelligence Committee conducted a lengthy, extensive, detailed, and bipartisan examination of pre-war intelligence; and that the readers would not have access to the report even if they should vaguely recall it. The drive-by writers and editors know they won't be called on their deliberate disinformation campaign... so they have no check of conscience to stop them.

This is utterly despicable. They will do more damage to the First Amendment by their thuggish, irresponsible lying than a hundred McCain-Feingold bills and a thousand Patriot Acts could ever do. ...