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2007.08.05 Long War // Dhimm Perfidy Roundup
NOTE: I think I may have accidentally left some trackbacks indicating I'd linked to some thing from this post that I actually linked to from my 2007.08.06 roundup. I apologize for any confusion I caused. I have seen the horror
Al Qaeda is guilty of monstrosities in Iraq - no matter what anyone says
Michael Yon
Amid all this talk of timetables for the War in Iraq, blurred as they are by a strange lemming-like compulsion to declare the "surge" strategy a failure almost before it actually began, one deadline looms larger with each passing day: It's time for a reckoning with the truth.
The problem is that almost none of those who have cast themselves as truth-tellers have the requisite credibility for the job. The one man who does was told he had only until September to evaluate progress. ...
The Turn -- Defeatists in retreat.
William Kristol
Hot July brings cooling showers, / Apricots and gillyflowers, as Sara Coleridge's doggerel has it. But for the American antiwar movement, this July brought only a cold drizzle, wilted blossoms, and bitter fruit.
For the Iraq war's opponents, July began as a month of hope. It ended in retreat. It began with Democratic unity in proclaiming the inevitability of American defeat. It ended with respected military analysts--Democrats, no less!--reporting that the situation on the ground had improved, and that the war might be winnable. It began with a plan for a series of votes in Congress that were supposed to stampede nervous Republicans against the continued prosecution of the war. It ended with the GOP spine stiffened, no antiwar legislation passed, and the Democratic Congress adjourning in disarray, with approval ratings lower than President Bush's. It began with Democratic presidential candidates competing in their antiwar pandering. It ended with them having second thoughts ...
Army spokesman: We told TNR we couldn’t find any
evidence to corroborate Beauchamp’s burned woman story
And yet this fact went unmentioned in TNR’s story. What’s really odd is that TNR claims to have found no fewer than three witnesses to the incident; that the Army couldn’t find one actually works to TNR’s advantage in suggesting either that the troops involved are afraid to tell their commanders the truth or the Army’s not doing a thorough job of investigating. And yet — no mention. ...
South Carolina Highway Closed After
Cops Find Explosives in Car's Trunk
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. — Authorities closed a highway outside Charleston for more than five hours Saturday night after police found explosives in the trunk of a car, a newspaper reported, citing an FBI agent.
Julie Johnson, assistant special agent-in-charge for the FBI in Columbia, said there was "no immediate threat," according to The (Charleston) Post and Courier.
Law enforcement officials closed the road about 7 p.m. after the traffic stop in Goose Creek, home to the Naval Weapons Station. The station houses the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig, a military prison where enemy combatants have been held. ...
See also:
House OKs wider wiretap powers
Democrats concede to Bush administration on warrantless surveillance
WASHINGTON - The House handed President Bush a victory Saturday, voting to expand the government's abilities to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States.
The 227-183 vote, which followed the Senate's approval Friday, sends the bill to Bush for his signature. He had urged Congress to approve it, saying Saturday, "Protecting America is our most solemn obligation." ...
Related: Looking For a Leaker
Slowly but surely, Brits taking back
southern Afghanistan from the Taliban
Allahpundit
“Southern Afghanistan” meaning Helmand province, in particular, site of yesterday’s airstrike on a congregation of the Taliban’s finest to witness a public execution. Net result: 100 jihadis dead and up to five senior commanders, including possibly the new operational honcho himself, Mansour Dadullah. Dadullah is the brother of the now-deceased “Taliban Zarqawi,” Mullah Dadullah, having taken the reins after NATO liquidated him in June just in time to preside over that dopey Taliban suicide bomber “graduation ceremony” that Brian Ross did so much heavy breathing over. I wonder how many graduates were at the hanging yesterday and didn’t make it out. ...
See also: Nato airstrike kills senior Taliban leaders
Figure in Iraq Mosque Bombing Is Killed, U.S. Says
BAGHDAD, Aug. 4 — The insurgent who planned the bombing of Al Askari mosque in Samarra earlier this summer has been killed in an air raid, the American military announced Saturday.
Haythem Sabah al-Badri, who was reputed to be the leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia in Salahuddin Province, was killed in a strike northeast of Samarra, the northern city where two minarets at the Shiite mosque were demolished in the blast, on June 13. ...
Iran Arms Taliban
By Patriot
At least 4 more American soldiers were killed this week by Iranian bombs, and the bodies keep piling up. There are terrorist bases less than a mile inside Iran, but we haven't stop them because the State Department says that would be violating Iran's border. So–Iran keeps killing our soldiers. I hate to keep coming back to this, but Obama says attacking Iran, even covertly, won't work. But, he would order military action against terrorists in Pakistan's tribal region bordering Afghanistan if intelligence warranted it. Well, Mr. Obama, the intelligence warrants it in Iran. What are you going to do about that? ...
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