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2005/8/30

Know thine enemy Pt. 5

@ 10:00 AM (50 months, 29 days ago)
My Kiwi friend has a good post on our enemy - Al Queda. 

2005/8/29

Taliban Leader Said Killed in Afghanistan

@ 06:07 AM (51 months, 1 day ago)

By DANIEL COONEY, Associated Press Writer

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2005/8/25

An Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan

@ 04:39 PM (51 months, 4 days ago)
By Brantley Smith
Ms. Sheehan,

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2005/8/23

The Mother of All Connections

@ 02:12 PM (51 months, 6 days ago)
"In August 1998, the detainee traveled to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi Intelligence for the purpose of blowing up the Pakistan, United States and British embassies with chemical mortars."  

U.S. government "Summary of Evidence" for an Iraqi member of al Qaeda detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

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2005/8/22

Jihad and the social (dis)order

@ 04:25 PM (51 months, 7 days ago)

I have been reading a book about Islam. It's not like some of it is new. It's just a re-realization that Islamo-fascists will lie, cheat, murder and steal if it will further Islam. That includes enslaving you and I in a religion that degrades women, forces people to convert to Islam and kills those who don't. I am frustrated that some of my fellow Americans are focusing their energies on their political opposition rather than the real enemy. The fact is that our enemy seeks to not only destroy us but to take us over. They will not stop until we all are under their thumb, a stark contrast to not only my Christian faith but our American culture (Christian or not). I am coming to the understanding that this is a religious war. Whether you are a Christian, Jew, Atheist it doesn't matter. We must be willing to stand up to them just as we did the Nazi's. We must reclaim our cultural and spiritual heritage. Unlike Cindy Sheehan I think America is worth fighting for.

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2005/8/20

Jewish vs. Palestinian History

@ 06:07 AM (51 months, 10 days ago)
Gravel has a good post on the current events in Israel. 

2005/8/17

War is for Winning

@ 04:36 PM (51 months, 12 days ago)
Visit my Kiwi friend at War is for Winning

We understand Cindy Sheehan

@ 03:07 PM (51 months, 12 days ago)

We can certainly relate to Cindy Sheehan, to her grief and her anger and sadness. I have friends who are in Iraq on their third tour. They are putting their lives on the line every day. Her son served honorably and gave sacrificially. I have seen a lot of posts and the news is full here in the states about this and what she is doing. Her own family however has (see Drudge Report) asked her to stop pushing her political agenda and let them grieve in peace. Here is a site that will also interest you about this subject and another that describes some of the tactics those groups who are supporting her have stooped to...including supporting terrorists and raiding recruiting offices.

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2005/8/16

You better not read this

@ 02:45 PM (51 months, 13 days ago)

Thought a little levity was in order.

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2005/8/15

Unemployment at a 40 year low!

@ 02:03 PM (51 months, 14 days ago)

Labor Report: Payrolls grow solidly
Abridged: The Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. employers added a healthy 207,000 net new jobs in July, the government said Friday in a report cited as evidence that the economy's momentum from the spring was carrying into the second half of the year. The job gains were enough to keep the unemployment rate at a 40-year low of 5%. In addition, the Labor Department lifted its estimates of job growth for the previous two months by a combined 42,000.

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Ground Zero

@ 09:43 AM (51 months, 14 days ago)

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'It's Freedom, Ma'am'

@ 08:28 AM (51 months, 15 days ago)

Blogger Mohammad Fadhil of IraqtheModel.com eloquently answers Cindy Sheehan (quoting verbatim):

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Other ways to grieve

@ 06:17 AM (51 months, 15 days ago)

from Chrenkoff

Maureen Dowd: "The moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute."

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Why we Fight PT 2

@ 06:09 AM (51 months, 15 days ago)

Got this from Firepower Forward..who is serving in Afghanistan

 “Strange thing.  You would die for it without further question, but you had a hard time talking about it.  He shook his head.  I’ll wave no more flags for home.  No tears for Mother.  Nobody ever died for apple pie.”  -Michael ShaaraThe Killer Angels”

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2005/8/12

Scratching the Surface

@ 09:54 AM (51 months, 17 days ago)
Scratching the Surface

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2005/8/11

Why They Hate Us

@ 03:24 PM (51 months, 18 days ago)

The Scotsman has an explanation for the murder in Iraq of journalist Steven Vincent. See if you can finish this sentence:

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2005/8/10

Weasels in the Chicken Coop

@ 12:04 PM (51 months, 19 days ago)

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Quran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth"

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2005/8/9

Harry Belafonte Calls Black Republicans 'Tyrants'

@ 12:38 PM (51 months, 20 days ago)

By Marc Morano
August 08, 2005

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2005/8/8

Sgt. Salie continued

@ 01:47 PM (51 months, 21 days ago)
This is a follow up to a post about David Salie here. (from MSNBC)
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In times of war, military families make extraordinary sacrifices. And no one knows that better than the Salie family. Its men have served in every conflict since World War II, living to tell the tale each time.
Recently the family sent two brave brothers off to Iraq, praying the good luck would hold. But fate wouldn't be so kind this time, and the Salie family was about to discover what one of their own would give for his country, and the unexpected gift he would give to them.
Two brothers, both soldiers, joking in front of their relatives, the day before a deployment for dangerous duty in Iraq. They don't know it yet but this is the beginning of the most powerful chapter in their family’s long history of patriotism and courage.
David Salie, 34, joined the Army right out of high school and made a career as a non-commissioned officer serving in Panama, Haiti and the first Gulf war. 
Younger brother Brian, 30, went to West Point and served in the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Military service has been a family tradition for three generations.
"I'm very, very, very proud of them two boys, I’ll tell ya," says grandfather Leonard.
Leonard Sallie survived bloody battles in both World War II and the Korean War. He says even as young boys his grandsons seemed destined to become soldiers.
"They'd pitch their pup tent out there in the woods and stay there all night, playing Army and shoot at each other with bee-bee guns,” he says.
The boys’ father, Jim, did two tours in Vietnam and retired as a Lt. Colonel after the first Gulf war. He too knew early that at the very least his very least his first born son David would wear a uniform. 

Rob Stafford: At what age did you know that David was going to be a soldier? 

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Iran Defies West, Resumes Nuclear Work

@ 01:19 PM (51 months, 21 days ago)
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer

Iran stepped up its confrontation with the West over its nuclear program, restarting work at a uranium conversion facility Monday in a move the United States and Europe have warned will prompt them to seek U.N. sanctions.

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We are all minutemen now

@ 01:12 PM (51 months, 21 days ago)

It's amazing, living in a border state. We see these illegal immigrants all the time. My neighbor is a law enforcement officer and they can't do a thing. They have no jurisdiction. This is one subject I strongly disagree with Bush on. Not only are the illegal immigrants breaking the law by being here in the first place, but it's a NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT STUPID!

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2005/8/5

Home is where your Heart and your Jihad is

@ 09:51 PM (51 months, 24 days ago)

It seems the Pentagon has heard the cries of Amnesty International and is sending some 200 prisoners from Gitmo back to their respective countries without realeasing them. FroggyRuminations has some excellent comment regarding this. He references this article from the New York Times.

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A Terror Reversal

@ 09:45 PM (51 months, 24 days ago)

"Prime Minister Ariel Sharon issued a statement calling the attack 'a criminal act of a bloodthirsty terrorist targeting innocent Israeli civilians,' " the Jerusalem Post reports about a violent incident in the Israeli town of Shfaram yesterday. What makes this unusual is that the perpetrator was Jewish and his victims Arab. Agence France-Presse has the story:

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2005/8/4

Bin Laden, the Left and Jihad

@ 03:33 PM (51 months, 25 days ago)
Bin Laden, the Left, and Jihad (David Lange as posted on Chrenkoff)

Bin Laden's video monologue that aired shortly before the 2004 U.S. election sounded as though it had been vetted with the Democratic National Committee. Complete with references lifted directly from Fahrenheit 9/11, many on the left waved it as proof that the U.S. intervention in Iraq was the reason for al-Qaida's violence and if John
Kerry became President our differences could be settled peacefully. While the video demonstrated the desperateness of Mr. Laden's situation, the left's wishful thinking demonstrated how high the stakes are for liberals as well. Both are fighting to salvage their world-view. Mr. Laden understands that if the West believes the liberal mantra, it provides him a valuable strategic advantage so he gladly reinforces what liberals want to hear. Meanwhile, liberals and their sycophants in the media seemed determined to ignore all the evidence concerning jihadists' real motives because it threatens their doctrine of rational multicultural relativism. (They are both self serving aren't they? -eb) Mr. Laden's pre-election video merged these complimentary agendas.

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2005/8/3

Steven Vincent (words matter)

@ 11:32 AM (51 months, 26 days ago)

By JAMES TARANTO

A Journalist Is Murdered
Steven Vincent, "an art critic inspired to write about war after watching from the roof of his New York apartment as the World Trade Center towers fell," was found murdered in Basra, Iraq, yesterday, Reuters reports from New York. Vincent published an article in Sunday's New York Times criticizing British troops in Basra for being insufficiently aggressive in promoting democratic values:

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A victory for multiculti over common sense

@ 02:40 AM (51 months, 27 days ago)

This article says in 300 words what many feel, but for some reason, can’t quite convey to our “leaders”. What part of "you are wrong" doesn't the Left get?

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2005/8/2

Excuse me..could I interrupt your prayer time and diffuse this bomb

@ 12:11 PM (51 months, 27 days ago)

A tough choice (not really) from the Daily Mail

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2005/8/1

What's In a Name? It's called a War!

@ 12:14 PM (51 months, 28 days ago)

It pisses me off, to be frank that too many people do not understand the "struggle" with which we have undertaken. Call it what it is...A WAR !@#$%&*

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NOT ONE INCH!!!!

@ 12:08 PM (51 months, 28 days ago)
Whatever excuse or justification these people use, I do not believe we should give one inch to them; not in this country, not in Iraq, not in Afghanistan, not in our support in the alliances we choose, including with America, not one inch to these people!
-- Tony Blair, on fighting terrorists

A Warrior at Rest

@ 11:57 AM (51 months, 28 days ago)

"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends." (John 15:13)

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