The President's speech was dead on

It's been a tough road...we're prevailing...complete the mission. The site to support the troops mentioned by the President is here.

Shelby Foote died

(via The Corner)

Have I missed it?

I've been checking the SF Chronicle for Sean Penn's reports from Iran - but to no avail. Has anyone else noticed it?

"Everything we heard about operations there in the past, we'd have to say, was negative. What we saw firsthand was something different" - Sen. Nelson

Two Democrats recently back from Gitmo see no signs of abuse.

China confiscates Japanese textbooks headed for Japanese School in China

because Taiwan was the wrong color on the maps.

Real torture

It shouldn’t be too hard to tell which side I meant.

By “crapping on” I wasn’t referring to the people who are leading an imperfect war, which we are winning. Rather, I was talking about the people who seem incapable of uttering the word Iraq without also bringing up Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, or the litany of negatives directed at the Commander in Chief. You know, the ones who seem hellbent on losing Vietnam all over again – not because the want to see our soldiers suffer, but because they want to see the President fail. Troop levels and body armor are legitimate points of debate, but when Senator x harps on troop numbers and then wants to know when the troops will be coming home – or when Senator’s x, y, z use stories of prisoner abuse to say we’ve lost moral authority – their interests in winning the war become suspect to me. The main problem for these people is that they actually believe the previously linked cartoon is accurate.

Re: the Rumsfeld story. Although he miscalculated the longevity of the Baathist’s resistance, he was right about one thing: they are part of a dying cause. What would be the appropriate response from a Defense Secretary at that time? His response was the right one to make.

I couldn't tell by the "crapping" headline which side you meant

Because it can certainly be argued the administration is crapping all over the war effort - too few troops, too little body armor up-front, and Rumsfeld's comment about dead-enders ---- 2 years ago!!!!!! So forgive me if I find it a little hard to believe Cheney when he says the insurgency is in its last throes.

Speaking of which, I thought this was a nifty little cartoon.

Boy does my colon feel a lot cleaner now that I got that out of my system.

How is the recent Supreme Court decision not a violation of the Bill of Rights?

For:
Stevens
Kennedy
Souter
Ginsburg
Breyer

Against:
O'Connor
Scalia
Thomas
Rehnquist

Condi's Cairo Speech

good stuff!

It is hard to take someone seriously when they crap on the war effort for 2 years

and then whine when someone questions their judge-u-ment.

Allah may be experiencing an acute shortage of virgins

or is it a shortage of cute virgins?

Mark Steyn on tsunami aid, the U.N. and helping Africa

free sign-in required - sorry.

Congressional tears are rarely moving and are usually an embarrassment

and Durbin's apology is no different. I still don't think he knows what he did wrong. Anyway, Hewitt has a good post on Gitmo. And Lileks Screedblog is a welcome addition to the blogosphere. I just wish he would post more on it and made it easier to link to.

Red on red: when terrorists start whacking each other, we all win

and it appears to be a trend.

The Middle East needs castor oil

and Dr. Rice is administering it.

How times have changed

Hussein misses Reagan (via Drudge):

"He said, 'I wish things were like when Ronald Reagan was still
president,"' said one of the soldiers who guarded him....

President Bush and his father, former President George H. W. Bush, are "no
good," while former President Bill Clinton was "OK," Saddam told his
captors.

Japanese-American alliance

strong and getting stronger.

I've been detected on Jay's radar screen

and we've engaged in a tit for tat.

Good for Dean