Watch the video here: FOX – The O'Reilly Factor (10/17/06): Rep. Charlie Rangel O'REILLY: Wait, wait, wait. How do you think you're going to get Khalid Sheik Mohammed to tell you about his al Qaeda associates without coerced interrogation? How would you get him to tell you? RANGEL: You said...
Today, President Bush signed legislation that authorizes tough interrogation of terror suspects, and paves the way for military tribunals. Bush said at the ceremony, "With the bill I'm about to sign, the men our intelligence officials believe orchestrated the murder of nearly 3,000 innocent people will face justice." Defeatist Democrats...
Read Full Story. . .
The War on Terrorism, in a Nutshell
By Mark Noonan at
09:07 AM
If I could draw the critics a picture, I would - but my drawing skills are as bad as my singing skills...which explains why I sing in a quiet voice in Church. But, still, the War on Terrorism really is a simple, straightfoward proposition: we are attempting to dry up...
Read Full Story. . .
October 16, 2006
Cheney Gets It
By Matt Margolis at
08:48 PM
Earlier today, Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at a rally for the 101st Airborne Division. Here's an important part of the speech everyone ought to read:The terrorists know they cannot beat us in a stand-up fight. They never have. The only way they can win is if we lose our...
Read Full Story. . .
Terror Conviction Prompts Questions on Bush Tactics?
By Matt Margolis at
04:37 PM
Now this is interesting, Reuters reports that the case of a New York attorney Lynne Stewart, who was convicted of aiding terrorism "has prompted debate among U.S. lawyers about whether the Bush administration wants to scare them away from representing terrorist defendants."Lynne Stewart was convicted in February 2005 of helping...
Read Full Story. . .
October 12, 2006
I'm a bit curious here - just how does a person change in to a "source"? I've been thinking about that, especially as more and more "journalistic" hit pieces on President Bush, the GOP and the war hinge upon the credibility of un-named "sources". I bring this up because Victor...
Read Full Story. . .
October 11, 2006
The more things change....
By Leo Pusateri at
08:53 PM
Check out a Civil War era anti-war poster at The Ice Palace. The point of it is, what would have happened if the defeatists would have ruled the day back then?...
Read Full Story. . .
October 10, 2006
More bad news for democrats...
By Leo Pusateri at
06:33 PM
Yep, bringing down terrorist financial operations, especially during an election season, just has to hit 'em in the gut. From CENTCOM:BAGHDAD — Local police, supported by special Iraqi Army forces, conducted a raid Oct. 9 in Tikrit against a local hawala allegedly used by individuals and businesses to provide financial...
Read Full Story. . .
October 03, 2006
Fatwa to Kill the Pope Issued
By Mark Noonan at
09:11 AM
B. Raman of the South Asia Analysis Group has come across a very disturbing story: Acting on behalf of the International Islamic Front (IIF) for Jihad Against the Crusaders and the Jewish People, which is headed by Osama bin Laden, the Markaz-ud-Dawa (MUD) of Pakistan, which is the political wing...
Read Full Story. . .
Woodward's Claims vs. The Truth
By Matt Margolis at
07:12 AM
Woodward's book claims that a July 10, 2001 meeting between Condi Rice and George Tenet on the al Qaeda threat and an imminent attack resulted in Tenet leaving frustrated, and feeling "brushed off." Condi Rice responded saying she was not alerted about a impending attack. The latest story from the...
Read Full Story. . .
I wonder if the MSM is keepkng track of this, too...
By Leo Pusateri at
12:34 AM
If you peruse the sidebar on The Ice Palace, as well as on many other blogs, you'll find a banner link that has been keeping tally of every deadly terrorist attack perpetrated by those of a Muslim persuasion since 9/11/2001. As of the time of this writing, there have been...
Read Full Story. . .
October 02, 2006
Allegations and the Media
By Matt Margolis at
11:59 AM
It's become commonplace for anti-Bush "bombshell" books/movies/reports to come out in advance of an election. Bob Woodward's latest book, State of Denial, appears to be this year's hot item in that category. As allegations in the book have surfaced in the media, the White House has quickly refuted them. Unfortunately,...
Read Full Story. . .
The End of "Our" War
By Mark Noonan at
05:25 AM
Michael Barone has an interesting article discussing the shifting Democratic rhetoric as it regards the US government, the US military and overall US policy. He notes that when a Democrat wasn't it office, it was "the military", "the Administration" and "their war" - once there was a Democrat in office,...
Read Full Story. . .
September 29, 2006
The Al Qaeda Wing Of The Democratic Party
By Matt Margolis at
08:32 PM
It's pretty bad when you can't tell the difference between the rhetoric of a Democrat and the rhetoric of an al Qaeda terrorist. In a video statement, al Qaeda terrorist Ayman al-Zawahri said to Bush, "Can't you be honest at least once in your life, and admit that you are...
Read Full Story. . .
Senate Passes Detainee Interrogation Bill
By Mark Noonan at
04:33 AM
It seems that the House and Senate, by majority vote, do realise that we are at war: WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday endorsed President Bush's plans to prosecute and interrogate terror suspects, all but sealing congressional approval for legislation that Republicans intend to use on the campaign trail to...
Read Full Story. . .
Of terrorists and squirrels...
By Leo Pusateri at
12:21 AM
The moonbat mentality of how to deal with evil, when applied in any situation, yields predictable results. Take this story, for instance, about squirrels that have been terrorizing park patrons in Mountain View, California......
Read Full Story. . .
September 28, 2006
Al Qaeda Suffers Huge Losses In Iraq
By Matt Margolis at
01:11 PM
Al Qaeda confirms that 4,000 of their insurgents have been killed in Iraq. Just think, if we had cut-and-run like the Democrats wanted, they'd be alive and trying to kill us here at home....
Read Full Story. . .
Hillary Clinton Really Is An Idiot
By Matt Margolis at
10:23 AM
When Hillary went into a hissy fit over Condoleeza Rice's criticisms of Bill Clinton's terror record, she made a rather ridiculous claim. She said, "I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled 'Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United...
Read Full Story. . .
Bill Clinton Really Is An Idiot
By Matt Margolis at
06:25 AM
I laugh whenever I hear liberal bloggers describe Bill Clinton's mental breakdown with Chris Wallace. They all seem to refer to it as Bill Clinton's "smackdown" of Wallace. A funny way to look at it, since Clinton's rant was full of lies and he simply came off as defensive, angry...
Read Full Story. . .
September 27, 2006
A death wish borne of ignorance
By Leo Pusateri at
11:36 PM
As the Detainee Bill works its way through the House and Senate, the democrats (and some RINOs) continue to be stuck on stupid, with regard to what they think is the intent and the spirit of the Geneva Convention when applied to un-uniformed, illegal enemy combatants. According to Article 4...
Read Full Story. . .
The Media's Unintelligent Estimation of National Intelligence
By Matt Margolis at
01:21 PM
The Boston Herald's Jules Crittenden takes the media to task over their reporting of the leaked National Intelligence estimate on Iraq, and goes through all declassified assessments, point by point and concludes the following.The document makes no judgment about whether we are winning or losing War on Terrorism, and does...
Read Full Story. . .
Boehner: NIE Report Confirms Success in Iraq Key to Confronting Terrorist Threat
By Matt Margolis at
07:57 AM
Yesterday, U.S. House Majority Leader John Boehner praised President Bush's decision to declassify findings of the recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which had been grossly distorted by the Democrats. "In declassifying the NIE, the President today provided a valuable insight into the serious nature of the terrorist threat we as...
Read Full Story. . .
September 26, 2006
When Intelligence Becomes Political
By Matt Margolis at
01:27 PM
It's a sad situation when our nation's intelligence becomes a political weapon. We no longer live in the days where a common enemy breaks down party lines and ushers in a resolved sense of unity where the goal is to win at all costs. Democrats have systematically built that wall...
Read Full Story. . .
September 25, 2006
Assessing Iraq
By Matt Margolis at
10:25 AM
Cut-And-Run Democrats predictably jumped all over news reports of the leaked intelligence assessment on Iraq that claims the Iraq war "has increased the terrorist threat." Perhaps it's premature for Democrats to open their bottles of champagne and toast to the terrorists. Without actually seeing this NIE report in full, all...
Read Full Story. . .
September 22, 2006
Iran, Venezuela, War and Oil
By Mark Noonan at
01:09 PM
As you can see over at NYMEX, the price of a barrel of oil has dropped from about $77 to just over $60 over the past month or so. That is a 22% drop - rather large. Why is this? Well, part of it would be that the world is...
Read Full Story. . .
September 21, 2006
Iraq & Al Qaeda... Connecting The Dots II
By Matt Margolis at
10:24 AM
While the most recent Senate Intelligence report on Iraq casts doubt on the connections between Iraq and Al Qaeda, the deputy prime minister of Iraq says that the alliance between Saddam's forces and al Qaeda tried to kill him.A deputy prime minister of Iraq yesterday offered a sharp contradiction of...
Read Full Story. . .
Iraq & Al Qaeda... Connecting The Dots
By Matt Margolis at
07:50 AM
Fix 4 RSO has been reading through the Foreign Military Studies Office, Joint Reserve Intelligence Center - Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents, and discovered a document detailing a meeting "between Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban Group, Afghanistan, and the Iraqis."...
Read Full Story. . .
September 18, 2006
Sister Leonella
By Mark Noonan at
05:35 PM
That was her name, you know? The name of the 65 year old Catholic nun who had spent decades in Somalia ministering to the sick and providing education to the young. They don't give their names, but her bodyguard and another hospital worker were also killed - even a nun...
Read Full Story. . .
September 16, 2006
Saddam and al-Qaeda
By Mark Noonan at
01:59 AM
The left and the MSM continually claim that President Bush and Administration deliberately falsely tied Saddam and al-Qaeda together in order to gin up support for the liberation of Iraq. Of course, no such thing ever happened, but the facts haven't stopped the left and the MSM - it is...
Read Full Story. . .
September 15, 2006
Common Article III of the Geneva Convention
By Mark Noonan at
08:37 PM
Its been in the news - what does it say? This: ARTICLE 3 In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following...
Read Full Story. . .
We Must Defeat Political Correctness To Win The War On Terror
By Matt Margolis at
02:16 PM
While the media focuses on the Senate Republicans who have "defied President Bush" over the issue of detention of terrorist suspects, there are still plenty of Republicans who believe we shouldn't become slaves to political correctness in the war on terror, such as Senator John Cornyn, who said, “This is...
Read Full Story. . .
Regarding laughing matters...
By Leo Pusateri at
02:01 PM
Any of you who are Monty Python fans will remember the sketch called, "The World's funniest joke" Well... I think it's been outdone. As a public service to our B4B readership, I will attempt to risk life and limb by reading this joke, and , and I will interject my...
Read Full Story. . .
Murtha's "strategic vision"?
By Leo Pusateri at
10:08 AM
When it comes to assessing the readiness of our military, it appears that Jack P. Murtha, head Al Qaeda cheerleader, knows not of what he speaks (emphases mine): WASHINGTON — Army officials angrily defended the capability and competence of the service Thursday in response to criticism from a pair of...
Read Full Story. . .
September 14, 2006
Being a Soldier
By Mark Noonan at
03:18 PM
Got in to a squabble over the troops on an earlier thread - and I do think that the critics of the war just don't understand soldiering, or being in the military at all. Rich Lowry over at NRO's The Corner got an email from a soldier which pretty much...
Read Full Story. . .
Faith and Violence
By Mark Noonan at
11:07 AM
Much has been said over the past five years of the place of religion in our War on Terrorism. Clearly, our enemies are using a religion as the ideological underpinning of their actions. People can dispute endlessly whether this is a perversion of Islam, or just its logical conclusion -...
Read Full Story. . .
The Trying of Terrorists
By Matt Margolis at
07:57 AM
Apparently some Republicans don't see eye-to-eye with Bush on this issue. Defying President George W. Bush, a group of Senate Republicans on Wednesday said they would press ahead with legislation to try foreign terrorism suspects that the White House said would stifle CIA intelligence-gathering. Top Republicans on the Senate Armed...
Read Full Story. . .
In yet another blow to terrorists
By Leo Pusateri at
12:11 AM
Islamofascists aren't the only ones we need to worry about. It's about time some action was taken against a different kind of "home-grown" terrorist (all emphases mine): WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- A federal court in Trenton, N.J., is sentencing a group of animal rights activists for their part in...
Read Full Story. . .
September 12, 2006
DOD's Ten Facts About Guantanamo
By Matt Margolis at
04:16 PM
The follow are ten facts about Guantanamo from the Deptartment of Defense:1. The detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility include bin Laden’s bodyguards, bomb makers, terrorist trainers and facilitators, and other suspected terrorists. 2. More is spent on meals for detainees than on the U.S. troops stationed there. Detainees...
Read Full Story. . .
Russ Feingold--living proof why it's not safe to vote democrat
By Leo Pusateri at
02:48 PM
Russ Feingold, like so many other dhimmicrats, refuses to acknowledge the face of our enemy:WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold called on President Bush to refrain from using the phrase "Islamic fascists," saying it was offensive to Muslims and has nothing to do with global terrorists fighting the United States....
Read Full Story. . .
The Enemy is Listening
By Mark Noonan at
09:30 AM
They do pay attention to what is said in the United States - indeed, I'll bet they pay more attention to our domestic politics than most Americans do...as Cliff May over at NRO's The Corner points out: Michael Moore's Mother She must be so proud! I was just on ITN...
Read Full Story. . .
September 09, 2006
Clinton's Path To 9/11: Losing Bin Laden
By Matt Margolis at
02:01 PM
Videos Democrats don't want you see:Clinton admitting he refused to take bin Laden when offered....
Read Full Story. . .
September 08, 2006
Bush Planned To Strike Bin Laden Before 9/11
By Matt Margolis at
02:55 PM
I've been reading a lot of comments lately from liberals accusing President Bush of not doing anything about terrorism before 9/11. Well, unfortunately for them, they are wrong. When I was blogging at the Republican National Convention back in 2004, I interviewed Richard Miniter, author of "Losing Bin Laden: How...
Read Full Story. . .
September 07, 2006
How Democrats Play an Intregral Role In Al Qaeda's Strategy (Bumped)
By Matt Margolis at
09:22 AM
Yesterday, President Bush spoke about the war on terror. During his remarks he said,[...]along with this campaign of terror, the enemy has a propaganda strategy. Osama bin Laden laid out this strategy in a letter to the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, that coalition forces uncovered in Afghanistan in 2002. In...
Read Full Story. . .
At first glance, President Bush's transfer of terrorists from CIA to military custody seemed to be a cave-in to leftwing pressure on the subject - but I don't think that is what happened here. I can't recall exactly, but it couldn't have been more than 10 days after 9/11 before...
Read Full Story. . .
September 06, 2006
Bush Gives In
By Matt Margolis at
01:26 PM
I'm very disappointed.ABC News has learned that President Bush will announce that high-value detainees now being held at secret CIA prisons will be transferred to the Department of Defense and granted protections under the 1949 Geneva Conventions. It will be the first time the Administration publicly acknowledges the existence of...
Read Full Story. . .
National Strategy For Combating Terrorism
By Matt Margolis at
05:35 AM
Yesterday, President Bush released an updated National Strategy For Combating Terrorism (NSCT), which outlines our government's strategy to protecting and defending Americans at home and abroad. Because terrorists adjust and adapt, the NSCT is regularly refined in order to help defeat the what is an evolving threat. You can download...
Read Full Story. . .
The Terrorists' best friends...
By Leo Pusateri at
03:23 AM
...are undoubtely to be found in the democrat party... ...Insisting that current US policy "is neither working, nor making us more secure," Democratic leaders from both houses of Congress today wrote US President George W. Bush to urge the beginning of a withdrawal from Iraq, RAW STORY has learned. House...
Read Full Story. . .
The Propaganda War
By Mark Noonan at
01:46 AM
We've been doing rather poorly in this aspect of the War on Terrorism. Part of the problem is that we can't rely on American news outlets to show a bit of patriotism in their reporting. They did it in WWII, but ever since then the American media has strangely seen...
Read Full Story. . .
September 03, 2006
A Message for al-Qaeda
By Mark Noonan at
12:43 PM
I understand that al-Qaeda has a new video out urging Americans to covert to Islam. The subtext of this message would be, "or else". I have to say that I reject the offer - I'm not about to abandon faith in my Saviour...certainly not for the false and empty promises...
Read Full Story. . .
September 01, 2006
Rummy Responds To Pelosi and Reid
By Matt Margolis at
04:56 PM
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has repsonded to comments made by Democrats to a recent he made to the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Posted below is the full text of the letter. The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Democratic Leader of the House Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Representative...
Read Full Story. . .
67 Years Ago Today
By Mark Noonan at
08:05 AM
The world learned the price of appeasement. Victory, not negotiations, end war. We can't buy or talk our way out of this war - the enemy wants to kill or enslave us all, and only the destruction of the enemy will bring us peace. There are more and less violent...
Read Full Story. . .
President Bush's Speech to the American Legion
By Mark Noonan at
04:15 AM
It is being talked up as one of President Bush's stronger speeches, and while I didn't see it live, the transcript does show President Bush to be resolute for victory, and clearly understanding both the stakes we are fighting for, and the necessity of ensuring the American people understand why...
Read Full Story. . .
August 29, 2006
Bush's "Strategic Vision" In The Middle East "Is The Best One" For America
By Matt Margolis at
08:02 AM
Columnist Barry Casselman writes in The Washington Times about President Bush's Middle East strategy. [...] But the president and his advisors had a much larger strategic purpose. They saw the necessity, given the ominous aggression of the terrorists, to change the nature of the Middle Eastern political landscape which had...
Read Full Story. . .
August 25, 2006
Killing Infidels, 101
By Mark Noonan at
12:03 PM
This via the good people at MEMRI: "Before Carrying Out the Operation, Pray for Guidance" "Below I will explain the jihadist way of action and the security measures to be employed by the jihad fighter [when he wants to kill a Westerner]: "First of all, before carrying out the operation,...
Read Full Story. . .
August 23, 2006
With Democrats Bashing The War All The Time...
By Matt Margolis at
05:28 AM
...this is not too surprising:The Marine Corps will soon begin ordering thousands of its troops back to active duty because of a shortage of volunteers for Iraq and Afghanistan — the first involuntary recall since the early days of the war.But then again, this is the kind of thing Democrats...
Read Full Story. . .
August 22, 2006
Experts Fault Reasoning In Surveillance Decision
By Matt Margolis at
02:28 PM
While Democrats may be rejoicing over last weeks decision by Carter-nominee Judge Anna Diggs Taylor that surveilling terrorists is unconstitutional, experts have been finding fault in her decision.Even legal experts who agreed with a federal judge’s conclusion on Thursday that a National Security Agency surveillance program is unlawful were distancing...
Read Full Story. . .
August 18, 2006
Common Sense in Hollywood?
By Mark Noonan at
04:27 AM
Radio Blogger has a picture of a newspaper ad which appeared in the Los Angeles Times - the text of which goes thusly: We the undersigned are pained and devastated by the civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and...
Read Full Story. . .
August 17, 2006
Did Torture Break the Airline Case?
By Mark Noonan at
03:49 PM
Possibly, says the Guardian: Reports from Pakistan suggest that much of the intelligence that led to the raids came from that country and that some of it may have been obtained in ways entirely unacceptable here. In particular Rashid Rauf, a British citizen said to be a prime source of...
Read Full Story. . .
Federal Judge Rules In Favor of Terrorists
By Matt Margolis at
12:40 PM
The war on terror may be fought on many fronts... but it's being lost here in the courts...A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government's warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to...
Read Full Story. . .
August 16, 2006
The CIA's Bin Laden Unit
By Matt Margolis at
04:12 PM
Much is being made about the "disbandment" of the Bin Laden Unit at the CIA, which was established in 1996 and is no longer as a result of restructuring in the CIA. The left is using the news as an opportunity to claim Bush doesn't care about catching bin Laden,...
Read Full Story. . .
August 14, 2006
The Threat Of Terrorism
By Matt Margolis at
09:38 AM
On NBC's "Meet The Press," Howard Dean said, "The Republicans hope, once again, to win an election based on fear." This is his way of complaining about national security and terrorism being made key issues in the election. Dean and the Democrats don't want to talk about these issues, because...
Read Full Story. . .
Cheney Politicizing Terrorism?
By Matt Margolis at
07:22 AM
Does anyone else find it humorous that after years of Democrats turning fighting terror into a political issue, that they have the gall to accuse Dick Cheney of politicizing terrorism? Which party supported military action against Saddam Hussein until President Bush did? The Democrats. Which party supported the Patriot Act...
Read Full Story. . .
August 12, 2006
The View From the Chow Hall
By Mark Noonan at
02:08 AM
Wade Zirkle and Josh Clark, who have served a total of three tours in Iraq, give the soldiers-eye view of our politics over at Vets For Freedom (originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal): Joseph Lieberman's primary loss might be a satisfying victory for the partisan extremes, but it is...
Read Full Story. . .
August 11, 2006
Imagine That...
By Matt Margolis at
10:57 AM
...that anti-terrorist surveillance operations (something liberals oppose) resulted in that terror plot being thwarted yesterday...
Read Full Story. . .
CAIR Upset Over Bush Statement
By Mark Noonan at
05:46 AM
Just cry me a river, why don't you? WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Muslim groups criticized President George W. Bush on Thursday for calling a foiled plot to blow up airplanes part of a "war with Islamic fascists," saying the term could inflame anti-Muslim tensions. U.S. officials have said the plot,...
Read Full Story. . .
CAIR Upset Over Bush Statement
By Mark Noonan at
05:46 AM
Just cry me a river, why don't you? WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Muslim groups criticized President George W. Bush on Thursday for calling a foiled plot to blow up airplanes part of a "war with Islamic fascists," saying the term could inflame anti-Muslim tensions. U.S. officials have said the plot,...
Read Full Story. . .
August 10, 2006
Bush Speaks On Foiled Terror Plot
By Matt Margolis at
02:44 PM
President Bush made the following statement upon arriving in Wisconsin earlier today"The recent arrests that our fellow citizens are now learning about are a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt...
Read Full Story. . .
You Heard About That War on Terrorism Thing?
By Mark Noonan at
02:53 AM
Well, its real: Police say they have disrupted a major plot to blow as many as 20 planes over UK and US cities with explosive devices smuggled aboard as hand luggage. Police are have arrested 20 people in London - the culmination of a covert counter-terrorist operation lasting several months....
Read Full Story. . .
August 09, 2006
What We're Fighting For
By Mark Noonan at
06:57 AM
Peter Wehner over at Opinion Journal provides us an timely reminder: Elections are not the problem; rather, they reveal what problems exist and remind us what tyranny in the Middle East has wrought. Liberty is the antidote to the virus, not the virus itself. But freedom requires more time to...
Read Full Story. . .
August 08, 2006
Rumsfeld is Right
By Mark Noonan at
05:39 AM
While our liberal bedwetters wrung their hands over the resolute and realistic statements of General Abizaid last week, they missed some rather important things regarding the campaign in Iraq, as Cal Thomas notes: Rumsfeld elaborated on the difference between the two sides: "One side does all it can to avoid...
Read Full Story. . .
August 07, 2006
Do You Know What War Is?
By Mark Noonan at
12:25 AM
It is an appropriate question - my father is nearly 80, and he's one of the youngest of WWII vets, having joined the Marines at 17 years old in 1944. So, there's not too many WWII vets around, and for those that are, their grand-children and great-grandchildren are likely not...
Read Full Story. . .
August 03, 2006
Why the Enemy Fights
By Mark Noonan at
05:04 PM
Victor Davis Hanson gets down to the real reason for this war: When there is high unemployment, corruption, zero economic growth, endemic illiteracy and no freedom, mullahs, dictators and jihadists of the Middle East always seem to fault the ancient colonial power -- Britain, France or Italy (though rarely Islamic...
Read Full Story. . .
August 02, 2006
Religion of Peace...
By Mark Noonan at
07:05 AM
...blows a bunch of Thai's all to heck and gone...'cause Israel is occupying Palestine, no doubt. Our Jonathan has the details over at GOP Bloggers....
Read Full Story. . .
July 31, 2006
The Gloomy View of the Situation
By Mark Noonan at
01:37 PM
This is from Mona Charen writing at NRO's The Corner - I'm putting it up because I'll bet that a lot of you out there are feeling this way about it: ..I'm not exactly Mary Sunshine this morning either. I wonder about this: not just the question as to whether...
Read Full Story. . .
July 30, 2006
Stability or Liberty?
By Mark Noonan at
10:45 AM
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition. - Edmund Burke, Speech on Concliation with America, March 22, 1775 A rather appropriate quote, especially in light of the fact that so many people today are superstitiously anti-religious and...
Read Full Story. . .
July 29, 2006
President Bush Lays Down Some Markers
By Mark Noonan at
09:01 AM
Some rather interesting statements from yesterdays press conference: Q...Mr. President, when Secretary Rice goes back to the region, will she have any new instructions, such as meeting with Syrians? PRESIDENT BUSH: Her instructions are to work with Israel and Lebanon to get a -- to come up with an acceptable...
Read Full Story. . .
If the Truth Shall Set You Free, Part II
By Mark Noonan at
12:45 AM
Victor Davis Hanson provides us a handy vocabulary of the Israeli/Hizbollah battle: A “ceasefire” would occur should Hezbollah give back kidnapped Israelis and stop launching missiles; it would never follow a unilateral cessation of Israeli bombing. In fact, we will hear international calls for one only when Hezbollah’s rockets are...
Read Full Story. . .
July 21, 2006
The Victims of Peace
By Mark Noonan at
03:24 PM
Thomas Sowell writes on a subject that I've been harping on lately - the baleful affect of "peace" movements: There was a time when it would have been suicidal to threaten, much less attack, a nation with much stronger military power because one of the dangers to the attacker would...
Read Full Story. . .
July 20, 2006
The Grim Reality
By Mark Noonan at
04:53 AM
I'm not the only one starting to think that full scale war may become a necessity - Victor Davis Hanson thinks so, too: Yet for all their threats, what the Islamists -- from Hezbollah in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley to the Iranian government in Tehran to the jihadists in Iraq's Sunni...
Read Full Story. . .
July 19, 2006
A Word on "Proportionality"
By Mark Noonan at
05:46 AM
Some people seem to be under the misapprehension that a proper "proportionality" in war means that the stronger side holds back...that is a nonsensical opinion, as Rush Limbaugh pointed out: In World War II, the United States suffered around 92,000 battle deaths in the Pacific theater: 92,000 in the Pacific...
Read Full Story. . .
July 16, 2006
Will the US Strike Syria?
By Mark Noonan at
02:32 AM
Michael Ledeen, he the super-hawk on taking Iran and Syria down as a means of finishing the War on Terrorism, worries, some hours ago, over at NRO's The Corner that the United States is not matching action to rhetoric. As Ledeen has it, this is our golden opportunity to destroy...
Read Full Story. . .
July 13, 2006
What To Do Now?
By Mark Noonan at
08:34 PM
The acute crisis involving Israel forces us to review the situation in the War on Terrorism - we have to determine what our next step is. We can be certain that the ratcheting up of the tension which led to the current battle was deliberately fueled by - if not...
Read Full Story. . .
What To Do Now?
By Mark Noonan at
08:34 PM
The acute crisis involving Israel forces us to review the situation in the War on Terrorism - we have to determine what our next step is. We can be certain that the ratcheting up of the tension which led to the current battle was deliberately fueled by - if not...
Read Full Story. . .
July 12, 2006
Another Unannounced Trip To Iraq For Rummy
By Matt Margolis at
08:48 PM
The Washington Post tells the story...In a whirlwind trip through Iraq, Rumsfeld arrived early Wednesday and rallied about 500 troops at Camp Anaconda near Balad before heading by helicopter to the capital to meet with Casey and other top U.S. commanders. He also met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and...
Read Full Story. . .
Congress Told Disclosure of Terror Finance Program Hurt Efforts To Track Terrorists
By Matt Margolis at
02:19 PM
Imagine that... Disclosure of a secret program giving the U.S. government access to a massive international data base of financial information was "very damaging" to efforts to catch terrorists, Congress was told Tuesday. "This disclosure compromised one of our most valuable programs and will only make our efforts to track...
Read Full Story. . .
July 11, 2006
DoD Memo Doesn't Reflect A Change in Policy
By Matt Margolis at
09:34 PM
Earlier today I wrote about the story of the DoD memo, which the media implied represented a change in policy with respect to the treatment of detainees. The memo actually restates the current policy that all detainees are to be treated in a manner consistent with Geneva Convention Common Article...
Read Full Story. . .
A Victory For The Terrorists...
By Matt Margolis at
02:04 PM
Jonathan over at GOP Bloggers certainly was right... I guess it was inevitable that liberal whining would result in another victory for the terrorists... The Bush administration, called to account by Congress after the Supreme Court blocked military tribunals, said Tuesday all detainees at Guantanamo Bay and in U.S. military...
Read Full Story. . .
July 09, 2006
Anti-War Blindness
By Mark Noonan at
02:22 AM
As our lefties would have it, just about nothing has been done to fight terrorism since 9/11 and all that happened in Iraq was a wild goose chase for Halliburton/Big Oil/Israel/Likud/Conspiracy O'The Week. Of course, it hasn't been like that - as John McIntyre over at Real Clear Politics picked...
Read Full Story. . .
July 07, 2006
NYC Tunnel Terror Plot Foiled
By Matt Margolis at
08:17 AM
Another victory in the war on terror.... Authorities have disrupted planning by foreign terrorists for an attack on New York City tunnels, two law enforcement officials said Friday. FBI agents monitoring Internet chat rooms used by extremists learned in recent months of the plot to strike a blow at the...
Read Full Story. . .
July 06, 2006
Vets for Freedom
By Mark Noonan at
07:23 AM
While our best and bravest are out there fighting for us, we here at home often feel a bit useless - no matter what we do, we aren't doing anything close fo what our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are doing. Nothing we do, of course, will allow us to...
Read Full Story. . .
July 05, 2006
Raising the Stakes With Syria
By Mark Noonan at
09:09 AM
Israel seems willing to strike at the real heart of the terrorist attacks on Israel: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday ignored a deadline to begin releasing Palestinian prisoners and instead issued a veiled threat against Syria, vowing to strike "those who sponsor" the militants in the Gaza Strip who...
Read Full Story. . .
Raising the Stakes With Syria
By Mark Noonan at
09:09 AM
Israel seems willing to strike at the real heart of the terrorist attacks on Israel: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday ignored a deadline to begin releasing Palestinian prisoners and instead issued a veiled threat against Syria, vowing to strike "those who sponsor" the militants in the Gaza Strip who...
Read Full Story. . .
July 01, 2006
Raising the Stakes in Gaza
By Mark Noonan at
03:02 AM
I don't know how entirely accurate this report is, but I think it does indicate how intense the situation is getting over there: ISRAEL last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed. The unprecedented warning was delivered...
Read Full Story. . .
Raising the Stakes in Gaza
By Mark Noonan at
03:02 AM
I don't know how entirely accurate this report is, but I think it does indicate how intense the situation is getting over there: ISRAEL last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed. The unprecedented warning was delivered...
Read Full Story. . .
June 30, 2006
Teaching Hamas a Lesson
By Mark Noonan at
03:35 AM
In the past, what is happening in Gaza would have resulted in senior American diplomats flying to the middle east for emergency meetings with Israeli officials; the UN would be on fire to have the Security Council issue a denunciation of the Israeli move; American politicians would be deplorying the...
Read Full Story. . .
June 29, 2006
Al Qaeda Granted Geneva Convention Protections By Supreme Court
By Matt Margolis at
10:58 AM
An absolute travesty......
Read Full Story. . .
June 28, 2006
Liberals Leading The War On Terror?
By Matt Margolis at
11:27 AM
Scary thought... but apparently there's a book out now that attempts to argue that only liberals can win the war on terror and "make American great again." I know... I know... What a crazy, stupid thought. But, it does bring me to ask the question "What if liberals were leading...
Read Full Story. . .
IDF Takes the Offensive
By Mark Noonan at
03:47 AM
It is a risky move, and dangerous - but they are our allies in the War on Terrorism, so my prayers are with the soldiers of the IDF who have gone in to battle in the Gaza: GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli tanks and troops entered southern Gaza...
Read Full Story. . .
June 27, 2006
Perhaps The New York Times Has Just Forgotten About 9/11
By Matt Margolis at
05:31 PM
Powerline finds an editorial from the New York Times, less than two weeks after 9/11, demanding the Bush administration get tough on terror financing... Just goes to show you who has forgotten 9/11 (the media and the Democrats) and who hasn't (Bush and the Republicans)....
Read Full Story. . .
Shut Down Gitmo?
By Matt Margolis at
09:14 AM
I have to say I find the recent stories about the desire to shut down the Guantanamo Bay Terrorist Prison to be really disturbing. Why are we going to let ourselves be bullied by political correctness? I'm tired of the media giving credence to every liberal wacko who has never...
Read Full Story. . .
June 26, 2006
Troop Reductions Are Not The Same As A Pullout
By Matt Margolis at
05:16 PM
It's amusing to see Democrats try to take credit for things they have nothing to do with. Now they're saying that the troop reductions being considered by General Casey is the same thing as Kerry's cut-and-run pullout plan....
Read Full Story. . .
June 23, 2006
Media Traitors
By Matt Margolis at
03:07 PM
Does the media want us to lose the war on terror? Jonathan advises us to urge the Department of Justice to "finally get serious about prosecuting those responsible for illegally revealing national security secrets." UPDATE: Vice-President Cheney discussed the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program earlier today in Illinois. "The President has...
Read Full Story. . .
June 22, 2006
Terror Plot Foiled
By Matt Margolis at
10:09 PM
Members of a radical African-American Muslim group were arrested in connection with an "alleged" terror plot that may have targeted the Sears Tower and the FBI Building in Miami. Certainly puts that DHS funding issue into perspective doesn't it....
Read Full Story. . .
The Enemy We Face
By Mark Noonan at
02:10 AM
An excellent description over at Opinion Journal: Privates Tucker and Menchaca were not simply ambushed, taken prisoner and killed. "The torture was something unnatural," said Major General Abdul Azziz Mohammed Jassim of Iraq's Defense Ministry, hinting at the state of the soldiers' remains. The corpses were so mutilated that they...
Read Full Story. . .
June 16, 2006
The Terrorist/MSM Connection
By Mark Noonan at
03:41 PM
I guess it was a year or so ago that I stated that the best way to swiftly reduce the overall level of violence in Iraq would be for the MSM to simply stop covering the terrorist attacks. Its nice to get some confirmation on this: More ink equals more...
Read Full Story. . .
June 13, 2006
Read It and Weep, Liberals
By Mark Noonan at
01:18 AM
This what we'll call the "Bush Effect" in international politics: After several hours in captivity, American-Jewish student Benjamin Bright-Fishbein was released unharmed early Sunday morning after he was kidnapped by Palestinian gunmen while visiting Nablus on Saturday... ...An IDF source said that Fishbein's US citizenship had saved his life since...
Read Full Story. . .
June 12, 2006
Saddam's Inner Circle Linked To Al Qaeda, Taliban
By Matt Margolis at
06:11 AM
FOX News reports...What was the relationship between Saddam Hussein's inner circle and Islamic terrorists? A newly released document captured in Iraq, but never before seen by the public, offers glimmers of new insight at the Pentagon's Foreign Military Studies Office Web site. The FMSO is a research and analysis center...
Read Full Story. . .
June 08, 2006
In The Wake Of Zarqawi's Death, Some Still Blame Bush
By Matt Margolis at
01:59 PM
I guess some people still see (and will always see) Bush as the evil one... Michael Berg, whose son Nick was beheaded in Iraq in 2004, said on Thursday he felt no sense of relief at the killing of the al Qaeda leader in Iraq and blamed President Bush for...
Read Full Story. . .
Zarqawi Is Dead
By Matt Margolis at
08:10 AM
It's official. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is dead. Or, as Senator John Cornyn put it, "Al Zarqawi has made his last video." This is great news. With the death of Zarqawi, his terror network has suffered a major blow. Enjoy the day. UPDATE: AP: Bush Hails Operation to Kill Al-Zarqawi UPDATE:...
Read Full Story. . .
June 02, 2006
Questions About Haditha
By Mark Noonan at
05:17 AM
I've been finding a lot of them to ask, and I haven't seen them asked anywhere else: 1. What, exactly, is the Hammurabi Human Rights Group? They provided the initial video, and I can't find a thing about them. 2. The allegation is of 24 civilians killed; were there any...
Read Full Story. . .
June 01, 2006
The left has been quite abuzz of late about the Haditha story. The bare bones of it is that our Marines are accused of murdering in cold blood 24 Iraqi civilians after one Marine was killed by a roadside bomb. I don't believe this story. And let me tell you...
Read Full Story. . .
May 20, 2006
Iraq's Parliament Approves New Cabinet
By Matt Margolis at
09:28 AM
But don't expect to hear much about this in the MSM. Iraq's parliament approved a national unity government Saturday, achieving a goal Washington hopes will reduce violence so U.S. forces can eventually go home. But as the legislators met, a series of attacks killed at least 27 people and wounded...
Read Full Story. . .
May 19, 2006
Morons At The U.N.
By Matt Margolis at
03:49 PM
So, on the same day it is reported that terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay attacked guards, the United Nations says "shut it down." I think we should shut down the U.N. instead....
Read Full Story. . .
May 18, 2006
Senator Carl Levin Is A Liar
By Matt Margolis at
02:08 PM
During his opening statement at the Hayden hearings, Senator Carl Levin, continued to suggest that intelligence was manipulated leading up to the Iraq war... Michigan Democratic Sen. Carl Levin, in his opening statement, said the two most recent CIA directors, Goss and George Tenet, had left the agency in disarray...
Read Full Story. . .
May 17, 2006
Iran Supplying al-Qaeda in Iraq?
By Mark Noonan at
