More confirmation that the war is finally being fought in Baghdad. U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested one of Muqtada al-Sadr’s top aides Friday in Baghdad, his office said, as pressure increased on the radical Shiite cleric’s militia ahead of a planned security crackdown in the capital. Al-Sadr said in an interview with an Italian newspaper…

The Democrats really need to pick a position and stick to it. They’re lurching around here like Frankenstein’s monster, not knowing what they’re doing. Now Pelosi is saying that they won’t block funding to the troops (this is from an interview with Pelosi that will air this morning on Good Morning America) : There may…

Sounds like they might be having trouble recruiting jihadists: A radical Australian cleric drew widespread condemnation Thursday over a series of videos in which he encourages children to become martyrs for Islam and ridicules Jews as pigs. Sheik Feiz Mohammed, head of the Global Islamic Youth Center in western Sydney, made the remarks on a…

In the comment section of this post, one of the commenters took exception to this quote: “BTW, it is a political ploy to embarrass the president” And stated that I was “being intellectually dishonest here” but what else do you call it when the same people who have been for troop build up are suddenly…

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