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June 08, 2006 08:16 AM EDT --
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaeda leader in Iraq who waged a terror campaign of suicide bombings and beheadings of hostages, has been killed in a U.S. airstrike.
What great news to hear upon awakening. . . .
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December 30, 2006 08:18 AM EST --
Saddam Is Dead
Al Arabiya TV reports Saddam Hussein Has Been Executed.
May he rot in hell for all eternity.
Don't lose any sleep over Saddam's execution. Hundreds of thousands of people died . . .
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December 13, 2006 11:35 AM EST --
The Los Angeles Times reports support has coalesced behind a plan for a substantial buildup in U.S. troops to Iraq, an increase in industrial aid to create jobs, and a major anti-Sadr combat offensive. . . .
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January 09, 2007 05:50 PM EST --
I want to hear another of those remarkable speeches in which President has set forth an ambitious vision of the post 9/11 world.
I want President Bush to remind us how we felt on September 11, 2001, as . . .
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January 11, 2007 12:18 AM EST --
Tonight President Bush announced our revised strategy for achieving victory in Iraq. It wasn't a great speech, but it was adequate. How can you give a great speech when everyone in the world knows . . .
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April 24, 2006 09:55 AM EDT --
The Associated Press reports Iraqi President Talabani is concerned about Iranian and Turkish troop concentrations on those countries' borders with Iraq:
Turkey has moved thousands of troops . . .
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June 02, 2006 12:39 PM EDT --
In today's edition of the Washington Times' Inside the Ring, Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough report three Marines were "humiliated" by Transportation Security Administration ("TSA")security . . .
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January 10, 2007 01:29 PM EST --
By now you are probably aware that Speaker Pelosi's current position that we should not increase the number of American troops in Iraq is quite inconsistent with her criticism of President Bush in . . .
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December 07, 2006 09:50 AM EST --
Democrat Silvestre Reyes, the soon-to-be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is calling for the deployment of 20,000 to 30,000 more U.S. troops in Iraq.
Reyes voted against the Iraq war resolution . . .
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April 21, 2006 01:54 PM EDT --
Jawad al-Maliki has been nominated to be Iraq's prime minister, replacing the incumbent, Ibrahim al-Jaafari.
According to the Associated Press, Al-Maliki is a top ally of al-Jaafari:
Al-Maliki is . . .
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April 22, 2006 11:49 AM EDT --
The Iraqi Parliament elected President Jalal Talabani , a Kurd, to a second term and gave the post of parliament speaker to Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, a Sunni Arab. Al-Mashhadani's two deputies were to . . .
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June 13, 2006 10:57 AM EDT --
President Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday.
Not even Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was aware the President was coming:
The prime minister had been invited to the embassy on the pretense . . .
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April 18, 2006 02:07 PM EDT --
Frontpage has an interview with Thomas Joscelyn, an expert on the international terrorist network. The interview focuses on the light recently realeased documents shed on the connection between Saddam's . . .
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May 23, 2006 05:39 PM EDT --
The New York Times reports the outlines of a nascent civil society are taking shape in Iraq.
Since 2003 the Iraqi government has registered 5,000 private organizations, including charities, human rights . . .
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December 08, 2006 09:25 AM EST --
The Associated Press reports Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq. The much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles. . . .
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January 11, 2007 11:32 AM EST --
Multinational forces detained six Iranians in an overnight raid on Tehran's diplomatic mission in the northern city of Irbil:
The forces stormed the Iranian mission at about 3 a.m., detaining the . . .
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June 09, 2006 02:51 PM EDT --
At Power Line Scot has posted a message from Lt. Peter Hegseth. Lt. Hegseth, originally from Forest Lake, Minnesota, is a graduate of Princeton University now serving in Iraq with the New Jersey Army National . . .
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June 16, 2006 02:36 PM EDT --
The House approved the Global War On Terror Resolution and rejected an "arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment" of troops from Iraq by a vote of 256-153.
The Global War On Terror . . .
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June 25, 2006 12:31 PM EDT --
Back from taking our daughter to summer camp, I checked the headlines and was excited to see the New York Times headline, "U.S. General in Iraq Outlines Troop Cuts." My excitement turned to a . . .
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January 08, 2007 10:12 AM EST --
President Bush has been hard at work reorganizing his security team and seeking advice and ideas from a wide variety of sources on how to achieve victory in Iraq. As the President puts it:
I want to . . .
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