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. CURRENT & FORMER ARMY GENERALS MOUNT ANTI-OBAMA CAMPAIGN IRAQ WAR ARCHITECT LEADS CHARGE FOR MORE WAR YOUTUBE: THE YOUNG TURKS "Military Generals Rebel Against President Obama" "SIR, NO SIR!" Media Blitz Against Peace Starts On PBS: "To Hell With The People!" Army Gen. Jack Keane is a busy man...

Obama has been wrong about Iraq from square one. He was shocked when The Surge and The Awakening turned al Qaeda from the future of Islam in Iraq into the enemy of Islam in Iraq. Stunned. But what has me stumped is how stupid you have to be not to note you were wrong and adjust your thinking. And Pr...

Remember that George W. Bush got excoriated for this kind of thing: On Wednesday, the president met with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen and Central Command commander four-star Gen. David Petraeus. Gates, supported by Mullen and Petraeus, ...

There's actually a lot Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush....

Right now I’m going to say I’d rather get up late, walk to my TV or go to a watch party, and enjoy the ceremony. To me it looks like a hassle to even try and get into town. Those were the words I wrote in my last post, as I decided at the time I wouldn’t try to go on the mall. However some...

Anthony Shadid has a great story in The Washington Post that offers a microcosm look at the kind of compromises by which we’ve brought down the level of violence in Iraq. Specifically, he takes at Nadhim Khalil, the bossman of a Sunni Arab town called Thuluyah. I would say that these compromis...

Andrew Exum (aka “abu muqawama”) offers a rather blistering review of Linda Robinson’s Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq . This, too, is hagiography. (”It reads as if ghost-written by Petraeus,” one friend complained.) Th...

Bob Woodward’s new book The War Within is different than his last three books on the Bush administration. This book was touted as the smoking gun. It was going to explain how we went so wrong in Iraq. At least this was the scuttlebutt. This book does not even attempt to tell us why we got in I...

The democrats are lucky. All they need to do is make sure they continue to stabilize Iraq and Afghanistan and help Pakistan clear out the last remaining Islamo Fascists hold up in their northern tribal regions - then plan the victory parades. They will arrogantly claim they ended the Iraq war (hopef...