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Currahee!

Jimmie | May 9, 2009 | Comments (1)

When I was a kid, I used to believe that there were magic words, words that had special power. Of course, as an adult, I’m supposed to have given up such a silly idea, but sometimes I wonder if there are some words we have invested with so much emotion, history, and meaning that they [...]

Friedman: Iraq’s Triumphs are Obama’s Triumphs

Jimmie | November 30, 2008 | Comments (0)

The boldness of the MSM’s bias is simply breathtaking sometimes. Thomas Friedman asserts, without any shame at all, that any triumph of the strengthening Iraqi civil society will be credited to Barack Obama. No, really. In 2003, the United States, under President Bush, invaded Iraq to change the regime. Terrible postwar execution and unrelenting attempts [...]

The Miracle Continues to Unfold in Iraq

Jimmie | October 23, 2008 | Comments (1)

Last month, our soldiers handed over Anbar Province, once the “scene of the bloodiest battles of the insurgency”, to the Iraqis. Today, they turn over Babil province, once known as the “triangle of death”. It is the “triangle of death” no more, just as Anbar is no longer a hotbed of Islamist murder, because of [...]