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Posted at 9:16pm on May 22, 2008 Congressman admits Democrats "stretched the facts," misled anti-war supporters about supposed plans for ending War

By Jeff Emanuel

Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) has been a fairly undistinguished member of the House of Representatives for nearly a quarter of a century. He is a career member of the Financial Services Committee who has made little or no name for himself since his first electoral victory, and has maintained incumbency through the funneling of pork back to his district. Even his Wikipedia entry says that Kanjorski "usually plays behind-the-scenes roles in the advocacy or defeat of legislation and steers appropriations money toward improving the infrastructure and economic needs of his district."

Never one to stand out in a crowd outside of his own district if he could help it up until now, Rep. Kanjorski's public life may be about to change in a major way very, very quickly, and for a very big reason.

You see, Paul Kanjorski has an honesty problem.

More specifically, Paul Kanjorski's problem is that he was publicly honest about the intentional dishonesty of Congressional Democrats (and Democrat candidates) in the run-up to the 2006 election -- particularly with regard to the War in Iraq.

Watch the video below (a transcript follows):

More below the fold....

Posted in anti-war Democrats | Democrats | Great Netroot Betrayal | Kneel Before Zod | PA-11 | Paul Kanjorski | War — Comments (19)/ Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 10:53am on May 16, 2008 Present Instead of No

By Erick

Having blasted the House GOP this week, let me praise them today.

They got fed up with the Democrats playing games with the lives of our troops. The Democrats, in pushing their war supplemental, highlighted their real priorities. In order, they were tax increases on the entrepreneurial class, spending on liberal social programs, tying the hands of the Commander-in-Chief, and screwing the war criminals in Iraq troops.

The GOP did the only thing left they could do -- they refused to participate in the game. Instead of even voting no, they voted present. It had a lot of people scratching their heads, but these people paid attention and asked why.

And, again, the answer is simple: the Democrats are playing games with the lives of our soldiers in harm's way. They do not want to fund the troops, but they know they have to. So they are trying to fund everything else first and daring the President to veto the funding.

He will. He should. And the GOP continues to be the party that stands up for the troops. Here's Roy Blunt on the matter:

the bottom line on this week's bill was it was never designed to fund the troops. The Democrats knew that this would not be a bill signed into law. It was designed to be a package that used the troops to do other spending that they know they can't get done without the troops.

Republican members voted present on that section of the bill. We then demonstrated we had the veto-sustaining strength that everybody knew we had on the other two sections of the bill.

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Posted at 7:42pm on May 15, 2008 Putting Bush's Words In Context: Barack Obama, Neville Chamberlain, and the Art of Appeasement

By Erick

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Posted at 1:47pm on May 2, 2008 Democrat Congress Hostage Crisis: US Soldiers STILL Awaiting Rescue

More than 440 Days and counting, Pelosi and Reid set to exceed Iran's adventure in holding Americans hostage...

By haystack

Surely everyone remembers the 444 days of helplessness we all felt when Iranian goons took over our embassy, holding America (and that terrorist-hugging President that failed us so miserably when we needed him most) hostage? Well, according to Minority Whip Roy Blunt, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are about to BEAT that 444 number....and our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines still await help from home:

It has now been more than 440 days since the original supplemental was sent to Congress – while pieces were passed, the entire bill has languished. There has been more than enough time for Democrats to act. This bill must be passed before the Memorial Day recess and the shameful tactics of the Democratic leadership have only ensured its defeat.

Back in February, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell made very clear what was at stake regarding this supplemental bill:

“We need that money as soon as possible so there is no disruption to our warfighting efforts and not a disruption to our soldiers’ lives, both in the field and their families at home,” Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters during a news conference.

SecDef Gates also stated back in February that a delay in the supplemental “degrades our ability to operate and sustain our force at home and in theater and makes it difficult to manage this department in a way that is fiscally sound.” Defense Department Comptroller Tina W. Jonas (also back in February) suggested that "the Army will run out of money to pay troops in June and will be unable to fund operations in July if the department doesn’t receive the emergency supplemental funds soon."

The Army stated back in November that it "would have to furlough civilian employees and close bases if emergency supplemental funding earmarked for installation operations and maintenance wasn’t approved by Congress." [Ft. Bragg, anyone? Walter Reed's Building 18 perhaps?] As Morrell put it , “we are soon going to be confronted with the same situation we found ourselves in at the end of last year, having to look down the barrel of the frightening prospect of running out of operations and maintenance money, from which we pay our forces and do lots of other things in the global war on terror.”

Guess how important this is to Harry Reid (subscription required):

“I think we’ll do our best to finish this before the Memorial Day break, but if we don’t, it’s no big deal. There’s money there. I don’t know why there is a rush to judgment, this is moving along quite rapidly. We’re not behind schedule. Everything’s fine."

No big deal, huh? Ask the mom with 2 kids at home while Dad's at war if it's a big deal Harry, when she doesn't get that paycheck. In fact, hunker down in a firefight with no ammunition left and see if this is "no big deal" Harry...

More on the "shameful tactics of the Democratic leadership" below the fold...

Posted in Congress | Congress Fails America | Ineptitude | Supplemental Bill | The Costs of Partisanship | War — Comments (8)/ Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 7:44am on Apr. 7, 2008 Right On Cue

By NightTwister

Promoted by absentee. Love the comparison

Senator Joe Biden Declares Iraq Troop Buildup a Failure as reported by the Associate Press via FoxNews.com.

During the weekly Democratic radio address yesterday, he said,

The purpose of the surge was to bring violence in Iraq down so that its leaders could come together politically. Violence has come down, but the Iraqis have not come together.

The eternally optimistic leader later added,

There is little evidence the Iraqis will settle their differences peacefully any time soon.

Although somewhat subdued this time, Senator Biden's comments are a clear preemptive strike against General Petraeus' scheduled report to congress this coming week. The democrat congressional leadership simply cannot weather another positive report about progress in Iraq.

Read on ...

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Posted at 2:01am on Mar. 29, 2008 Fitna, Hosted by Pat Dollard

By Neil Stevens

'Bash' at Pat Dollard says that he will never bow to threats and take down his copy of Geert Wilders' Fitna, and it sounds like he has the guns to back that up.

Link via Ace of Spades.

Posted at 2:59pm on Mar. 27, 2008 Fitna, in English

By Neil Stevens

Here it is: Geert Wilders's work on our enemy in the War on Terror, uncut and holding nothing back. Be warned: This movie graphically depicts the death and destruction of terrorism, including the 9/11 attacks and beheadings.

Comments enabled. Movie embedded below the fold via Live Leak where Wilders posted it himself.

Posted at 12:49pm on Feb. 12, 2008 World War IV

The Powerline Blog Honors Norman Podhoretz for his latest book

By blackhedd

Last evening, Dan McLaughlin and I had the privilege of attending a dinner at the Four Seasons hotel, given by our friends at the Powerline blog. The purpose of the event was to honor longtime Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz on the occasion of his recently-published book World War IV.

Quite a constellation of journalists, bloggers and dignitaries were present. The evening featured speeches by Henry Kissinger, Mark Steyn and Mr. Podhoretz, followed by a panel discussion and Q/A. Look on this page from Gateway Pundit for some photos from the event. Scroll down the page and you'll see Dan (miscredited as "Ken") and yours truly (miscredited as anonymous!).

The subject was the Bush Doctrine.

Read on...

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Posted at 1:51am on Jan. 13, 2008 You don't understand! We're lying to you for your own good!

And because we think that you're incredibly stupid

By Jeff Emanuel

Remember that Lancet study on Iraq deaths that was so poorly researched, and so widely discredited, that even anti-Iraq-and-America alarmist site Iraq Body Count refused to accept its ridiculously inflated conclusion of 650,000 Iraqis killed since the 2003 invasion?

Well, the Sunday Times Online is reporting that the study was funded by -- you guessed it -- George Soros.

Here's guessing that liberals the world over will rush to his defense, since, as you know, lies, made-up facts, trumped-up atrocities, and, yes, lies are perfectly acceptable on the part of the Left when it's for a "greater good" -- and make no mistake: to these folks, anything that paints the U.S. as a force for terror and murder in the world, and pushes more Americans to demand that we withdraw from Iraq and surrender it and the rest of the region to Islamofascist terrorists, is indeed "for the greater good."

Posted in Anti-war liberals | George Soros | Iraq | liars | Liberals | Lying Liars | War — Comments (62)/ Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 1:33pm on Dec. 28, 2007 "You Fought for America, You Gave Everything...They Want More"

New Anti-War Film Based on Controversial Stop-Loss Policy

By Michelle Oddis

Last weekend I went to see the new chick flick “P.S. I Love you.”

I was in the mood for romantic cry-fest and studs with Irish accents, but before I got a chance to use my tissues I saw this preview for a new anti-war film called "Stop-Loss." Watch the trailer...

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Posted at 2:23pm on Dec. 21, 2007 There's Still A War On. But For Now, It's Going Pretty Well.

This Should Be Good News.

By Dan McLaughlin

The good guys aren't the only ones who have problems with former supporters turning on them:

One of Al Qaeda's senior theologians is calling on his followers to end their military jihad and saying the attacks of September 11, 2001, were a "catastrophe for all Muslims."

In a serialized manifesto written from prison in Egypt, Sayyed Imam al-Sharif is blasting Osama bin Laden for deceiving the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, and for insulting the Prophet Muhammad by comparing the September 11 attacks to the early raids of the Ansar warriors. The lapsed jihadist even calls for the formation of a special Islamic court to try Osama bin Laden and his old comrade Ayman al-Zawahri.

The disclosures from Mr. Sharif, also known as Dr. Fadl and Abd al-Qadir ibn Abd al-Aziz, have already opened a rift at the highest levels of Al Qaeda. The group's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, a former associate of the defecting theologian in Egypt, personally mocked him last month in a video, remarking that he was unaware Egyptian prisons had fax machines. Meanwhile, leading Western analysts are saying the defection of Mr. Sharif indicates the beginning of the end for Al Qaeda.

Read On...

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Posted at 2:56pm on Dec. 2, 2007 Turkey keeps up its own War on Terror in Iraq

By Jeff Emanuel

Is ours legitimate, and theirs not?

The latest skirmish between the Turkish military and the PKK, a Kurdish organization recognized by the US, among others, as a terrorist outfit, saw Turkey hammering a group of about 50 fighters in northern Iraq with artillery and airstrikes yesterday. According to the AFP:

The Turkish army said it inflicted "heavy losses" on a group of around 50 members of the armed Kurdish separatist movement PKK in northern Iraq on Saturday.

The army said it used artillery and airstrikes against a group of "50 to 60 terrorists" southeast of the Turkish town of Cukurca in Hakkari province on the Turkey-Iraq border.

"If necessary other army units will intervene in the region," it added.

Jabbar Yawar, the head of peshmerga forces in northern Iraq (Kurdistan), said without elaborating that Turkish aircraft were "trespassing northern Iraqi airspace since a week."

Read on.

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Posted at 8:01am on Nov. 29, 2007 Ron Paul is not a Goldwater Republican

By Neil Stevens

Look, there's a fair amount of Senator Barry Goldwater's track record that I don't agree with, even if his run for the Presidency in 1964 was standard for conservatism for a quarter century. But in the debate tonight, when Representative Ron Paul repudiated our fight in Vietnam, Ron Paul repudiated Barry Goldwater.

Read On...

Posted in 1964 | 2008 | Barry Goldwater | Communism | Contra Tyrannum | Iraq | Ron Paul | Vietnam | War — Comments (35)/ Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 11:29am on Nov. 17, 2007 Yankee Deserter Go Home

By Neil Stevens

Via AcademicElephant, here's a heartwarming story from what appears to be an unpleasant source ("information from occupied Iraq?"): Canada shuts doors to US war resisters:

Two U.S. Army deserters who fled to Canada and sought refugee status on grounds of their opposition to the war in Iraq have lost their bids to have the Supreme Court of Canada hear their cases.

The court refused to hear the appeals of Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey Thursday, who were rejected two years ago by Canada's immigration authorities.

They're not going to be deported immediately, but Canada clearly does not want to let itself be the dumping ground for our deserters. Good for them.