Good news out of Iraq :
We pay every bill, manage every facet of governance. The government at every level is a joke… They have almost no experience or education. A bunch of guys walk around in suits and look important while they do nothing.
The local governments […]

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From Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez’ speech and Q&A session at the Military Reporters & Editors convention:
Given the near instantaneous ability to report actions on the ground, the responsibility to accurately and truthfully report takes on an unprecedented importance. The speculative and often uninformed initial reporting that characterizes our media appears to be rapidly becoming the […]

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The question of what to do in Iraq today must be separated from the decision to topple Saddam Hussein four and a half years ago. That decision is a matter for historians. By any normal ethical standard, the coalition’s current project in Iraq is a just one. Britain, America and Iraq’s other allies are there […]

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Christopher Hitchens writes about the family of a young soldier killed in Iraq, who was partially motivated to serve by Hitchens’ own writings on the moral case for the war in Iraq. This is powerful stuff that I don’t even want to excerpt, go to Vanity Fair and read the whole thing.

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If you are not reading Michael Yon and Michael Totten, then you are not getting the whole story about Iraq.
We don’t see this kind of reporting in the New York Times because it doesn’t reinforce their reader’s preconceptions.

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What with Bush comparing the consequences of leaving Iraq to the aftermath in Southeast Asia after the US hung South Vietnam out to dry, Vietnam is a hot topic again. This article about how the military remembers Vietnam from the Atlantic truly is a must read, long but worthwhile.
It’s impossible to excerpt, but […]

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Much like in Stalin’s day, there’s nothing the left likes better than a nice purge.
Rep. Brian Baird’s (D-Wash.) recent conversion on the Iraq war is beginning to affect more than the national dialogue. On Wednesday, liberal group MoveOn.org announced an ad campaign against the congressman in his own district.
Baird recently returned from a trip to […]

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