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I guess we all need to make some sort of sacrifice because of the war in Iraq.
US President George W. Bush said in an interview out Tuesday that he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of US soldiers killed in the conflict in Iraq, now in its sixth year.
“I [...]

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Even as McCain tries to distance himself from Mr 71% by intimating what many have already known for years, the war in Iraq was more about oil than terrorism, he still cannot get clear of his 100 years in Iraq remark. During a town hall meeting in Denver this morning he spoke on both [...]

On this, the day before the 5th anniversary of President Bush declaring “Mission Accomplished” from the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino looks to finally clarify exactly what the President meant when she was asked how he would commemorate his declaration of the ending of the conflict.
PERINO: President [...]

Theophrastus Bombastus over at Dakota Voice posts this morning on a Drudge Headline and he appears to be chastising the Dems for seeking to use excess Iraqi oil money to help rebuild the country.
I seem to recall not that long ago that all the lib web sites and blogs were ranting about how the Iraq [...]

Somebody didn’t get the memo.
A former Corvallis city councilman has died from injuries sustained when rockets pounded Baghdad’s U.S.-protected Green Zone on Easter, according to a story in the Corvallis Gazette Times.
Dick and Leona Converse of Corvallis said they learned Sunday that their son, Paul Converse, had been injured and likely wouldn’t survive. On Monday, [...]

The not so publicized cost of the war that you won’t see on all the rosy accounts of the recent events in the war.
At least 20,000 U.S. troops who were not classified as wounded during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have been found with signs of brain injuries, according to military and veterans records [...]

First Harry Reid says that the California wildfires can be attributed to global warming.
As you know, one reason that we have the fires burning in Southern California is global warming. One reason the Colorado Basin is going dry is because of global warming.
Then soon thereafter in the same interview he said it wasn’t.
Question: Senator, [...]

The same day that the Washington Post editorial staff crowed about casualties being down in Iraq.
NEWS COVERAGE and debate about Iraq during the past couple of weeks have centered on the alleged abuses of private security firms like Blackwater USA. Getting such firms into a legal regime is vital, as we’ve said. But meanwhile, some [...]

Not only are the Democrats not keeping the promises that put them in office, they are also ignoring the views of their constituents. The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that 69% think that Congress should at least reduce the money spent in Iraq and to more heavily challenge the president over Iraq.
Part of the [...]

Democrats swept their way into the majority in Congress last year mainly by promising to get us out of Iraq. So how’s that working?
Thwarted in efforts to bring troops home from Iraq, Senate Democrats on Monday helped pass a defense policy bill authorizing another $150 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nothing like [...]

The General that has already been called out for not being entirely honest when reporting on the still not-ready-for prime time Iraq security forces when he was in charge of their training is now having to be defended by the person that put him in the line of fire in the first place. President Bush [...]

You are probably reading accounts this morning of President Bush’s speech last night where he proudly announced that US troop levels would be reduced by as much as 30,000 but guess what? According to numerous accounts, it is only because 30,000 troops will have reached the end of their deployments and we don’t have the [...]