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The Tale of an Iraq War Tank Commander. . .

15. September 2008

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Iraq Tank Commander Nick Popaditch (The Cigar Marine) on Political Pistachio Radio! www.blogtalkradio.com/politicalpistachio On The Radio Tuesday Night! ONCE A MARINE - An Iraq War Tank Commander’s Inspirational Story of Combat, Courage, and Recovery. Nick Popaditch appeared in an AP photo on April 9, 2003. The striking image was of the Marine tank commander smoking a victory [...]

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Good News: No Global Consensus on Who’s Responsible for 9/11

10. September 2008

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Mind-blowingly stupid considering, as Reuters notes, that OBL has bragged about organizing the attack and there’s no reputable evidence to the contrary. Only 9 of the 17 countries polled could claim majorities understanding that Al Qaeda is responsible, and even the numbers in those are extremely troubling: On average, 46 percent of those surveyed said al [...]

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Brits Struck Deal with Mahdi Militia to Remain Out of Fight

4. August 2008

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British forces struck a deal with enemy militias that prevented them from coming to the aid of American and Iraqi forces during the Battle for Basra, the London Times reports. One American solider and 60 Iraqis were killed in fighting with Moqtada al-Sadr’s Iranian-backed militia. A secret deal between Britain and the notorious al-Mahdi militia prevented [...]

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US Denies Zawahiri Death Claim

1. August 2008

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U.S. officials have found no credible evidence to support claims that Al Qaeda’s #2 Ayman Al-Zawahiri has been criticially wounded or killed, according to CNN. A senior intelligence official told CNN there is no evidence to support the CBS report on al-Zawahiri, and no reason to believe it is true. “This is utterly uncorroborated, and at this [...]

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Second Report: Zawahiri Critically Wounded, Possibly Dead

1. August 2008

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Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command of Al Qaeda, is potentially critically wounded or dead, according to a Taliban memo intercepted by sources for CBS News. This is actually the second report, from two different credible sources, of Zawahiri’s death in the past 24 hours. CBS News has obtained a copy of an intercepted letter from sources in [...]

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Team Obama: Team McCain Should be Less Paranoid

31. July 2008

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This coming from the campaign that took a commercial comparing Obama to a celebrity and construed it to be a racist attack. They’re now going to tell other people not to be paranoid?

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