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Wash Post: The Iraqi Upturn
Washington Post
Sunday, June 1, 2008; Page B06
Editorial “The Iraqi Upturn”
Jun 3, 2008
Topic: Citizenship, , War,
Al-Qaeda leaders admit: ‘We are in crisis…’
Feb 12, 2008
Topic: Citizenship, War,
WA Post: New Estimate of Iraqi Deaths Is Lower
By David Brown and Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, January 10, 2008; Page A18
A new survey estimates that 151,000 Iraqis died from violence in the three years following the U.S.-led invasion of the country. Roughly 9 out of 10 of those deaths were a consequence of U.S. military operations, insurgent attacks and sectarian warfare.
The survey, conducted by the Iraqi government and the World Health Organization, also found a 60 percent increase in nonviolent deaths — from such causes as childhood infections and kidney failure — during the period. The results, which will be published in the New England Journal of Medicine at the end of the month, are the latest of several widely divergent and controversial estimates of mortality attributed to the Iraq war.
Jan 15, 2008
Topic: Citizenship, War,
The Surge Worked
The Surge Worked
By JOHN MCCAIN and JOE LIEBERMAN
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
January 11, 2008
It was exactly one year ago Thursday, in a televised address to the nation, that President George W. Bush announced his fateful decision to change course in Iraq, and to send five additional U.S. combat brigades there as part of a new counterinsurgency strategy and under the command of a new general, David Petraeus.
At the time of its announcement, the so-called surge was met with deep skepticism by many Americans — and understandably so.
After years of mismanagement of the war, many people had grave doubts about whether success in Iraq was possible. In Congress, opposition to the surge from antiwar members was swift and severe. They insisted that Iraq was already “lost,” and that there was nothing left to do but accept our defeat and retreat.
In fact, they could not have been more wrong. And had we heeded their calls for retreat, Iraq today would be a country in chaos: a failed state in the heart of the Middle East, overrun by al Qaeda and Iran.
Instead, conditions in that country have been utterly transformed from those of a year ago, as a consequence of the surge. Whereas, a year ago, al Qaeda in Iraq was entrenched in Anbar province and Baghdad, now the forces of Islamist extremism are facing their single greatest and most humiliating defeat since the loss of Afghanistan in 2001. Thanks to the surge, the Sunni Arabs who once constituted the insurgency’s core of support in Iraq have been empowered to rise up against the suicide bombers and fanatics in their midst — prompting Osama bin Laden to call them “traitors.”
Jan 15, 2008
Topic: Citizenship, War,
Podhoretz: ‘America the Ugly’
BY NORMAN PODHORETZ
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks on us that took place on this very day six years ago, several younger commentators proclaimed the birth of an entirely new era in American history. What Dec. 7, 1941, had done to the old isolationism, they announced, Sept. 11, 2001, had done to the Vietnam syndrome. It was politically dead, and the cultural fallout of that war—all the damaging changes wrought by the 1960s and ’70s—would now follow it into the grave.
Sep 11, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, Human Rights, National, War,
Willcox: Why We Still Must Fight
By CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
September 11, 2007; Page D6
In all the grand speeches and requiem tributes today — commemorating the events of Sept. 11, 2001 — there are likely to be few references to Whittaker Chambers. But Norman Podhoretz rightly reminds us of Chambers in “World War IV,” his bracingly mordant account of the West’s battle against Islamofascism. It is a battle that entered a critical phase six years ago with the carnage in New York, Washington and rural Pennsylvania.
Sep 11, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, Human Rights, Religious Liberty, War,
NYT Op-Ed: A War We Just Might Win
New York Times
A War We Just Might Win
By MICHAEL E. O’HANLON and KENNETH M. POLLACK
Published: July 30, 2007
VIEWED from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel, the political debate in Washington is surreal. The Bush administration has over four years lost essentially all credibility. Yet now the administration’s critics, in part as a result, seem unaware of the significant changes taking place.
Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily “victory” but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.
Jul 30, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, War,
Read the So-Called “Land Letter” from 2002
October 3, 2002
Dear Mr. President,
In this decisive hour of our nation’s history we are writing to express our deep appreciation for your bold, courageous, and visionary leadership. Americans everywhere have been inspired by your eloquent and clear articulation of our nation’s highest ideals of freedom and of our resolve to defend that freedom both here and across the globe.
Apr 9, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Human Rights, National, War, Issues,
POLL: Most Americans Want to Win in Iraq
In the wake of the U.S. House of Representatives passing a resolution that amounts to a vote of no confidence in the Bush administration’s policies in Iraq, a new national survey by Alexandria, VA-based Public Opinion Strategies (POS) shows the American people may have some different ideas from their elected leaders on this issue.
Feb 20, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, National, War,
RADIO - Global Warming
Dr. Barrett Duke Guests hosts Richard Land Live! on Saturday January 6, 2007
Updated Jan 24, 2007 to point to the FFF version of the broadcast.
Jan 6, 2007
Topic: Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Life, Cloning, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Human Rights, Legislation, War, Science, Bioethics, Environment,