Year: 2003

War Leads To Dangerous Destabilization In Iran By Rip Rowan By Rip Rowan: Even before the war in Iraq has been officially ended, dangerous signs of destabilization are already showing in neighboring Iran. Iran’s influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has suggested a referendum could be held on resuming ties with the United States, Iran’s […]

Sick — No New Posts Until Tomorrow: I feel totally snarky and under the weather and I even had to skip work. So no new posts until tomorrow — unless this is SARS, in which case I’ll have to wait for my powerful Conservative immune system to fight it off. Until tomorrow, John Hawkins signing […]

DU On Michael Kelly’s Death Part 2: Neal Boortz & Marni Soupcoff of “The American Enterprise Online” both talked about the ACPOTI article I did on the Democratic Underground’s reaction to Michael Kelly’s death. Well, some people at the DU got wind of it and here are some of the comments from the now deleted […]

Pelosi Praises U.S. Troops for Defending Immorality: (2003-04-11) — U.S. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, today praised American troops for their “valiant performance during this immoral, illegal, wicked war.” “I support the troops and oppose the war,” said Rep. Pelosi. “I think our men and women in uniform made us proud in this shameful […]

Rumsfeld Sorry for Embarrassing Anti-War Celebrities By Marni Malarkey: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld apologized to the celebrity community for the outcome of the war yesterday at his daily press briefing. “In spite of the joy we feel at what happened in Baghdad this week, it is tinged with sadness as we know that we […]

An Open Letter To The Arab Street: All across the world people saw Saddam’s statue being pulled down in Firdos Square & the wild euphoria in the street that followed. In much of the Western world, this event is being compared to the fall of the Berlin Wall. But, according to the Western media, the […]

The Jacques Chirac Apology Song: Many Conservatives, myself included, have said that we should start treating France like an enemy nation. I’ve suggested things like boycotts, tariffs, kicking France out of NATO, and pressuring our allies not to buy French products. But, perhaps I’ve been too harsh. Maybe an apology would be enough. But of […]

The Long Faces On Iraqi Liberation Day: Not everyone was happy for the Iraqi people yesterday. In fact, there were more than a few people who seemed to be down right gloomy about what was perhaps the greatest moment since the Berlin Wall fell. Here’s a little sampling from the anti-war crowd around the blogosphere… […]

The Real Reason We’re Invading Iraq: The people of Iraq may be happy now, but would they still be cheering if they knew that US marines were plundering Iraq of its precious puppies? Read on… “…The “barbarians,” as Marines with the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance unit are called, were about to become proud parents. “We […]

The Iraqi People Are Pulling Down That Statue? Nonsense, It’s A CIA Set-Up!: I really wish I was at home right now watching that Saddam statue come down because it sounds like the biggest moment since the Berlin Wall came down. I am genuinely excited for the Iraqi people and I’m proud that America and […]

The Iraqi ‘Quagmire’ In Quotes: On March 19th, American forces launched a “decapitation attack” designed to take out senior Iraqi leadership (including Saddam) in the opening moments of the war. But by March 24th, the media had already started sinking into a deep funk. That was the first day that the dreaded “V-Word” came up […]

Speculation About War Rumor May Be True By Scott Ott: (2003-04-07) — War correspondents were stunned today when speculation by a retired Pentagon planner about a rumor attributed to a anonymous captain somewhere near the front showed early signs of being true. While evidence of the veracity of the rumor has yet to be corroborated, […]

It’s Better To Leave The Children In Prison And Wage Peace: All across the blogosphere, people have been talking about this story… “More than 100 children held in a prison celebrated their freedom as US marines rolled into northeast Baghdad amid chaotic scenes which saw civilians loot weapons from an army compound, a US officer […]

US Isolationism & The Old World Order: The man who wrote this editorial understands something that Europe takes for granted and the Paleo-Conservatives in the US just don’t grasp. Here’s the essence of what he had to say… Since the end of the Cold War, the US’s grand strategy has been to maintain its overwhelming […]

Quagmire Quotes: I’m going to put up some quotes tomorrow from people people who said the war was a quagmire, another Vietnam, was going horribly, that the people of Iraq didn’t want to be liberated, etc, etc. There were a ton of articles written from that perspective about a week, week and a half ago. […]

Peace Protestor Expresses Frustration: Here’s a bit of Tuesday afternoon anti-war protestor satire for your amusement..

SPECIAL REPORT: Saddam Begins 2004 Re-election Campaign Amid War, Concerns Over Economy: BAGHDAD, IRAQ — In a surprise move, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein began his 2004 re-election campaign today with the slogan, “Go and die fighting for your country so I don’t have to kill you myself.” Political analysts believe he is trying to mobilize […]

Getting Ready For “Next Time” In Post-War Iraq: The fighting isn’t over yet, but the battle over post-war Iraq has begun. France, Germany, Russia, China, Kofi Annan & supposedly even Colin Powell & Tony Blair are all pushing to let the UN run Iraq after the war is over. Fortunately, it looks like that is […]

Awwwww…That’s Precious: Now this is really cute… “Lance Cpl. Brian Cole, 20, of Kansas City, Kan., was bowled over by the 7-year-old girl who handed him a Christmas card with this painstakingly written text: “Thank you for liberate us. And thank you for help us. You are a great army.” “That made my day, after […]

A Chat About The War With Bill Quick & Andrew Stuttaford: I got together to discuss the war with noted author & blogger Bill Quick from Daily Pundit & Andrew Stuttaford, a contributing editor for National Review Online. John Little from Blogs of War was supposed to join us as well, but unfortunately technical problems […]

I Don’t Care What The News Says, It’s Another Vietnam I Tell You — Another Vietnam!!!: Our manic-depressive press started the war out incredibly optimistic, then they almost immediately fell into a deep despair, and now they’re three feet high and rising. I personally expect another wave of gloom out of the press if we […]

The Democratic Underground On Michael Kelly’s Death: Tragically, Michael Kelly was killed in a humvee accident while traveling with the 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq. Kelly was the editor-at-large for the Atlantic Monthly, an excellent writer, and I have particular soft spot for him because he actually gave a passing mention to RWN in an […]

Thanks Cam!: Oklahoma City talk show host Cam Edwards invited me to be on his show this morning. Cam mentioned that RWN is one of his favorite pages and was very complimentary in general. We had a short discussion about the war, anti-war protestors, & even the kooks at the Democratic Underground came up. All […]

Of Course CNN & NYT & ABC Are CIA: The lunatic who runs Vox News has gotten his page back online and he’s just as crazy as he was the last time I perused his web page. He even thinks the CIA controls CNN and he has plenty of kooky readers who agree with him. […]