Author: John Hawkins

Ted Rall Lets Us Know What He Thinks Of America’s Soldiers: Ted Rall certainly qualifies as mainstream left-winger. After all, if he was on the fringes of the left, Yahoo certainly wouldn’t publish his columns and the New York Times wouldn’t run his cartoons right? Well the man who is perhaps the left’s favorite cartoonist, […]

Stop On A Dime And Head In The Other Direction: I want you to try to guess which American politician is being talked about and quoted in this article. Ready? “(Politician X) who voiced his support for the troops fighting in Iraq, said it made sense after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to become […]

An Anti-War Minister Who Went To Iraq And Changed His Mind: This editorial written by minister Ken Joseph Jr of Tokyo was so powerful that I just had to post excerpts from it. If you have any friends who claim to care about the Iraqi people and yet don’t want us to liberate them, show […]

The Length Of The War, Civilian Casualties, & How The Useful Idiots Unwittingly Help Saddam: I wish I could say I was surprised by the gloomy & pessimistic coverage of the war by much of the mainstream media, but it’s nothing new. We’re 8 days into the war and we’re already hearing a lot about […]

Close Ties With France? No Thanks: French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin spoke at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and said that, “he was confident that France and the United States would re-establish the close ties they enjoyed before the Iraqi crisis unfolded.” Why would the United States want to maintain “close […]

You Can’t Make Us Accept That Iraq Has WMD!: The lengths to which some people are going to deny that Iraq has WMD simply boggles the mind. To begin with, I cannot imagine how anyone who has spent more than five minutes studying the situation in Iraq could possible believe Saddam doesn’t have WMD. Come […]

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No, He Wasn’t “Driven” To It: I understand that parents hate to believe the worst about their kids. Because of that, I normally don’t tear into the parents for sticking up for their kids after they’ve committed some sort of atrocity. But the comments from Asan Akbar’s stepfather are over the line…. “(Asan Akbar’s) stepfather, […]

War, Peace & Cable TV By Ron Marr: If you seek evidence of the degradation of common sense in America, you need look no further than the reactions currently pouring forth from certain segments of the general public and virtually all of the talking heads on TV. At the time of this writing, though we […]

Misleading Polling Data: The significance and results of a recent Pew Poll are being widely misreported. Here’s a sample of what you’re seeing in stories all over the news…. “Public’s Confidence in War Success Drops Images of battered American POWs, a downed Apache helicopter and U.S. fatalities in Iraq have had a dramatic impact on […]

Saddam Vs. The Animal Kingdom: Look out Saddam! Even the animal kingdom is against you… “With a camera strapped to his fin, the bottle-nose dolphin is one of about 100 dolphins and sea lions helping to clear shipping lanes in the Gulf to ensure a safe passage for vessels, including those which will provide humanitarian […]

Things Aren’t Going As Badly As The Mainstream Media Would Have You Believe: For some reason, the mainstream media has a tendency to give a very negative spin to war news. Maybe it’s because they tend to lean to the left or because of the media’s tendency to accentuate the negative aspects of stories, but […]

The Michael Fumento Interview: I was pleased to get an opportunity to interview Michael Fumento by email. For those of you who are unfamiliar with his work, here’s a little information about Mr. Fumento from his bio… “Mr. Fumento has lectured on science and health issues throughout the nation and the world, including Great Britain, […]

DU Post Of The Day: Here’s the crazed wacko post of the day from the DU. When you read stuff like this at the Democratic Underground you just have to wonder how in touch with reality some of these people are… HappyLibLady (1155 posts): “It was interesting to see the interviews being held with a […]

What’s The Point Of The Geneva Convention?: Even I find all these claims that the Iraqis are violating the Geneva Convention in the way that they’re treating our prisoners to be ludicrous. That’s not because I don’t believe the Iraqis are violating the Geneva Convention, but because no one could possibly expect that the Iraqis […]

Don’t Claim To Be Against The War Because Of The Iraqi People: As we all know, the anti-Bush anti-war crowd wants to leave Saddam in place get rid of Saddam just as much as the pro-war crowd. But, they don’t think we should go to war and remove Saddam because it’s in America’s interests and […]

Let The Vietnam Comparisons Begin: I think we have a new record. In Afghanistan, 24 days after we started the bombing and roughly five weeks before we had almost the whole country in hand, RW. Apple from the New York Times was asking, “Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate […]

Vacation: I know, I know, here we are at the beginning of war, possibly hours away from a devastating “shock and awe” attack on Baghdad and I’m heading to the beach. That means no more updates today and no news or posts tomorrow. I’d love to hang around, but I need the time off and […]

I’ll Laugh My *ss Off For Everyone Of Them That Comes Home In A Black Bag: Last night as we were launching missiles at “targets of opportunity”, most people were probably wondering about whether we got Hussein or one of his kids. But me? I was wondering what sort of idiotic comments the anarchists at […]

Support Our Troops: War with Iraq appears to be imminent and it looks like the men and women in our armed forces will soon be going into combat. They’re going to be putting their lives on the line to protect our country and to liberate the Iraqi people and some of them won’t be coming […]

In My World: Rumsfeld Vows Frog-A-Cide By Frank J: “Can we start bombing them now?” Rumsfeld asked impatiently. “No, we still have to wait just a little bit more,” Condoleezza Rice answered. “If it weren’t for that sissy little Texan,” Rumsfeld declared angrily, “I could of demolished Iraq long ago, along with North Korea and […]

Saddam — Undead Despot?: The Globe and Mail has interviewed a crackpot Iraqi doctor who has a rather odd theory about Saddam Hussein… “About 10 years ago, I became interested in the link between physical traits and personality,” he said. “I began to study Saddam Hussein but when I looked at his ears in photographs […]