This past weekend, Lawrence, Massachusetts welcomed Army Staff Sgt. Alex Jimenez home. Fourteen months ago, the 25-year-old was reported missing after he and two other soldiers were captured during an ambush in Iraq.On Saturday, Sgt. Jimenez’s flag-draped casket, resting atop a horse-drawn carriage, was somberly escorted by members of the 10th Mountain Division through flag-lined […]

Analysis: US now winning Iraq war that seemed lost
By ROBERT BURNS and ROBERT H. REID - 2 days ago
BAGHDAD (AP) - The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost.
Limited, sometimes sharp fighting and periodic terrorist bombings in Iraq are likely to continue, possibly for years. But the Iraqi government […]

550 metric tons of yellowcake ferreted out of Iraq on the way to Canada.
This yellowcake, from what I understand, was from Gulf War 1.
I guess the left’s position now is going to be…

“Well, we had no business going into Iraq. We should have left that yellowcake with Saddam Hussein and his multi-billion-dollar fraud known […]

Here’s some of what she said.
PELOSI: If a resolution is not appropriate, then it remains for the credentials committee at the convention to resolve it. Then, earlier than that, I will step in, because we cannot take this fight to the convention. It must be over before then. I believe it […]

Bloomberg News:
“Brazil’s discoveries of what may be two of the world’s three biggest oil finds in the past 30 years could help end the Western Hemisphere’s reliance on Middle East crude, Strategic Forecasting Inc. said. Saudi Arabia’s influence as the biggest oil exporter would wane if the fields are as big as advertised, and China […]

While in the Middle East this week, former president Jimmy Carter has generated some press for his efforts to befriend the Islamic terrorist group Hamas.
Despite rebuffs from Israel — and our own government — Carter is playing the role of a “communicator,” as he calls it, supposedly gathering information from Hamas and Syrian leaders to […]

We’re not cynical. We’re outraged at the government because it’s the government that’s leading to high gasoline prices because we won’t drill for our own oil.
Here is a story, this is from RigZone.com:
“Massive Oil Deposit Could Increase US reserves by 10x — America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil […]

From the Times of London…
“Al-Qaeda Leaders Admit: ‘We are in Crisis. There is Panic and Fear’ — Al-Qaeda in Iraq faces an ‘extraordinary crisis.’ Last year’s mass defection of ordinary Sunnis from Al-Qaeda to the US military ‘created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight’. The terrorist group’s security structure suffered ‘total collapse.’ […]

Everybody is harping on the fact that they supposedly ceased their development in 2003, but they still are seeking uranium. They still have all the centrifuges – and, you know, that’s not to produce gasoline or electric power for the people of Iran. It would be silly to take this report and say, […]

Yesterday in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Representative John Murtha held a video conference with reporters to talk about his trip to Iraq, from which he just returned.
MURTHA: I — I think — I think the surge is — is working.
What? What did he say?
MURTHA: I — I think — I think […]