The reception Jon Carry received in Iraq
WDAY’s Scott Hennen has a photo and report from a friend of his who is serving in Iraq on the reception Senator John Kerry received in Iraq.
Good news from Afghanistan
The AP is reporting this morning that the US military has killed a top Taliban commander who they describe as a “close associate of Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar and Afghan insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar” earlier this week.
Haditha charges issued
Allah has links galore on the news today that Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich will be charged with 13 counts of murder in the deaths of 24 people in Haditha last November.
Victor Davis Hanson on presidential candidates and ‘diplomacy’
I missed this one when it was first posted a couple of days ago, but VDH smacks down wannabe-foreign-policy-diplomat-types like Senator Kerry and NM Governor Richardson who have made it a point to meddle in US foreign policy by having talks with and/or visiting countries hostile to what the US, visits and talks that could undermine US policy towards those countries:
Members of the military, others, respond to Rep. Rangel and Sen. Kerry’s insults about their education
First, a recap of Rangel’s and Kerry’s comments about our troops:
What was the real reason behind the six imams publicity wave?
Katherine Kersten at the Star Tribune has an eye-opening piece that contains a detailed speculation that the imams who were escorted off the US Airways flight at Minneapolis/St. Paul International airport a few weeks ago may have been trying to drum up some publicity for a proposal that has been languishing in the House for the last two years called the “End Racial Profiling Act” – sponsored by Michigan Rep. John Conyers who, as noted in the article, represents a district with one of the largest Muslim populations in the country. Kersten writes: