Red On Red

Glenn points to more red on red confirmation from Iraq The Model:

Meanwhile, there are some good news coming from Anbar.Al-Qaeda is apparently being chased down and confronted by Iraqis in Anbar and Samarra according to a report from al-Sabah. Mohammed al-Ubaidi is a citizen of Anbar who took part in a battle against al-Qaeda fighters said that people were enraged by the attacks that kill civilians in Anbar and other provinces and therefore have decided to form squads from the residents to rid Anbar from the foreign terrorists. The reports mentions that several tribes’ sheikhs had a meeting in the home of a sheikh of the Dulaim tribe where they pledged to fight al-Qaeda and throw them out of the province. There are also news that some 120 al-Qaeda members have already fled outside Iraq after a series of battles between their cells and the residents of Ramadi and other towns and suburbs of Anbar.According to the same report, similar measures are being taken by the residents in Samarra and have succeeded in forcing foreign terrorists out of their city.

And how could I have missed this?: "I have long believed that the US went into Iraq hoping to find the key to Iran. We'll find out when we try to turn the lock."

"OIF is a bomb that has detonated deep within the social structure of Iraq." ...

"Kos and MoveOn have conveniently convinced themselves that the war on terrorism is a mere subset of the struggle against the GOP. Whatever brings Democrats closer to power, ipso facto, makes the United States safer. That would be nice if it were true -- but it's clearly not, because, sometimes, Bush is right, and because, to some degree, our safety depends on his success." ...

"But insofar as the world was concerned his party was missing in action."

There goes Wretchard again...

But Hillary didn't bother to show up to hear about the actual realities of body armor of course...

The Pope gets more capital letter backing from my favorite neo-libertarians. Depressing though...

Can Al Gore put the mental back in environmental after this one?

"What do you think of Wahhabism?"

So

So, during the Clinton Administration, evidence existed (all of the information used in this article was available at the time) that:

-an invasive, extensive domestic eavesdropping program was aimed at every U.S. citizen;

-intelligence agencies were using allies to circumvent constitutional restrictions;

-and the administration was selling at least some secret intelligence for political donations.

These revelations were met by the New York Times and others in the mainstream media by the sound of one hand clapping. Now, reports that the Bush Administration approved electronic eavesdropping, strictly limited to international communications, of a relative handful of suspected terrorists have created a media frenzy in the Times and elsewhere.
The Times has historically been referred to as “the Grey Lady.” That grey is beginning to look just plain grimy, and many of us can no longer consider her a lady.

(Heh from Glenn)

Sowell has an educational update for us.

"Give me liberty or give me the right to have unprotected sex with men I don't want to have a child with" just isn't that attractive a principle in the light of day.

Can you spot the new key detail? I can...

"Here in Illinois, of course, we elect them to the U. S. Senate."

A Congress Of Your Peers. Surely someone can think of a problem with the idea...

EneMedia Watch: "Why yes, it did." Fewer EneMedia = less capability to damage Amerika, no? So blackout it is -- got to keep her alive at all costs!

Alaa also has a remedial update. (HT Glenn)

The latest from Hitch on Iraq. Mostly just a remedial update...

Psychonucleosis update. Are even our purported "friends" having second thoughts? What lies in between Afghanistan and Iraq again? Oh yeah, that's right!

UPDATE: "... this moron explained ..."

"Their desire was to cross the border and get to the heart of the problem."