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I'm imagining an Obama victory. I'm imagining how the McCain campaign will blame the loss solely on the economy. I'm imagining a Government controlled by Senator Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader Reid. I'm imagining we could still surrender in Iraq. I'm imagining how quickly troops could be pulled from the Middle East. I'm imagining how quickly Al Queda could regain control. I'm imagining our Government apoligizing to the Taliban, the Government of Iran and other Radical groups. I'm imagining the War Crimes Trials which would be held, accusing the Bush administration and it's supporters, including Senator John McCain, of...

Is the Federal Reserve Engaged in Acts of Economic Warfare Against America? (NaturalNews) In 1942, German intelligence officers rounded up skilled Jewish prisoners and launched Operation Bernhardt, a clever scheme designed to counterfeit hundreds of millions of dollars worth of British Pounds and destroy the British economy by flooding it with counterfeit money. Located in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Operation Bernhardt was, even by modern standards, a runaway success that resulted in the creation of forged bank notes worth 132 million British Pounds. This "economic warfare" operation resulted in a devastating economic effect on the British economy. You can...

Why does McCain not fire back at Nobama regarding Iraq? It is my understanding that the conflict in Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11 or terrorists. Am I correct? Wasn't there a bunch of UN sanctions that Hussien was supposed to comply with? Weren't there a bunch of gutless countries supposed to help us there? It frustrates me that McCain doesn't set that record straight during these debates. Why doesn't he???

The McCain campaign knows that Obama isn't a Muslim or a terrorist, but they're willing to help a certain kind of voter think he is. Just the way certain South Carolinians in 2000 were allowed to think that McCain's adopted daughter from Bangladesh was his illegitimate black child. But words can have more serious consequences than lost votes and we've already had a glimpse of the Palin effect. Dana Milbank of The Washington Post reported that media representatives in Clearwater were greeted with taunts, thunder sticks and profanity. One Palin supporter shouted an epithet at an African-American soundman and said,...

If there is one guy in American politics who can come back from the dead, it's John McCain. He has done it before. The only way McCain changes the direction of this race tonight at his second debate with Barack Obama is to shift the focus far from all the domestic-economic issues that are killing him so badly. McCain won't win the economic argument no matter how hard he tries, and he's still trying - as shown by yesterday's searing speech trying to pin the financial crisis on the Democrats. McCain's got to coax Obama back onto the foreign-policy turf...

By Fjordman September 30 2008 The following essay is an amalgam of my previous online essays, among them Who Are We, Who Are Our Enemies — The Cost of Historical Amnesia, Why We Should Oppose an Independent Kosovo, Refuting God’s Crucible and The Truth About Islam in Europe. The Jihad, the Islamic so-called Holy War, has been a fact of life in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East for more than 1300 years, but this is the first history of the Muslim wars in Europe ever to be published. Hundreds of books, however, have appeared on its...

"Death Rates from Wars With that understanding and reverence for life, we deplore the loss of life associated with warfare. The data are appalling. In World War I, more than 8 million military fatalities occurred. In World War II, more than 22 million servicemen and women died.2 Together, these two wars, covering portions of 14 years, cost the lives of at least 30 million soldiers worldwide. That figure does not include the millions of civilian casualties. These data, however, are dwarfed by the toll of another war that claims more casualties annually than did World War I and World War...

MEXICO CITY - About 200 soldiers and police engaged in a five-hour battle with gunmen in northern Mexico on Wednesday, killing two suspected hitmen amid rising violence in Mexico's war on drug traffickers. After receiving a tip, police and troops circled a heavily armed group of gunmen in 12 SUVs near the sleepy town of Imuris, in Sonora state near Arizona, local officials said. At least one policeman was wounded in the shootout. Most of the gunmen escaped. "They are still looking for them with helicopters," Imuris Mayor Carlos Gallego told Reuters. About 20 to 30 men were in the...

A friend of mine, who has been a life-long democrat, said that she is wavering with Obama. And she is uncertain about the Clinton's support of Obama. What follows, is my response to her. Wellllllll, the Clintons and Obama didn't exactly get along during the primaries...if you know what I mean. :) I don't think one 'raw-raw' party night would change their bruised feelings, esp. if she was never even considered for the veep slot...(you can put lipstick on a....yada yada yada)... It is kinda fun though from my perspective to be able to whole-heartedly root for the Clintons in...

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia: THE documentary on Bolivian state television opens with grainy images of leaders of the Ustashe, the fascist movement that ruled Croatia during World War II. The movie, part of a propaganda campaign against one of President Evo Morales's most vocal critics, then shows black-and-white photos of emaciated victims in concentration camps, followed by the question, "Who is Branko Gora Marinkovic Jovicevic?" Tapping a pack of Camel Lights on his desk, Branko Marinkovic, the 41-year-old scion of a cooking oil and cattle ranching empire, is understandably displeased at being associated with Nazis who fled to South America. After...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline)-National Guardsman and reservists should not suffer financially because they are deployed overseas, Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon said Thursday. Citizen soldiers who leave state service to serve their country should continue to receive their full salaries, said Nixon, who is running for governor in November against Republican Kenny Hulshof.

Rod Dreher, a self described "crunchy con" blogger has, over the last week or so, become a wildly ardent critic of Sarah Palin, actually going on morning tv and Larry King, who used him to demonstrate conservatives think Palin's unfit to serve... Slipped over the edge and revealed his own lack of belief in democracy for anyone but himself as well... He's calling for "an acceptable dictator" apparently be installed and then we leave Afghanistan, on his blog at beliefnet. With friends like this, conservatives don't need enemies. Other wacky statements like "Well, look, I can read the newspaper, and...

A NEW study claims no more than 25,000 people were killed in the massive Allied bombing of Dresden in the Second World War – far fewer than many scholars have believed. Four years of research being carried out by a team of historians and academics has cast doubt on previous claims that up to 135,000 may have lost their lives in the eastern German city over two days in 1945. The bombing of Dresden became arugably the most controversial operation carried out by British and US forces during the Second World War as it involved creating firestorms by dropping incendiary...

Those who believe Barack Obama would avoid wars after withdrawing from Iraq are not paying attention. He has laid out a coherent strategy for fighting wars. After the July, 2007 CNN-You Tube debate, Barack Obama was pilloried for his agreement to "talk without preconditions to leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea." All of this sounds like typical dove rhetoric. But Obama, in August, 2007 promised to relocate war, not end it. Islamists in the summer of 2007 were rioting in the streets to bring down Musharraf. Pakistan's corrupt democrats demanded a snout in the trough. Obama chose...

In her third TV interview, Gov. Sarah Palin raises eyebrows with some of her comments.

Although the conventional narrative about the Iraq war is wrong, its persistence has contributed to the most serious crisis in civil-military relations since the Civil War. According to Mr. Woodward's account, the uniformed military not only opposed the surge, insisting that their advice be followed; it then subsequently worked to undermine the president once he decided on another strategy. In one respect, the actions taken by military opponents of the surge, e.g. "foot-dragging," "slow-rolling" and selective leaking are, unfortunately, all-too-characteristic of U.S. civil-military relations during the last decade and a half. But the picture Mr. Woodward draws is far more...

The U.S. – Pakistan relationship is in crisis. Tensions continue to mount between the Bush Administration and a fractured Pakistani government over violations of Pakistan’s sovereignty by American military forces, and Pakistan’s commitment to the war on terror is growing more tenuous by the day. Because Pakistan either cannot or will not secure its side of the border with Afghanistan, the United States has increasingly felt compelled to act. There is some justification for U.S. actions. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines sovereignty as “supreme authority within a territory.” In no way, shape, or form does the Pakistani government have...

Cobham is preparing to demonstrate what it believes will be the first in-flight docking of two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as it continues development of its autonomous aerial refueling system.Two specially designed UAVs – one a tanker, one a receiver – are being readied for flight-tests in restricted airspace at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., within the next month, Cobham says. One of the six-foot wingspan UAVs is equipped with an extendable refueling boom with drogue, or basket, and the other with a retractable probe. The two vehicles have been flown separately to check their flying qualities.Week-long trialThe week-long trial...

The well-known WII museum of Normandy, France, authorized within its walls a conference organized by the extremists who pretend 911 was an inside job. Held on September 16, 2008, the conference features several commentators, from the one attributing the 911 attacks to the neocons to the one saying it was the jews. The "Memorial de Caen" was built to commemorate the millions of Allies who landed in France in 1944 to liberate the country.

Excerpt.......In 1982-'83, as a rookie in Congress, John McCain publicly opposed President Reagan sending U.S. forces to Beirut. Shortly thereafter, Hezbollah destroyed their barracks, killing more than 240 Marines. Reagan withdrew from Lebanon and McCain, to his dismay, was proven right. In the early 1990s, McCain stood alone against isolationist Republicans and implored President Clinton to intervene to stop ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo. Years later, with McCain's lonely support, Clinton finally took the advice and brought stability to the Balkans. During the 2000 Republican primaries, McCain spoke about "rogue state rollback," and warned of upcoming belligerency from autocratic...

THE way Barack Obama talks of Iraq, you'd think the whole county is a sea of fire and blood, created by the United States. So he might be surprised to learn that tour operators in Europe and the Middle East are touting this "sea of fire and blood" as a new holiday destination. One program just put on the market by Terre Entiere, a leading French tour operator, offers a "Christmas Pilgrimage" in December to Iraq's biblical sites, some of which date back more than 2,000 years. Another program starts in January. Called "Forgotten History," it includes visits to some...

In the late 1990s, a crisis began to develop in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Over the years, Albanians had moved into the province in a broad migration. By 1997, the province was overwhelmingly Albanian, although it had not only been historically part of Serbia but also its historical foundation. Nevertheless, the Albanians showed significant intentions of moving toward either a separate state or unification with Albania. Serbia moved to resist this, increasing its military forces and indicating an intention to crush the Albanian resistance. There were many claims that the Serbians were repeating the crimes against humanity that were...

In the final analysis, everything else takes a back seat. From the media obsession with Senator McCain’s lack of web browsing accumen to the far more serious (now largely ignored) matter of Senator Obama’s relationship with an unapologetic known terrorist (William Ayers), it is absolutely essential - i.e., a matter of life and death - to be as clear as humanly possible about what the central issue of this election is. First and foremost, America must decide which candidate is going to be serious enough to behave as an adult in prosecuting the ongoing war against Islamo-facist terrorists. Period. An...

BRUSSELS, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Georgia will keep pledges to field troops in Western peacekeeping missions in Afghanistan and Iraq despite Russia's crushing of its military during the South Ossetia war, a top official said on Wednesday. "We will still keep our commitments to have our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is very important to our country," Georgian national parliament chairman David Bakradze told a news conference in Brussels. "We hope our allies and other friendly countries will help us to recover our infrastructure," he added. Georgia withdrew all of its 2,000 soldiers in Iraq last month after the...

The West Begins to Doubt Georgian Leader Five weeks after the war in the Caucasus the mood is shifting against Georgian President Saakashvili. Some Western intelligence reports have undermined Tbilisi's version of events and there are now calls on both sides of the Atlantic for an independent investigation. But now, five weeks after the end of the war in the Caucasus, the winds have shifted in America. Even Washington is beginning to suspect that Saakashvili, a friend and ally, could in fact be a gambler -- someone who triggered the bloody five-day war and then told the West bold-faced lies....

A controversial film titled, "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West," arrived last weekend in newspapers in major cities in Florida and North Carolina — two key electoral swing states that could decide the 2008 presidential contest between Republican candidate John McCain and his Democratic rival Barack Obama. The 60-minute DVD, bundled into Sunday editions, is drawing complaints from Muslims and prompting some soul-searching among journalists over their responsibilities to protecting free speech. The film itself is not new — it was made in 2005 and has been broadcast on Fox News channel, which has prompted at least one columnist,...

Georgia produced telephone intercepts on Tuesday it said proved Russian armour entered Georgia hours before the start of a Georgian attack that Moscow said forced it to send in its troops. The release of the intercepts comes as both Moscow and Tbilisi wage a diplomatic and public relations campaign to prove the other side fired the first shot in a war that killed hundreds of people and caused widespread devastation. Russia said the evidence was "not serious". The force movements referred to in the intercepts may, it said, have been a routine rotation by Russian peacekeeping forces already operating in...

Georgia has released intercepted telephone calls purporting to show that part of a Russian armored regiment crossed into the separatist enclave of South Ossetia nearly a full day before Georgia’s attack on the capital, Tskhinvali, late on Aug. 7. ... The back and forth over who started the war is already an issue in the American presidential race, with Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the Republican vice presidential candidate, contending that Russia’s incursion into Georgia was “unprovoked,” while others argue that Georgia’s shelling of Tskhinvali was provocation. Georgia claims that its main evidence — two of several calls secretly recorded...

In his new history of humanitarian intervention, Gary Bass attempts to construct a model for international action today. Easier said than done, writes Matthew Price. Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention Gary J Bass Knopf DH128 There are few more loaded phrases than “humanitarian intervention”. At once too broad and too narrow, it lends itself perfectly to empty sloganeering, and worse. After all, Vladimir Putin defended the invasion of Georgia partly on humanitarian grounds – to defend ethnic Ossetians – even if much of the world saw things differently. But Putin invoked the same kind of language Nato used...

NPR has learned that the raid by helicopter-borne U.S. Special Operations forces in Pakistan last week was not an isolated incident but part of a three-phase plan, approved by President Bush, to strike at Osama bin Laden and top al-Qaida leadership. The plan calls for a much more aggressive military campaign, said one source, familiar with the presidential order, which gives the green light for the military to take part in the operations. The plan represents an 11th-hour effort to hammer al-Qaida until the Bush administration leaves office, two government officials told NPR. "Definitely, the gloves have come off," said...

Less than a month after active combat came to an end, and with the last few Russian soldiers on Georgian territory about to make a pullout, the Russian Army has launched a gruesome exhibition in Moscow, displaying war trophies from last month’s conflict. ... There are English language textbooks, including a bulky tome entitled “American Language Course, Level IV,” which is placed with the identity card of a Georgian soldier, who presumably died during the attack on Tskhinvali. All throughout, the display attempts to show the connections between the Georgian and the U.S. armies – it is possible that the...

MEXICO CITY – A gruesome crime wave is shaking Mexico to its core, with children murdered, headless bodies left in piles and ordinary Mexicans losing the little faith they have in the police and government. While violent crime has long been rampant in Mexico, a spate of recent killings have gone beyond anything seen before as drug smugglers slaughter rivals and common criminals, often helped by corrupt police, turn more brutal. Hitmen from the Gulf cartel drug gang left a pile of 11 headless corpses piled up near the city of Merida and police say the victims were likely still...

NEVER FORGET Posted by Andrew Roman on Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:20:12 AM Two days ago, I posted an opinion piece here called, “September 11th – The Reason.” It was, I felt, an important article to write – one that I had hoped would tap into some of the profoundly deep emotions that still fester in me (and, as I have come to discover, so many others) surrounding the terrorist attacks that took place seven years ago today. Many of you were kind of enough to take a few moments to read it, and I am most appreciative. In it,...

Obama-hosted posting agrees with Islamic Supremacists that America is the “Great Satan” The Obama campaign, under pressure from exposure at The Husaria: For Our Freedom and Yours and Free Republic finally deleted Marilyn Wright's "Fire Bill and Hillary," which expresses a wish for Bill and Hillary Clinton to be lynched and shot, wishes for Bill Clinton to die from a heart attack, and calls Bill Clinton "white trash." We have provided the Google cache link so our readers can see this sideshow freak for themselves--on a site "Paid For by Obama for America." Contrary to the disclaimer, "Content on blogs...

At the risk of sounding agonizingly trite, let me take a moment to say that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is a colossal jackass. He is, too, a liar and an undisciplined dullard. (The extraordinarily obvious is sometimes more beneficial than the simply obvious). Mind you, his opinions in and of themselves alone don't prompt me to this conclusion. Rather, it is his vile and disgraceful tendency to resort to disgusting personal attacks, unsubstantiated falsehoods, and a lack of professionalism that too often has him emoting like a pre-pubescent, foot-stomping little girl demanding a replacement light bulb for her E-Z Bake oven....

Russia has conditionally agreed to remove its forces from Georgian land - excluding Abkhazia and South Ossetia - by the second week of October. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the pull-out would happen once 200 EU monitors deployed to South Ossetia. Speaking after meeting French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Mr Medvedev said the withdrawal was dependent on guarantees that Georgia would not use force again. But he made no mention of withdrawing troops from South Ossetia or Abkhazia. And he defended Russia's controversial decision to recognise the independence of both breakaway regions, saying the move was "irrevocable". Criticism of US Among...

Last week, just before Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) big speech, Tim Cavanaugh and I attended a small fundraiser for Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee Wayne Allyn Root. The chatty Vegas sports bettor, memorably profiled by David Weigel two months back, was in a mind to talk about a fellow classmate of his at Columbia University back in the early 1980s, a guy by the name of Barack Obama. Root is no fan of the Democratic nominee: "A vote for Obama is four years of Karl Marx, and no one should be happy about that," he told us and a few...

Iran’s Fantasy: A Renewed Cold War between the Infidels Russia and America Walid Phares September 1st 2008 The post-Soviet world has never been closer to what we knew as the Cold War than right now. Iran is pleased. We should all be concerned. New proxy conflicts may soon emerge.The starkest reminder of the new chill came after Russian forces recently executed a military operation inside South Ossetia in Georgia. Ostensibly, the Georgian incursion was to bring back constitutional order. But Russia’s massive reaction has their forces entrenched just miles away from Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital. Recent statements by Russian and Western...

Russia's bait and switch plan using South Ossetia militiamen to goad the Georgian Army into an ill-advised attack and then ride to the rescue of its newly minted Russian citizens, was a masterful operation using all of the tools in the combined arms and services toolbox.  And while there will be no new Cold War, the Russian offensive into Georgia has revealed that despite our individual unit superiority, our military is no longer the global hyper-power as touted by the Pentagon's PR machine.  Russia went into Georgia to accomplish its regional goals simply because Putin realized that a weakened West...

How has Moslem opinion and support of Terrorism changed since the WOT began? I ask this question because I think it has the greatest bearing on whether we are winning or not. Let me explain, I remember Rumsfeld saying at the beginning of the war in Iraq that we needed better metrics in order to find a better strategy in Iraq, which we were losing at the time, he never did find them. It was eventually Gen. Petreus that developed the winning strategy, but a strategy that’s working in one theater of the War, doesn’t answer the real question of...

ANKARA -- At the moment, 60 percent of Turkey's natural gas and about half of its crude oil demand are supplied by Russia. The report said that any possible disturbance in crude oil needs to be supplied from other countries and the international spot market, however, a similar solution for a natural gas crisis is not available. Turkey has threatened to retaliate against new Russian import controls that are seen as an attempt to punish Turkey for allowing U.S. warships carrying aid to Georgia to pass through the Turkish straits, which connect the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. Experts do...

Washington, D.C. - At a conference in Washington, D.C., this week, a Department of Defense official sounded a startling alarm. "The defense community is critically reliant on a technology that obsoletes itself every 18 months, is made in unsecure locations and over which we have absolutely no market share influence," said Ted J. Glum, director of the DoD's Defense Microelectronics Activity unit. "Other than that," he cracked, "we're good."

n injured paratrooper flown home from Afghanistan had to sleep in his car overnight after a hotel refused him a room because he was a serving soldier. Corporal Tomos Stringer, 23, had booked to stay at the Metro Hotel, in Woking, Surrey, while helping organise the funeral of a friend killed in action. On arrival, reception desk staff asked him for identification and he handed them his military pass. Corporal Stringer, who was not dressed in uniform at the time, was astonished when they turned him away, claiming it was not company policy to allow Armed Forces personnel to stay...

An escalating turf fight between warring drug cartels in Mexico is spreading into the United States with federal officials warning that deadly shootouts and ambushes along the southwestern border pose a serious threat to both U.S. law enforcement and American citizens, according to a confidential multi-agency government report. The Aug. 29 report predicts a rise in the use of "deadly force" against U.S. police officials, first responders and residents along the border, and further spillage of drug-gang violence deeper into the United States. Written by the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center (AcTIC) and the High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Investigative...

Christopher S. Smith, a U.S. Army veteran who was injured in Afghanistan in 2006, died unexpectedly Thursday, Aug. 28, and will be buried with full military honors. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2 at the Belton-Stroup Funeral Home, 422 E. Dayton-Yellow Springs Road in Fairborn. The funeral service will be there at 10 a.m. Wednesday, with burial in Byron Cemetery.

TBILISI, Georgia — Just weeks after Georgia’s military collapsed in panic in the face of the Russian Army, its leaders hope to rebuild and train its armed forces as if another war with Russia is almost inevitable. Georgia is already drawing up lists of options, including restoring the military to its prewar strength or making it a much larger force with more modern equipment, like air-defense systems, modern antiarmor rockets and night-vision devices. Officials at the Pentagon, State Department and White House confirmed that the Bush administration was examining what would be required to rebuild Georgia’s military, but stressed that...

[Excerpt]....“So fast forward to early August. You have a town, Tskhinvali, which is Ossetian, and a bunch of Georgian villages surrounding it in a crescent shape. There are peacekeepers there. Both Russian peacekeepers and Georgian peacekeepers under a 1994 accord. The Ossetians were dug in in the town, and the Georgians were in the forests and the fields between the town and the villages. The Ossetians start provoking and provoking and provoking by shelling Georgian positions and Georgian villages around there. And it's a classic tit for tat thing. You shell, I shell back. The Georgians offered repeated ceasefires, which...

MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Black Sea Fleet is capable of destroying NATO's naval strike group currently deployed in the sea within 20 minutes, a former fleet commander said on Friday. Russia's General Staff said on Tuesday there were 10 NATO ships in the Black Sea - three U.S. warships, the Polish frigate General Pulaski, the German frigate FGS Lubeck, and the Spanish guided missile frigate Admiral Juan de Borbon, as well as four Turkish vessels. Eight more warships are expected to join the group. "Despite the apparent strength, the NATO naval group in the Black Sea is...

Tony Halpin in Moscow The Kremlin moved swiftly to tighten its grip on Georgia’s breakaway regions yesterday as South Ossetia announced that it would soon become part of Russia, which will open military bases in the province under an agreement to be signed on Tuesday. Tarzan Kokoity, the province’s Deputy Speaker of parliament, announced that South Ossetia would be absorbed into Russia soon so that its people could live in “one united Russian state” with their ethnic kin in North Ossetia.

Spiegel: OSCE observers fault Georgians in conflict Europe News Aug 30, 2008, 9:52 GMT Hamburg - European observers have faulted Georgia in this month's Caucasus conflict, saying it made elaborate plans to seize South Ossetia, according to the German news magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday. In a report to appear in its Monday edition, it said officials of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) had said acts by the Georgian government had contributed to the outbreak of the crisis with Russia. Spiegel said OSCE military observers in the Caucasus had described preparations by Georgia to move into...