I’ll probably get slugged for this but:Â A warrior’s voice: Webb’s son blogs
Richmond Times-Dispatch
A Marine Corps veteran of Vietnam, Webb has been loath to talk about Jimmy. He has said he didn’t want to politicize his son’s service. On the campaign trail, Webb wore his son’s combat boots.
God bless Jimmy and all of our troops.Â
‘No Victory to Be Had in Iraq,’ Democrats Say
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
CNSNews.com) - “In Iraq, there is no victory to be had in an enterprise that has been ill-fated from the start,” the nation’s oldest senator said on Tuesday.
Driving While Defeatist
By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
Members of the 110th Congress are behaving like drunken drivers with respect to the conflict in Iraq, veering wildly all over the road, seemingly oblivious to the risk they pose to others. Before they do actual harm by voting on various resolutions aimed at repudiating President Bush and further undermining his wartime leadership, they should be obliged to sit through the sort of sobering, behavior-modification program to which courts assign those found operating heavy equipment while inebriated.
Aquarius sunset
By Cal Thomas
As with the Vietnam anti-war protests, several of the same Hollywood actors spoke against the effort to make Iraq a stable and independent nation. Hollywood is the land of make-believe where love means never having to say you’re sorry and acting means never having to take responsibility for your words and behavior, which are written and directed by others. These stars live behind gates with security alarms and guards who protect their privileged lives.
H/T to The Right Wing Liberal for: Why we cannot leave Iraq before 2010 - at the earliest
Thus, any politician who talks about America leaving Iraq before early 2010 (when the new government is formed) is, in my view, dangerously wrong - and that goes for the Administration and its supporters as well as for the Democrats and the Wobblies. We cannot achieve freedom for Iraqis and victory for America unless and until we kick the Wahhabists, the Saddamists, and the Khomeinists out of Iraq.
Kat asks (and we agree) Why don’t we let them decide? Â
After all, they’re the ones over there doing the job; why don’t we listen to what our troops are saying about “redeploying” or “a formula that will in short order allow our combat forces to leave Iraq.
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Words from Hillary ‘07 don’t match Hillary ‘03
On tape, Clinton says war vote based on intel, now says she was ‘deceived’
WorldNetDaily.com
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton Hillary has told an Iowa audience that she was deceived on the congressional vote to take military action against Saddam Hussein in Iraq, contradicting an earlier video recording in which she testifies that her decision was made based on her own information and intelligence.
2003: “I ended up voting for the resolution after carefully reviewing the information, intelligence that I had available, talking with people whose opinions I trusted, tried to discount the political or other factors that I didn’t believe should be in any way a part of this decision,” she said.
2007:Â “So he took the authority that I and others gave him and he 
misused it, and I regret that deeply. And if we had known then what we know now, there never would have been a vote and I never would have voted to give this president that authority.”
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Speaking of books. here’s an old one, but a good one:
Book Report
Students were assigned to read two books, “Titanic” and “My Life”,
by Bill Clinton.
One smart-ass student turned in the following book report, with the proposition that they were nearly identical stories. His professor had a sense of humor and gave the student an A+ for his report:
Titanic: $29.99
Clinton: $29.99
Titanic: Over three hours to read
Clinton: Over three hours to read
Titanic: The story of Jack and Rose, their forbidden love, and
subsequent catastrophe.
Clinton: The story of Bill and Monica, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe.
Titanic: Jack is a starving artist.
Clinton: Bill is a bull$#%& artist.
Titanic: In one scene, Jack enjoys a good cigar.
Clinton: Ditto for Bill.
Titanic: During ordeal, Rose’s dress gets ruined.
Clinton: Ditto for Monica.
Titanic: Jack teaches Rose to spit.
Clinton: Let’s not go there.
Titanic: Rose gets to keep her jewelry.
Clinton: Monica is forced to return her gifts.
Titanic: Rose remembers Jack for the rest of her life.
Clinton: Clinton doesn’t remember jack.
Titanic: Rose goes down on a vessel full of seamen.
Clinton: Monica… ooh, let’s not go there either.
Titanic: Jack surrenders to an icy death.
Clinton: Bill goes home to Hillary… basically the same thing.
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H/T to Jerry at From on High for: Our Future Commander in Chief
Hillary wants George W. Bush to solve all the problems before she’s sworn into office.
Then why, Madame Presumptive Heir Apparent, would we need YOU?
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Speaking of wanting to run, Richmond.com has this:
Gilmore for President
Jim Gilmore threw his hat in the ring in early January.
It’s been more than six years since former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore held a publicly-elected office, but on Jan. 9 he filed papers with the Federal Election Commission, formally announcing his candidacy for U.S. president.
Since his announcement, critics in the political blogosphere have been asking, “Jim who?”
Okay, we admit, we didn’t watch it. More on the reason why in just a minute.