This is how depraved the enemy is in Iraq: Maj. Gen. Michael Barbero, deputy director for regional operations on the Joint Staff, said Tuesday that a vehicle used in the attack was waved through a U.S. military checkpoint because two children were visible in the back seat. He said this was the first reported use…

Here is some more good news as the Senate sets a deadline for withdrawal: U.S. troops killed five insurgents and destroyed a bomb-making factory Wednesday north of Baghdad, and dozens more were detained after fierce clashes in a Sunni-dominated province west of the capital. […] U.S. forces killed five suspected insurgents, detained three others and…

The Sunni tribesmen in the Anbar province continue to fight al-Qaeda: The Al-bu Issa tribes in Amiriyat al-Fallujah, backed by local police and the MNF, clashed today with members of the al-Qaeda linked “Islamic State in Iraq” terror organization, according to al-Hurra TV. The tribe involved in the clashes has opposed al-Qaeda for months now…

It’s absolutely amazing to me that the Democrat leadership in the House is putting this much pressure on their members and creating this much bad feeling over a bill that will not see the light of day. It will probably never get through the Senate and won’t be signed into law. If it will even…

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