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The number of American troops and Iraqi civilians killed in the war fell in September to levels not seen in more than a year. The U.S. military said the lower count was at least partly a result of new strategies and 30,000 additional U.S. forces deployed this year.

Although it is difficult to draw conclusions from a single month's tally, the figures could suggest U.S.-led forces are making headway against extremist factions and disrupting their ability to strike back.

The U.S. military toll for September was 65, the lowest since July 2006, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press from death announcements by the American command and Pentagon.

More dramatic, however, was the decline in Iraqi civilian, police and military deaths. The figure was 988 in September — 50 percent lower than the previous month and the lowest tally since June 2006, when 847 Iraqis died.

Meanwhile the US Political arm of al-queda has concocted a plan of an Iraq surtax to be added to US citizens income taxes. Color me unsurprised.

Rep. Obey said the annual cost for the war — $145 billion — could be paid by a tax that would range from 2 percent for low and middle income folks to 12-15 percent for higher income households

The DNC response to the report:

Suzie Madrak, an angry Pennsylvania blogger, who pens Suburban Guerrilla has developed the cure for world peace, global warming and her own pathological anger. Well, maybe not, but she has found a way to create a nanny-state scheme.

What Madrak is organizing, instead, is very different: a kind of grass-roots insurance pool to pay for health emergencies of progressive bloggers -- people without whom, she says, Democrats would not enjoy the political success they're now seeing.

Does this mean I'm eligible for this 'insurance' - after all - I am registered as a Democrat. What about conservative bloggers, libertarian bloggers, green bloggers or non-political bloggers? Are their health needs not as worthwhile as 'progressive' bloggers.

Republicans have no need of this scheme, as SuzieQ describes them as:

Madrak, who calls Capozzola her "fairy blogfather," argues that if he'd been a Republican, Capozzola would be alive today. "He would have been in a well-paid think tank job, living the high life (He did, after all, have a masters degree in foreign policy,) - Most importantly, he would have had health insurance for the past six years."

Well paying career - fabulous social life....hmmm...looks like Republicans are having all the fun! Maybe I should switch my registration.

Then again, maybe I won't, as SuziQ further explains her glorious idea - it seemed to get a bit fuzzy in the details:

Bad behavior breeds bad behavior. Who says Democrats don't act like communists?

Today I received an email from the organization Vets for Freedom detailing their grass root effort called '10 Weeks to Testimony'

Veterans from across the country will gather in DC this Tuesday, July 17th, in order to meet with a number of senators to discuss the importance of their support of the Iraq war strategy - better known as The Surge.

They are asking for the senators to consider these three commonsense approaches to victory in the War on Terror.

1. General Petraeus deserves enough time to implement a winning counter-insurgency strategy in Iraq.
2. Retreat means a failed state in Iraq and a safe haven for Al Qaeda to plan future attacks against America and her allies.
   
3. Decisions about Iraq should be made by military commanders and generals on the ground-not politicians in Washington, DC.

This is a noble effort made by those who put everything on the line to protect our precious freedom. Ironically, they now have returned home from duty only to find their fight is not yet over. The only thing that's becoming clearer by the day is that America's main opponent in Iraq is really in Washington DC.

Those of us who support Winning in Iraq can reinforce this message by taking a few minutes out of your day tomorrow to contact your home state Senators to express your support of the Surge and the Vets on the Hill.

Today was the Democratic Primary election for the upcoming Mayoral race. Today, I had to hold my nose as I voted. For the first time, I had the idea of skipping out on this vote as I have no intention of supporting any Democrat candidate for any office. EVER.

My objections to abstaining from this vote were over-ruled with Mom's visit. She stopped by stating we were going to vote. As I explained my plans for skipping this primary election, Mom was quick to remind me of our cousin lying in Arlington Cemetery who gave his life to preserve this opportunity. (Score 1 - Mom) I responded by reminding her that the party we both belong to is actively trying to demean and politicize Toz's sacrifice in order to assure a victory for terrorists in Iraq. (Score 1 - Skye) Mom responded with 'The Look' - twenty minutes later we were arrived at our local voting poll.

I voted NO to the question of bringing the troops home now and cast my vote to Jesus White , in hopes he will be the next mayor of Philadelphia.

Mara Liasson: "We all make mistakes..." Roll Call 05/09/2007

"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed - Senator Obama"

“I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.- Hanoi John”

WASHINGTON, May 3 — Senator Clinton proposed Thursday that Congress repeal the authority it gave President Bush in 2002 to successfully liberate Iraq...Mrs. Clinton’s proposal brings her full circle on Iraq — she supported the war measure five years ago

"Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have completed a study that puts the death toll in Iraq, since our 2003 invasion, at about 600,000."

Shamelessly copied from Flopping Aces.

So much for three equal branches of Government:

Nimrod Pelosi thinks she is not only a United States Ambassador who conducts foreign policy she also now believes herself to be the President of the United States. If the real President doesn't do what she wants she is gonna sue!

Listen, if you want to stop the war vote to pull the funding. If you can't do it then STFU!

Is this part of the Change for America that Democrats sold the American public this past November? John Gibson gives us the low down:

Feminists like Barbara Boxer want it both ways. They want abortion rights, they want women to have access to the workplace, but if the woman takes that freedom, does not marry, does not have children, evidently Boxer thinks that woman is unqualified to use her education, experience and judgment in her career.

Now, according to Boxer, that woman has to have children to have her career. Sound confusing? Sure is. It is Boxer logic that only applies to one woman: a single, conservative black woman who happens to be secretary of state.

Boxer wouldn't say to anybody else, you have to have kids to hold your job. She wouldn't dream of saying that to a CEO or to a sales manager. But she thinks it's OK to say it to a secretary of state because this particular woman secretary of state has supported a decision to go to war. Only when it comes to a conservative black woman would Boxer think to ask that question.

A black woman should be a liberal. A black woman should have voted for Boxer and voted against Bush, and a black woman should be opposed to the war. If this black woman is none of those things then there is something wrong with her. What could it be?

Oh, she hasn't been married, nor does she have children.
If I had said what Boxer said about a black woman secretary of state in a Democratic administration I'd have a pack of libs calling for my head.

All I want is an apology. Cough it up, Senator.

Senator Boxer needs to resign then apologize to Condi.

Is Boxer upset that she can't use the DNC's pet mantra of calling for Republican politicians to send their children to the frontlines of Iraq on Condi? This latest debacle by a Democrat raises questions that need to be addressed - publicly. Is there a level of racism and sexism that Democrats won't cross to score political points? Is this an example of the 'Big Tent' Party's tolerance towards racial minorities and women who have differing points of view? How can any sane woman support the DNC? Finally, how much damage to the credibility of feminists worldwide will the DNC inflict before being voted out of power in 2008?

I know I'm going to be repeating this over and over the next two years:

DON'T BLAME ME - I VOTED REPUBLICAN!

UPDATE: BOXHEAD RESPONDS TO CRITICS:

Boxer, defending herself against critics from the right, said Friday that she was "speaking truth to power" at a Senate hearing Thursday when she confronted the secretary of state -- who is unmarried and childless -- noting that neither she nor Rice will "pay a price" personally for sending more American troops to war

*Reaches for TUMS*


This makes sane Democrat women cringe....


When my colleagues elect me as speaker on Jan. 4, we will not just break through a glass ceiling, we will break through a marble ceiling," said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who is set to lead the House when the Democrats take over Thursday.


"In more than 200 years of history, there was an established pecking order _ and I cut in line."

Sane female Democrats and sister feminists worldwide should be disgusted by the recent remarks of the newly minted Speaker of the House. This past Wednesday, at a tea party to honor Pelosi and the late former Texas governor Ann Richards, Pelosi noted:

“ In more than 200 years of history, there was an established pecking order _ and I cut in line."

Instead of acknowledging the years of work, which culminated in her nomination and selection as the first female Speaker of the House, Pelosi slaps the face of every woman worldwide by crowing that her success was due to her fortuitous ‘cut in line’ of the established system.

For centuries, women have been slowly and steadily working to improve the condition of their gender. History records the bold actions of only few of these women – the real brunt of change fell on the shoulders of countless anonymous women who quietly labored to raise the credibility of women working in fields that were culturally considered a male domain. These remarkable women boldly entered into male dominated arenas and used their intelligence, talent and tenacity to revolutionize the perception of women working in these fields. This was no easy task, and it was achieved through decades of hard work, skill and determination– none of these women ‘cut in line’ to circumvent the system. THEY WORKED TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM.

Pelosi’s comment in anticipation of being selected as the first female Speaker of the House, invalidates the hard won achievements of women today and in bygone eras. The contribution of these women, these true feminists, has afforded Pelosi and myself the freedom to pursue an education and career of our own making. Her comment confirms that her desire to become Speaker of the House stems from her own ambition to be the first female Speaker – regardless if she is the most capable person for the job. In past centuries, women broke barriers because they were the best person for the job, and they just happened to be female. . Today, the Speaker of the House, by her own example, encourages women to sidestep ‘the system’ to get what they want.

Al Qaeda has sent a message to leaders of the Democratic party that credit for the defeat of congressional Republicans belongs to the terrorists.

In a portion of the tape from al Qaeda No. 2 man, Ayman al Zawahri, made available only today, Zawahri says he has two messages for American Democrats.

"The first is that you aren't the ones who won the midterm elections, nor are the Republicans the ones who lost. Rather, the Mujahideen -- the Muslim Ummah's vanguard in Afghanistan and Iraq -- are the ones who won, and the American forces and their Crusader allies are the ones who lost," Zawahri said, according to a full transcript obtained by ABC News.

Makes one ashamed to claim membership to the DNC. At this rate, it won't come as too much of a surprise to witness zawahiri nominated by the DNC as Hillary's running mate in the 08 presidential election.

Why you can't blame me...I voted Republican!

He couldn’t have been more wrong.

Reyes stumbled when I asked him a simple question about al Qaeda at the end of a 40-minute interview in his office last week. Members of the Intelligence Committee, mind you, are paid $165,200 a year to know more than basic facts about our foes in the Middle East.
We warmed up with a long discussion about intelligence issues and Iraq. And then we veered into terrorism’s major players.

To me, it’s like asking about Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland: Who’s on what side?

The dialogue went like this:

Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia?

“Al Qaeda, they have both,” Reyes said. “You’re talking about predominately?”

“Sure,” I said, not knowing what else to say.

“Predominantly — probably Shiite,” he ventured.

He couldn’t have been more wrong.

Al Qaeda is profoundly Sunni. If a Shiite showed up at an al Qaeda club house, they’d slice off his head and use it for a soccer ball.

That’s because the extremist Sunnis who make up a l Qaeda consider all Shiites to be heretics.

Al Qaeda’s Sunni roots account for its very existence. Osama bin Laden and his followers believe the Saudi Royal family besmirched the true faith through their corruption and alliance with the United States, particularly allowing U.S. troops on Saudi soil.
It’s been five years since these Muslim extremists flew hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center.

Is it too much to ask that our intelligence overseers know who they are?

H/T: Mikes America

Democrats, like the Cylons, Have A Plan.....

Peace Corp
World Teach
City Year
Pueblo Ingles
Philadelphia Cares
Mayor's Commission on Literacy
Global Volunteers
Child Family Health Intitiative

Islamofascists worldwide are happy to have the support and solidarity of the DNC. What has happened to the party of Truman, Shoop Jackson and Roosevelt? There is only one course of action for loyal democrats to break this association with islamofascists: VOTE REPUBLICAN

JERUSALEM – Everybody has an opinion about next Tuesday's midterm congressional election in the U.S. – including senior terrorist leaders interviewed by WND who say they hope Americans sweep the Democrats into power because of the party's position on withdrawing from Iraq, a move, as they see it, that ensures victory for the worldwide Islamic resistance.

"Of course Americans should vote Democrat," Jihad Jaara, a senior member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group and the infamous leader of the 2002 siege of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, told WND.

This is why American Muslims will support the Democrats, because there is an atmosphere in America that encourages those who want to withdraw from Iraq. It is time that the American people support those who want to take them out of this Iraqi mud," said Jaara, speaking to WND from exile in Ireland, where he was sent as part of an internationally brokered deal that ended the church siege.

Jaara was the chief in Bethlehem of the Brigades, the declared "military wing" of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party.

Muhammad Saadi, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, said the Democrats' talk of withdrawal from Iraq makes him feel "proud."

The junior MA senator and failed democratic presidential nominee, John Kerry, publicly admits what every liberal democrat privately believes to be true about the US military. This is a text-book example of how well they support and love our troops.

If the truth regarding the high quality of our military recruits is what your seek - surf on over to this report

Pictures curtesy of USNA, USMA, & USAFA

Denenberg: How Terrorists Should Vote, And Why..

If you are a terrorist, you should definitely vote the straight Democratic ticket in the upcoming election. Now, I know that is not politically correct to say, but it does happen to be true virtually beyond contradiction. Just consider the overarching issue of this election and of our times - the war against Islamic/fascist/Nazi/terrorism. There is little doubt that the Democratic Party would not fight a robust, aggressive, successful war against the threat to our country and civilization. Some Democratic leaders, such as John Murtha, have made it clear that they want to cut and run right out of Iraq. They are not alone.

Other Democrats have not been quite as precise in making their recommendations, but they virtually all come down to some variation of cut and run, retreat, surrender, accept defeat, a timetable for withdrawal, or however you want to characterize it. No matter what synonyms are used, the Democratic prescription is one for catastrophe, not only for Iraq, but also for the rest of the world. If terrorists can find a happy hunting ground in Iraq, with its oil, water and other resources, they will destabilize the whole region and pose a threat to the whole world.

We can no longer hide behind our oceans, and be endangered by every fanatic and terrorist with or without a nuclear weapon or other WMDs. Like it or not, 9/11 happened and may happen again and may happen even many times.

The Democrats do not have the stomach for a fight, and their rhetoric encourages our enemies and strengthens their theories, their tactics and their strategies.

Read the rest HERE

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