Iraqi election commission bans 500 candidates
Iraq’s election commission has barred almost 500 candidates from running in national elections on 7 March.
A committee that vets candidates says some of those banned had ties to the outlawed Baath party, once led by Saddam Hussein.
Those barred are believed to include prominent Sunni Arab politicians. The formal list of […]

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Sex sting in Poconos nets former chief U.N. weapons inspector | PoconoRecord.com
A former chief United Nations weapons inspector is accused of contacting what he thought was a 15-year-old girl in an Internet chat room, engaging in a sexual conversation and showing himself masturbating on a Web camera.
…The online conversation occurred in February 2009…
Glenn Reynolds asks:
So […]

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Unreal: U.S. trades top Iranian-backed Iraqi terrorist for British hostage
A Shiite government shouldn’t need a Shiite terrorist released in the interests of “reconciliation.” They can do plenty of other political favors for their sect. Either Iran has more leverage over Baghdad than we thought (even at a moment when […]

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The gutless pussy in the White House tried to railroad Blackwater in order to make himself look good to America’s enemies, but luckily, he failed: All Charges in Blackwater Case Are Dismissed.

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When you have a gutless pussy in the White House?

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Iraq vs. Iran: Implications for U.S. Strategy - John P. Hannah - The Corner on National Review Online
A few thoughts regarding Friday’s seizure of an Iraqi oilfield by Iranian forces:
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Critics of the Bush administration often assert that, in liberating Iraq from Saddam Hussein’s tyranny, America handed the country to Iran on a silver platter, making […]

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Iran to put on trial three US hikers facing spy charges
Iran is to put on trial three US citizens who crossed into Iran while hiking in Iraq, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said.
Who, in their right mind, goes hiking in a war-zone near a disputed border? And the Iranian border at that.
The three […]

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IraqPundit: The Day After
What about Iran? One man said Iran already controls Iraq, why would they want to disrupt that grip they have?
Well, not quite yet. Not officially, at least.

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Iraq Swears by Bomb Detector U.S. Sees as Useless
The small hand-held wand, with a telescopic antenna on a swivel, is being used at hundreds of checkpoints in Iraq. But the device works “on the same principle as a Ouija board” — the power of suggestion — said a retired United States Air Force officer, Lt. […]

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I don’t have a pilots license, but this is one Cessna I wouldn’t mind having. Via Instapundit. A CESSNA CARAVAN armed with Hellfire missiles.

Two Cessna Grand Caravan 208Bs, armed with a pair of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles each, were photographed flying out of Meacham Airport earlier this month. The field has no official military presence, but […]

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Another example of our government’s policy of rewarding our enemies and punishing what should be our allies.
This one has been going on for years and to my surprise has been completely off the MSM’s radar.
Death no longer stalks the White House gates. The hunger strike of more than two dozen Iranian-Americans (as part of a […]

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Why not?

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Vodkapundit » Muddling Through
Steve explains what he means by the term. I still don’t really think that he defines the meaning of “victory,” so much as he explains a strategy for remaining in Afghanistan and gathering intel and killing bad guys.
He describes Afghanistan as being “not so much a country as it […]

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What About Iran?
Over at OTB, Dave Schuler is asking what to do about Iran. I offered some thoughts in their comments. Much of the response so far seems fairly…simplistic.

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Mud Men: Polanski & Le Miserable Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times @ AMERICAN DIGEST
To my mind, stealing a loaf of bread to feed a starving sister and your family doesn’t quite track with drugging and anally raping a minor. Perhaps it does to Goldstein who may well cherish an incident of being anally […]

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Iran! Iran! Iran! (in Iraq)
Bill Ardolino, with whom I have on occasion had some disagreements (and some areas of agreement as well) has just posted an analysis of his take on the state of Iran-Iraq power relations both now and in the near future.
It’s well worth a read. As usual, I don’t agree with […]

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Liberal Blogger Admits: We Claimed to Support “The Good War” in Afghanistan as Political Strategy to Prove Our “Macho” Credentials; We Never Meant It
But none of us should forget that it was a political strategy, not a serious foreign policy.
You claimed to support a war in which American soldiers were fighting and dying, leaving friends […]

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Jimmy Carter’s NSA: Hey, let’s shoot down Israeli jets if they fly over Iraq to attack Iran
Goldfarb in reply: “So conjure the image — the Obama administration sending U.S. aircraft up to protect Iran’s airspace and it’s nuclear installations from an attack by a democracy that is one of […]

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Prisoners riot at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib | Reuters
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prisoners started a fire during a riot at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, U.S. and Iraqi officials said, resulting in some injuries at the jail that became synonymous with U.S. detainee abuse.
…The prison has since been taken over by Iraqi officials and was reopened in February […]

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via Healing Iraq:
iraq, iraq Manufacturers & Suppliers
Iraq Crude Oil(United States)Iraq Crude OilLight Crude OIl (Basra Light) sales are direct…ZPL Energy Inc
United StatesMin. Order: 2,000,000 BarrelsOffline
What the hell is this?
ZPL Energy, Inc., turns out to be what appears to be a Saudi front operation, primarily for Sheik Abdulrahman Ali Al Turki, one of the richest men […]

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Read this:
Mark’s points on the George Will Fray - Andy McCarthy
I have always regarded McCarthy as especially clear-headed on the threat of Islamofascism, and the failures of the Bush Administration in dealing with it.
The only thing I would add is this:
My point is that it is not worthwhile, and is likely counterproductive, to try to […]

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Much has been made of George Will’s claim that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s links with Iran are so close that he
“uses an Iranian jet with an Iranian crew for his official travel.”
This has resulted in much huffing and puffing in the conservative blogosphere that such charges are ridiculous on their face, although I have […]

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George Will : Time to Leave Iraq - Townhall.com
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius correctly argues that “without the backstop of U.S. support,” Iraq is “desperately vulnerable” to Iranian pressure. He also reports, however, that an Iraqi intelligence official says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s links with Iran are so close that he “uses an Iranian jet […]

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George F. Will - Time for the U.S. to Get Out of Afghanistan - washingtonpost.com
Yesterday, this column sent conservative talker Mark Levin into apoplexy, where he called it extremely imprudent and shameful.
But frankly, Will is right, and even Ramesh Ponnoru seems to get it:
George Will’s Change of Heart - Ramesh Ponnuru - The Corner on […]

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Morning Bell: The People Spreading “Disinformation” About Obamacare » The Foundry
Asked Tuesday if the White House recognized Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the country’s legitimate president White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, “He’s the elected leader.”
So was Saddam Hussein.

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