I'm having a bit of a moonbat attack here. I seem to be battling with 2-3 lefties who are pretending to be 10-15, 'cause they keep changing their screen names.

I mean, I could check the IPs to find out how many there really are. But would it be as much fun?

THESE PEOPLE ARE LURING ME INTO A DEBATE ON FALSE PRETENSES! THEY LIE, AND I WASTE TIME! (Wait. That didn't rhyme.)

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Because first of all, it's really Goldstein's kind of project. Also, I adore Graham Nash for personal and professional reasons I shan't go into here.

But I'm cranky and crampy, so you get what you get:

Crawford

So your brother's bound and gagged
And they've seduced him with Fox News
Won't you please come to Crawford just to sing
In a land that's known as cowards, how can we all fail to lose
Won't you please come to Crawford for the help that we can bring?

We can change the world,
Re-arrange the world.
It's dying--if you believe in bombing
Dying--and if you believe in beheadings
Dying

Thinking people, sit yourselves down, there's nothing for you to do
Won't you please come to Crawford for a ride
Don't ask Michael Kelly to help you `cause he's dead, too
Won't you please come to Crawford or else join the other side.

We can change the world,
Re-arrange the world.
It's dying--if you believe in wheat grass
Dying--and if you believe in tofu
Live Casey Sheehan's life.

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Steyn gets the final word on any topic. This time it's the Cindy Sheehan phenomenon.

His entire essay is marked with compassion. He really feels for the media people who used to go to the Hamptons during Clinton's vacations, and are now stuck in . . . Crawford, Texas. He's able to write about this appalling tragedy in a way that's sensitive to both the President (who apparently doesn't want to hobnob with Hollywood celebrities while he's on vacation) and the real victims, reporters forced to go to a tiny town in the scorching Texas heat.

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Via Dean comes this powerful case for allowing Cindy Sheehan to meet with the President. I actually found it quite persuasive.

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. . . is looking for someone to take her place while she's away from Crawford. Any takers?

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Sissy Willis provides a few fascinating tidbits from Michael Yon's energetic reporting about the front-line efforts in Iraq—including a description of one of the ruses our guys used to flush out Iraqi "insurgents." I'll have to start monitoring Yon's website. In the meantime, drop by Sissy's place for a terrific digest.

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1 Thanks for the nice words. Michael Yon rules!

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. . . and why we fight.

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Nice. We protect the privacy of Iraqi women by having female soldiers and Marines search them, and now a group of predominantly female Marines was taken out by AQ bombers. The highest female casualty rate in the entire war.

And this after the women in charge of searching women and girls requested teddy bears for the young ones passing through the checkpoints. Of course, this from guys who behead those they kidnap—male or female.

And all of their most egregious strikes are calculated to get Americans to overreact.

Still: I want these guys dead, and then I want to piss on their graves. From a squatting position.

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1 Of course. (Why do I find that last part vaguely stimulating?)

Posted by: Desert Cat at June 24, 2005 11:59 PM (xdX36)

2 I figured--with all due respect--that some sick bastard would Love you!

Posted by: Attila Girl at June 25, 2005 11:05 AM (RGWNz)

3 *Snrk!* Heh! Outed...

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I'm pretty much with Jeff of BA on the "Saddam's tighty-whities" issue. Abu Ghraib was an embarrassment. But this? It's such a tiny sliver—a percentage of a percentage—vs. what the man deserves.

Military people can worry about the professionalism of those who sold these images to the British tabloids. But I'm at peace with it.

(And, off-topic: is that a great picture of Juliette on her home page, or what? I was two seats away from her when it was taken, and I was so happy when she replaced the old pic with it. She has a delicate beauty about her in person that I'd never seen anyone capture in a still before.)

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Reynolds has a great roundup of quotes from speeches in the pre-invasion period that show promoting democracy in the Middle East was part of our announced intentions from the very start, long before we invaded Iraq. (And, yes: the quotes go back to the Clinton years, though most are from G.W. Bush.)

The next time someone tells you "it was all about the WMDs," you know where to send them.

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I wonder why the mainstream media never ask actual Iraqis how they feel about the war.

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she'd be dead. And we probably wouldn't have used small arms and regular GIs at a check point to do it.

Laurence Simon writes about the Italian "journalist" who was putatively shot at by U.S. soldiers. (Why is the word journalist in quotes? Well, because she writes for a Communist paper. We've learned from the Jeff Gannon affair that anyone who has a strong ideological leaning cannot be a real journalist.)

Unlike people who pretend to support our troops, I actually support our troops. And when some Italian behind the wheel of a car decided "Excusa mea! I'ma gonna justa flya trougha this-a checka-pointa!" instead of stopping, well, I think the troops were right to go for the engine block and I support their decision 100%.

If the driver didn't want to get the car shot up and possibly his passengers along with it, then he shouldn't have tried to run the checkpoint.

Via James.

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The fact that a couple of female MPs engaged in some mud-wrestling at an Army Detention Center in Iraq isn't too shocking. Young people like to party hard, and cops party even harder.

As long as the women—and the men cheering them on—were off-duty, and provided none of the prisoners witnessed the event, I'm not so sure this was an awful, awful thing.

Kids are at the mercy of their hormones sometimes, and need to blow off steam. This was a way to do so relatively harmlessly.

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. . . . explains how the Iraqi elections prove he's always been right about everything. (Note to self: must speak to his siblings regarding this assertion.)

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. . . and Why We Write.

Mike at Cold Fury sums up the case for the war in Iraq. He doesn't baby the opposition, though: if you're one of my lefty readers, you'll have to be in the mood for something bracing if you go there.

Hat tip: Andrea Harris, who is always bracing.

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Don Danz tells the story of Sgt. Rafael Peralta of the USMC, who was mortally wounded in the fight over Fallujah, yet managed in one last heroic act to save four other nearby Marines.

In compiling photos of Sgt. Peralta from his personal life, Don underscores the significance of this fine young man's actions. He was a credit to the Corps.

If you are a Catholic—or belong to another sect that remembers the dead in a special way—say a prayer for him.

If you aren't, do it anyway. And tell me how it feels.

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Of course, the very best one is over at Treacher's place. I even saw that same pic in its original habitat, but somehow wasn't able to copy it onto my hard drive; very annoying. (I guess I could steal it from Treacher, but that would be wraaaawng.)

The point is, we deserve lovely images about this pivotal moment in middle-eastern history. One we helped bring about. Cherish them.

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I'm so ashamed.

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that an Oldsmobile can be a kind of quagmire, too. He's got a point—at least with respect to Senator Kennedy.

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. . . with his own take on the Iraqi elections, and the discomfort they are giving the MSM.

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