Conservative Thoughts

Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold; From Italy to the Galápagos
WASHINGTON — Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands.
The spending on overseas travel is up [...]

ABC News – Iraq’s Parliament will relocate just outside Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone compound in September for the first time since the 2003 US-led invasion, a sign security is improving, the country’s first deputy speaker said. [snip]

One year ago, on May 28, 2007, Memorial Day, Nanette West lost something precious. Her son was killed in Iraq.
On March 17, 2008, she was given a wonderful gift, to try to give her back a part of what she lost. She was presented with a portrait of her son, 1LT Kile G. [...]

I am so very glad Cassandra decided to start blogging again. I am no longer denied her astute insights and great writing. Today, she posted something that should be read widely:
In today’s borderless world, some want to resurrect an isolationist stance which became obsolete as soon as international air travel, telephony and the [...]

This will help Iraq become a peaceful, stable democracy.
From the Task Force Marne website:
The vocational school opened in 1972. Almost 500 students are currently enrolled.
“We are hoping in April to have 850 and in May more than 1,000,” Abbas said.
The end goal of the school is generating employment, said Lt. Col. Robert Bobinski, deputy [...]

Posted with permission
March 2008
A Gold Star Mother’s opinion on the Presidential Election:
I am writing to you because I feel that we need to take more action to try and educate America on what the Operation Iraqi Freedom War is really about before people vote in the November election. I know everyone has their own opinion [...]

This is what happens when troops are withdrawn prematurely!
CNN reports:
The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion — some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture.
Police chief Gen. Abdul Jalil Khalaf holds a book cataloging the dead.
The women are [...]

by Brujo Blanco
“What we still don’t understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battles of TET. You defeated us! We knew [...]

Great Story!!! Go to http://operationamina.blogspot.com/ to help!!!

NASHVILLE – Doctors in Nashville plan to operate Feb. 11 on a sick Iraqi girl found by a Gainesville Marine. She had been hospitalized at Vanderbilt hospital, but for now is staying with a host family.
Maj. Kevin Jarrard was on routine patrol in the Iraqi town of Haditha [...]

by Haider Ajina
Iraqi Security Forces Gain in Capability
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces increasingly demonstrate their professionalism and willingness to step up to protect the Iraqi people, a spokesman for Multinational Corps Iraq told reporters Sunday.
During a briefing in Baghdad , Navy Rear Adm. Gregory J. Smith pointed to numerous signs of progress in training and [...]

by Haider Ajina
64000 Iraqis Returned Back From Syria Last 3 Months
Karbala ‘, Jan.7
Iraqi Red Crescent announced that, the number of returned citizens from Syria over the last 3 months reached up to 64000 citizens, most of them from Baghdad (38 000) citizens. 20000 of them in Karch districts and 18000 in Rasafa [...]

by Haider Ajina
German Chancellor and members of parliament receive memo condemning Wahabisim’.
In their first protest outside of the German Parliament building (Reichstag) in temperatures below zero. They have been protesting in front of the Saudi Embassy in Berlin fifteen times. Free Iraqis protest the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia cradling Wahabi Terrorism. They Protest terrorist ‘fatwas’ [...]

by Haider Ajina
Government ratifies general amnesty lawBaghdad , 27 December 2007 (Voices of Iraq )
The Iraqi government on Wednesday approved a draft law granting a general amnesty to thousands of detainees in U.S. and Iraqi prisons and detention centers, according to a government spokesman.
“The cabinet ratified the draft general amnesty law specifying those who will [...]

Bill Whittle has posted a new, two-part essay. I believe it is a Must Read.
From Forty Second Boyd & the Big Picture:
Whatever the action is, whether thrust or parry, Boyd realized that it is only here, in the fourth step – Observe-Orient-Decide-Act – that physical combat occurs. Being “a good stick” will help you [...]

By Robert Farrow
While the media obsesses over Iraq and how we treat Al-Qaeda in our prison camps, another war that is happening daily remains unreported by our “media” If one would believe their reporting, one might almost think this is not terrorism, judging by their silence on the matter.

Where are the libs and [...]