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Today on Frontpage Magazine,David Horowitz and Ben Johnson explore the success and criticism of the Iraq war. This is an excellent read. Unfortunately, the success in Iraq may be short-lived under the BOPAC Administration.
The Great Betrayal
By David Horowitz and Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, March 19, 2009
On this sixth anniversary of America's invasion of Iraq, there is finally a consensus among supporters and opponents that we’ve won the war. The surge that Bush launched and Democrats opposed has been successful and, as a result, Iraq has become a Middle Eastern democracy, an anti-terrorist regime, and an American ally. It would be hard to imagine a more remarkable turnabout or a more comprehensive repudiation of conventional political wisdom. Yet this has not led to a comparable reappraisal by critics of the war of their previous attacks, or to any mea culpas by Democrats who launched a scorched earth campaign against the president who led it, and continued it for five years while the war dragged on.
The Democratic attacks on the war described America’s commander-in-chief as a liar who misled his country and sent American soldiers to die in a conflict that was unnecessary, illegal and unjust. This made prosecution of the war incalculably harder while strengthening the resolve of our enemies to defeat us. It is time to re-evaluate the words and actions of the war’s opponents in the stark light of a history that proved them wrong....Continue Reading
According to the U.S. government, about 17 million barrels of oil and
petroleum products crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, 31 August.Energy
Secretary Chris Wright gave that figure to reporters on Tuesday, 1
September. He said the entire 17 million barrels moved by ship, and that it
was the highest daily volume through the strait since the war began. He
separately noted that pipelines around the strait can add another 4–5
million barrels a day of Gulf exports, but that extra volume does not
itself transit Hormuz.
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According to the U.S. government, about 17 million barrels of oil and
petroleum products crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, 31 August.Energy
Secretary...
1 week ago