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Washington Times: Obama Tried To Thwart U.S. Military Deal In Iraq

That's per Drudge:

WASH TIMES Friday:  Obama secretly tried to sway Iraqi government to ignore Bush deal on keeping troops in Iraq... Developing...

Who knows what the story will actually say or what evidence they've got, but if this is any kind of true, it seems more than a little problematic.

Update:  Here's the story (excerpting and emphasis mine):

At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn't be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval.
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Some of the specifics of the conversations remain the subject of dispute. Iraqi leaders purported to The Times that Mr. Obama urged Baghdad to delay an agreement with Mr. Bush until next year when a new president will be in office - a charge the Democratic campaign denies.

Mr. Obama spoke June 16 to Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari when he was in Washington, according to both the Iraqi Embassy in Washington and the Obama campaign. Both said the conversation was at Mr. Zebari's request and took place on the phone because Mr. Obama was traveling.

However, the two sides differ over what Mr. Obama said.

"In the conversation, the senator urged Iraq to delay the [memorandum of understanding] between Iraq and the United States until the new administration was in place," said Samir Sumaidaie, Iraq's ambassador to the United States.

He said Mr. Zebari replied that any such agreement would not bind a new administration. "The new administration will have a free hand to opt out," he said the foreign minister told Mr. Obama.
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A recent article in the New York Post quoted Mr. Zebari as saying that Mr. Obama asked Iraqi leaders in July to delay any agreement on a reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq until the next U.S. president takes office.

[Obama campaign spokeswoman Wendy] Morigi denied this. She said the request for Senate vetting was bipartisan and noted that the first Obama-Zebari conversation took place 12 days after four other members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - including Republican Sens. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska - wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates urging consultation over any agreements committing U.S. troops and civilian contractors to Iraq "for an extended period of time.
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Still, the fact that the Illinois Democrat on June 3 clinched enough delegates to be assured the Democratic presidential nomination gives his comments special force - something that also applies to the Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a key proponent of the surge of extra U.S. forces to Iraq last year.

As a U.S. senator, Mr. Obama "has a foot in both camps," said Ross K. Baker, a professor of political science at Rutgers University. "It's within the jurisdiction of his committee and something he's entitled to speak about. It doesn't raise a red flag for me.

Obama's phone call with Zebari (which took place with both parties stateside) was first reported back in June by the Washington Post.

A subsequent July meeting in Baghdad involving Obama and Iraqi leaders was the subject of similar controversy, though Republican Senators present at the meeting backed up Obama's version of the proceedings.

The still squishy reality of what transpired in the unrecorded June phone conference seem to dwell in an unsavory, but ultimately gray kind of area, unless Morigi is mischaracterizing the conversation and Obama was off on his own very unofficial jaunt.

That said, this manner of flap involving a Presidential campaign has happened before (though the candidate didn't serve as his own instrument in the questionable negotiation) and it definitely ruffled some feathers.

Historian Robert Dallek has documented meetings with South Vietnamese diplomats in 1968 by Republican vice-presidential candidate Spiro Agnew and Anna Chennault, widow of Gen. Claire Chennault, the commander of "Flying Tiger" forces in China during World War II.

Mr. Dallek, author of "Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1961-1973," obtained tapes of the conversations from bugs the Johnson administration had placed in the South Vietnamese Embassy in Washington.

Negotiations to end the Vietnam War were taking place in Paris at the time between the Johnson administration and the North and South Vietnamese.

Mr. Agnew and Mrs. Chennault "signaled the South Vietnamese that they would get a better deal with Richard Nixon as president instead of the Democrat" Hubert Humphrey, Mr. Dallek said.

"Johnson was furious and said that Nixon was guilty of treason," Mr. Dallek said, but neither he nor Mr. Humphrey disclosed the matter before the election, which Mr. Nixon won.

Hindsight Is Blurry, Astigmatic

Let's hope this puts to rest once and for all the notion that Barack "Gun Totin', Bible Quotin', FISA Votin'" Obama is some kind of flip-flopper.

In the hypothetical situation that Barack Obama could go back in time knowing what he knows now, he would still oppose the so-called "surge" of U.S. forces in Iraq.

Asked by ABC Monday if he would support the surge if he could "do it all over again," Obama said "no," adding "these kinds of hypotheticals are very difficult."

Right... except that's not a hypothetical.  That's a gimme.

The reasons it's (sometimes) valid to duck a hypothetical question are that 1) the respondent can't know all the variables that might be in place, were the approximate situation to play out in the future and it's therefore reasonable to want to avoid pigeonholing oneself to what might be construed as a blanket standpoint, and 2) in matters of the Presidency, there are countless situations in which advance knowledge of your strategic inclinations would be valuable to parties with whom you don't share interests.

A clearly invalid reason to duck a "hypothetical" is the fact that making it a reality carries the rather burdensome requirement of sending you back in time to counsel yourself.  There's no problem of precedent or strategic advantage involved in Obama asking himself the "If I had it to do all over again" question.  The only problem here is a political one.  The surge has been an unmistakable and remarkable success, forcing even the strategy's most detached critics to acknowledge that it has worked (even if they quite crazily missed the point).

But while Obama can't claim the surge didn't work, the left (the blindly pacifistic left, the ones who brought him to the dance, spurning his superficially more centrist competition) could never forgive a betrayal so central as to concede he was on the wrong side of that seminal vote.

In a nice bit of logical gymnastics, Obama seems to acknowledge that, well yes, maybe he should've gotten on board with what was clearly the advisable strategy advocated by his colleagues across the aisle.  But the Larger Truth - you're admonished to recall - is that the Bush administration is unpopular and it needed disagreeing with.  If the Bush administration supported the surge, ipso facto, the surge needed resisting.

"Hindsight is 20/20. But I think that, what I'm absolutely convinced of, is that at that time we had to change the political debate because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one that I just disagreed with," Obama said.

Just to refresh... this is the Good Judgment candidate, right?  The post-partisan one, whose preternatural intuitive powers offset the lack of experience and record of achievement or leadership?

What Is the Sound Of One Brain Cell Firing?

Hint: It's the same sound Chris Matthews makes when he tries to screak loud enough to drown out his own cognitive dissonance.

Urr-Eee, Urr-Eee

Additional virtue of New Kind Of Politician revealed: Post-Consistency.

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's campaign scrubbed his presidential Web site over the weekend to remove criticism of the U.S. troop "surge" in Iraq, the Daily News has learned.

The presumed Democratic nominee replaced his Iraq issue Web page, which had described the surge as a "problem" that had barely reduced violence.

(HT: Ed Morrissey)

Previously: Out: Post-Partisan. In: Post-Economic

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Update:  Psst, Barry!  You missed a spot.

Update:  Gutfeld uncovers two more Obamian Virtues: a chiseled Post-erior and cherubic Post-erity. 

From the Frontlines: Tonight, 4 pm-Midnight

Starting at 4:00 this afternoon, Michelle Malkin and Melanie Morgan will host an 8-hour web event "to sponsor the largest care package shipment to U.S. troops in history."  Guests will include Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, and Five For Fighting's John Ondrasik.

You can watch it live below (or at the From the Frontlines Ustream channel or at Michelle's blog or at Move America Forward or wherever you feel coziest).

.TV online : provided by Ustream

Incredibly, the event has already raised a quarter of a million dollars in one day, more than an hour before it even kicks off.  You can sponsor a care package (from $15.99 to $899.99) here.

(If you do, just use your billing address as the shipping address.  It'll get to the right place.)

Update:  Wow, the special guest list is a lot more special that I realized.  Hot Air has posted a complete hour-by-hour line-up and it's busting at the seams with just about everyone in the would-be crosshairs of Son of Fairness Doctrine.  Notably absent from the list is John Gibson, who I assume is being kept in an undisclosed location to ensure continuity of (profitable) American talk radio in the event of an emergency.

Update:  Grand total: $1,055,719!  Seems like that ought to reach the "largest care package shipment ever" threshold without a problem.  Enough for 50,000 or so troops, judging by the package prices.

Insectivorous Centenarian Dragon Discovered In Iraq

Um... what?

A group of persons accidentally found a 100-year-old rare animal, according to deputy rector of Duhuk University for scientific affairs on Tuesday.

"The animal, found accidentally this week in Bajiel region in Aqra district, western Duhuk, is unlike any other animal. It feeds on reptiles and bugs," Hassan Amin told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).

"After watching the short movie made by a group of ordinary persons, we can say that the extinct animal is more than 100 years-old and is related to the Dragon family," Amin explained.

"We have discussed the issue with two specialized centers in Germany and Britain to know more details about this animal, which was discovered in the country for the first time," he noted.
Duhuk is located 460 km north of Baghdad.

(HT: Gateway Pundit, via Hot Air Headlines)

Score One For the Evil American Military-Industrial Complex

They hoodwinked us into thinking we were trading American blood for sweet Iraqi oil.  Turns out that was just a distraction.  The real aim of this senseless war was to secure sweet Iraqi aircraft manufacturing contracts.

The spokesman for the Iraqi government, Ali al-Dabbagh, said the Iraqi government signed a $5.5 billion deal with U.S.-based Boeing to purchase 40 new airplanes with an option to buy 15 more, Voices of Iraq reported.

But America's detractors can take heart.  There's still a blood-for-oil connection to cling to.

"The funding for the ... budget was earned from the rise in raw oil prices in the global markets," the spokesman said.

See, the world still makes sense.  With the CEOs of major oil companies keeping energy prices artificially high, the world's oil consumers (principally within the United States, and none more sensitive to such prices than the customers of companies like Boeing) have to pay more for their oil, thus enriching the Iraqi government to the extent that it can afford to line the pockets of American manufacturing firms like Boeing (which can in turn churn out more war machines for the U.S. military, so we can overthrow another peace-loving dictator in an oil-rich state).

Or something like that.  I'm ill-skilled at reproducing liberal logic.  It makes my brain cry.

Of course, the announcement of this multi-billion dollar contract is very encouraging news, both as an indication of continued economic progress and stability in Iraq, and as a shot in the arm for the flagging American manufacturing sector.

This is a multi-year contract, so those billions won't all flow to Boeing's income statement at once, but for reference, $5.5 billion amounts to more than 8% of the company's 2007 revenues.

(HT: JWF)

Hollywood's Next Anti-War Flop

And this one isn't just anti-war, it's unabashedly anti-troop.

Not satisfied with its string of war flops and smears of the US military in Iraq, from In the Valley of Elah to Redacted, in March Hollywood will serve up Stop-Loss.  Starring Ryan Phillipe, Stop-Loss tells the story of a soldier who is retained in the military on his last day of service and told he’s being shipped back to Iraq. But watch the trailer. Not content just to preach against one clause that’s in every single military volunteer’s contract, the film suggests that the soldier and his unit committed war crimes in Iraq. It promotes re-instating the draft. It states flatly that desertion is more honorable than service. In taking these lines, Stop-Loss is promoting the extreme left, Cindy Sheehan World Can’t Wait point of view.

Bryan at Hot Air (quoted above) offers up the preview of this ugly little film and surmises that the producers who keep cranking out this garbage are indifferent about the heavy financial losses they're yielding.  I'm not sure I agree.  I suspect the self-involved cinematic preachers producing these movies truly believe this message simply must resonate with Americans, and that the box office will eventually bear that out, if only they can get the formula just right.  I suspect even the most venomously anti-American studio execs are still fiercely bottom-line driven and that it's just a matter of time (admittedly, perhaps a long time) before a big enough mountain of disconfirming data piles up to convince them that - for some reason - the boorish American movie-going public does not in fact share the Dream Factory's left-wing enlightenment.

Hillary's Jaw-Dropping Self-Aggrandizement

Yesterday, I poked fun at Bill Clinton's assertion that the middle few weeks of his wife's primary campaign constituted "an unprecedented challenge ... in the history of American politics."

Now, based on what we learned on "Meet the Press" this morning, I'm forced to eat those words.  It turns out that credit for the remarkable improvement seen in Iraq in recent months belongs not with the troop surge, but rather with... Hillary Clinton's primary campaign. (HT: NRO)

MR. RUSSERT: If General Petraeus says, "Senator, in September you called the surge the suspension of belief. It has worked, and you know it's worked"--let me finish--"you can see on the ground. I'm saying to you, Senator, or president-elect Clinton, don't destroy Iraq. It's working, the surge is working. Keep troops there just a few more months to get this reconciliation complete."

SEN. CLINTON: [...] The point of the surge was to quickly move the Iraqi government and Iraqi people. That is only now beginning to happen, and I believe in large measure because the Iraqi government, they watch us, they listen to us. I know very well that they follow everything that I say. And my commitment to begin withdrawing our troops in January of 2009 is a big factor, as it is with Senator Obama, Senator Edwards, those of us on the Democratic side. It is a big factor in pushing the Iraqi government to finally do what they should have been doing all along.

In another Hillary-centric post yesterday, discussing her plans to cripple the American energy sector, I also offered that "she's either remarkably dim or she thinks you are."

In light of her suggestion that she's responsible for recent (and presumably future) successes in Iraq, I think I'll stand by that one.

Judith Klinghoffer expounds.

She takes credit for American success achieved despite her opposition and plans to wrangle defeat from the jaws of victory if elected president. Yes, Al Qaeda is watching and she has just informed them that she had learned nothing from Somalia where she insisted Bill withdraw precipitously to force Somalis and the UN to take responsibility.

Tim Russert would never question her about her role in Somalia. But in her book For Love of Politics Sally Bedell Smith reports that it was Hillary who overrided Bill's concerns that his decision to withdraw all American troops within 6 months would send the wrong message to US enemies. He did not know he emboldened Bin Laden but he had enough sense to assume he would embolden someone. He did. It is disconcerting to realize that Hillary has learned nothing from the experience and that neither have those who do not question her current "promise" to Bin Laden and company that if they behave until she (or another fellow democrat) is elected president, they can look forward to turning Iraq of another Somalia.

Update: Via Allah, Stop the ACLU points us to video of the aggrandizement in question.

December 2007 Least Deadly Month In Iraq War

While the media is eagerly chalking up 2007 as the deadliest year for US troops since the start of the Iraq War (the tacit extension being that things are now as bad as or worse than they've ever been), there's far less focus on the fact that this month is on track to be least deadly since the war began.

With 21 reported US military deaths, troop fatalities averaged 0.68 per day in December 2007.  That's slightly better than February 2004, the next least deadly month, which saw 20 US fatalities (0.69 per day), and markedly better than last December, which saw the loss of 112 US troops (3.61 per day).

More notable is the rate at which troop fatalities have been falling since the surge was fully implemented.  Over the last 7 months, the average daily fatality rate has fallen 83% (from over 4 per day to less than 1).

Nor was December an anomaly.  The three-month period ended December 31, 2007 was also the least deadly three-month period since the start of the war, with US military fatalities averaging 1.0 per day, down 67% from the same period last year.

December Troop Fatality Rate Down 80% Since May

Halfway through December (a month that claimed the lives of 112 U.S. troops last year), the pace of American fatalities in Iraq continues its dramatic decline, plotting an encouragingly steady trendline.  While at least 12 Americans have been killed this month, the effectiveness of the troop surge continues to be remarkable.

In Some Parallel Universe, the Speaker Of the House Is Pleased By the Good News For Her Country and Its Defenders

Even John "Abscam" Murtha, who this summer called the troop surge a "failed policy wrapped in illusion" is now forced to recognize its efficacy.  But for Nancy Pelosi, queen of the Congressional delegation whose fortunes are (as Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer eagerly point out) aligned with failure, even Murtha's well belated, begrudging recognition of military progress is an unforgivable sin.

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), one of the leading anti-war voices in the House Democratic Caucus, is back from a trip to Iraq and he now says the "surge is working." This could be a huge problem for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democratic leaders, who are blocking approval of the full $200 billion being sought by President Bush for combat operations in Iraq in 2008.
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"This could be a real headache for us," said one top House Democratic aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "Pelosi is going to be furious."

To appreciate just how effective the surge has been in getting Iraq under control, consider how drastically U.S. troop fatalities have declined in the months since its implementation.  The last of the troop reinforcements arrived in Iraq in June.  Since May 31st, the monthly casualty rate has fallen by more than two thirds (no wonder Democratic Presidential candidates suddenly want to stop evaluating the war with "body counts").

There are still a few hours of November left in Iraq, but as of today, U.S. fatalities total 37 since November 1st.  Extrapolating, that rate suggests that one more American will tragically lose his life in Iraq today.  38 U.S. deaths in November would be unchanged from last month and the lowest level since March of 2006.

But that doesn't tell the whole story.

Violence in Iraq is seasonal, with some months tending to be bloodier than others.  A combined result of any number of factors (the religious calendar, seasonal climate, and who knows what else), November is typically the deadliest month of the year (with a fatality rate more than 40% higher than the rest of the year).

If you apply the appropriate seasonal adjustment to each month (based on fatality rates over the 51 months between the beginning of the war and the full implementation of the surge), you find that November 2007 has in fact been the least deadly since the war began (27, as adjusted, vs. 28 in February 2004).

This is even more encouraging news for the surge strategy, for American soldiers, for the war effort, and for our national interests.  If Pelosi is as furious as her aide fears, maybe she should focus her contemplation on what this trend portends for her country and her countrymen, not what it means for her delegation.

Better still, she can encourage her Democratic colleagues to get on the side of victory, so that those interests will no longer be at odds.

Obama: In My Defense, That Lie Was Expedient

On "Meet the Press" this week, Barack Obama offered an explanation for his shifting opinions (and his revisionist recollection of those opinions) on the Iraq War, without displaying so much as a glimmer of comprehension that what he said about himself was terribly incriminating.

Contrary to the Congrssional newbie's untestable "I would've voted against the war" assertions, Obama was singing a different tune a few years ago.

MR. RUSSERT:  You were not in the Senate in October of 2002.  You did give a speech opposing the war.  But Senator Clinton’s campaign will say since you’ve been a senator there’s been no difference in your record.  And other critics will say that you’ve not been a leader against the war, and they point to this:  In July of ‘04, Barack Obama, “I’m not privy to Senate intelligence reports.  What would I have done?  I don’t know,” in terms of how you would have voted on the war.  And then this:  “There’s not much of a difference between my position on Iraq and George Bush’s position at this stage.” That was July of ‘04.  And this:  “I think” there’s “some room for disagreement in that initial decision to vote for authorization of the war.” It doesn’t seem that you are firmly wedded against the war, and that you left some wiggle room that, if you had been in the Senate, you may have voted for it.

SEN. OBAMA:  Now, Tim, that first quote was made with an interview with a guy named Tim Russert on MEET THE PRESS during the convention when we had a nominee for the presidency and a vice president, both of whom had voted for the war.  And so it, it probably was the wrong time for me to be making a strong case against our party’s nominees’ decisions when it came to Iraq.

The Senator has no observable interest in refuting the glaring inconsistency or trying to nuance it away.  He genuinely seems to believe that illustrating the a-principled, purely political motivations behind his fairweather war support somehow acquit him.

The extreme brevity of Obama's experience in national politics has, to date, been more blessing than curse, as it's given him an opportunity to invent a pro forma pre-2005 voting record that appeases current public sentiment, then insist on its hypothetical authenticity and the deeply principled beliefs behind it.

So now we're left to wonder - is Obama's eternal, unshakable, principled objection to the war fictional?  Or is it real, but apparently so flimsy that he was willing to publicly disavow it while he was auditioning for a transfer from Springfield to Washington in 2004?  Logically, those two options would seem to be mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive.  It can't be neither and it can't be both.

Either option involves not only opportunistic bloodlust, but deceit in the course of electioneering.  Since Obama is once again stumping for a political promotion, shouldn't we assume that during this period, his rhetoric is similarly calculated and his principles similarly manufactured?

Labor Day Be Damned, Pelosi's Donning White Again

I must say, her absolute refusal to give up in her long, hard struggle to surrender is breathtaking.

Band Of Bloggers

Interesting.

Band of Bloggers

Explore the impact of blogging as a new medium for immediate and raw information. In the midst of modern day combat examine the unfiltered and raw evolution of military blogs and bloggers. Listen as soldiers who during their recent Iraq deployments reflect on the important connection they had with their blogging and how the band of military bloggers has revolutionized the way we understand combat. Experience firsthand, unfiltered accounts of the pain, the hardship, and even the simple beauty found in Iraq; stories that often go unseen in the media's coverage of the war.

Milblogger Blackfive reports he helped the History Channel find soldiers to video blog from Iraq and Afghanistan for this project last spring.

The show premieres Friday at 8 pm.

That Failed Surge

Adapted from a slide used in a presentation (pdf) this morning at a Multinational Force Iraq press briefing, this chart of the average daily rate of IED explosions in all of Iraq offers a dramatic illustration of just how significantly the level of violence has receded in the months since the troop surge was implemented.

You can watch the briefing, given by Rear Adm. Greg Smith, MNF-I and Lt. Commander Keith Dowling, Task Force Troy, here.

Having written off the surge before it began, Congressional Democrats and judicious media types became suddenly reluctant to leap to data-driven conclusions when indicators started trending well in early summer.  Now that we have more than 6 months of surge data to look at, will legislative detractors and media outlets begin to notice the trend?

Don't bet on it.

If a Soldier Doesn't Fall In Iraq, Does It Make the News?

Barely.

You haven’t read about this on the front page of the NYTimes, have you?  Doesn’t fit the narrative:

There have certainly been several days in the past month when no US or British soldiers were killed.

During a five-day stretch between October 19 and 23, there were no deaths among coalition forces. Although three US servicemen died from “non-hostile causes”, this was the longest period without combat deaths for almost four years. And, between October 27 and 29, there were more days without coalition deaths.

Tony Snow has a theory about the genesis of systemic media bias.  And he doesn't mind sharing it with his colleagues.

(For some reason, that didn't get much coverage either.)

Joe Biden Polling Well In NH's Pre-Teen Bracket

It's a shame they can't vote.  Not yet, anyway...  Maybe Papa Joe can ask his fellow Hsu beneficiary Governor Lynch to issue the kids some kind of junior driver's licenses - that seems to solve the whole "can't vote legally" hassle.  I know a guy, if he's interested.

The words were a bit simpler but the answers none the shorter when Joe Biden, who has a reputation for being verbose, faced an audience of fourth-graders Thursday.  The Democratic presidential candidate encountered the group in the lobby of the New Hampshire statehouse on his way to filing his candidacy with the secretary of state's office.
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He especially liked the answer he got when he asked them to predict the next president.

"You!"

He also found time to feed them that sole acceptable concession of anti-war pols: Saddam Hussein was probably at least slightly less than a perfectly delightful person.

He also gave a detailed answer to a question adults don't often ask candidates: How did the war in Iraq start?
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"We had a right to, and we should've gone, to Afghanistan to try to get bin Laden and those people who've done very bad things to America," he said.

"But the president, I think, he got a little confused," he continued. "I think he thought the folks in another country, way, way far away, far from here, it's also far from Afghanistan, called Iraq. He said, 'The guy in Iraq he helped bin Laden do bad things to us,' and he didn't. He wasn't a good guy, but he didn't help. So we used that kind of as an excuse to attack Iraq."

Kossack Lust For War Dead Getting Goulish

The political site to which every major Democratic Presidential pays homage has long enjoyed the hobby of tallying fallen American soldiers in the Iraq War, but the practice has just taken a slightly more horrifying turn.

One of the site's diarists had the bright idea (promoted to the front page by one of the keepers) of including veteran suicides in the "Bush lied" death toll.

It's time to change of count of American war dead upward.

At least 430 American soldiers have committed suicide since returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan -- and that doesn't even include those who kill themselves before being discharged from the military or commit "suicide by cop."

Regardless, it's clear is that we need to change our count of casualties upward from 4,229 .U.S military deaths (3,842 in Iraq and 387 in Afghanistan) to closer to 5,000 -- possibly more when you consider those deaths that still haven't been counted.

(I assume ".U.S" is some kind of delightfully cynical upside-down-flag kind of protest of the fellow's country on the whole, and not a very bizarre typo.)

What the diarist, Aaron Glantz, is referring to is this AP story that dribbles out a few statistical morsels from an ongoing VA study of the incidence of suicide among veterans.  At first glance, the statistics are pretty daunting - could suicide really be inflating the true number of war-related deaths by more than 10%?

In a word, no.

Glantz neglects to excerpt one inconvenient line from the AP story.

The numbers, while not dramatically different from society as a whole, are reminiscent of the increased suicide risk among returning soldiers in the Vietnam era.

It goes without saying that any suicides are unspeakably tragic and assuming there's any statistically significant difference in the rate among veterans (which stands to reason), even if it's not "dramatically different", then the VA's study and any actionable recommendations that can be derived from it will surely be important work.

But collecting all these deaths into your count of casualties of war is not only opportunistically morbid, it's plainly incorrect.  There are more than 1.6 million veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.  Sadly, but undeniably, in any population that large, there are going to be many deaths and some are going to be suicides.  If you want to update your Bush death toll to reflect the uncounted veterans who took their own lives after returning home, the relevant figure will be the number of suicides in excess of the number to be expected by a similar population in civilian society.

This calculation, admittedly, is in itself a little morbid.  But it's exactly what the VA is doing and it serves a vital end, if our goal is to understand the true impact in order to better address it, rather than simply to prop up as many corpses as possible to bolster a political argument.

Until the government study is completed and made publicly available (or until the AP reveals more of the details), consider this a very rough (but certainly more candid) estimate of the uncounted war-related deaths owing to suicide.

Based on global troop deployment since 2001 (and estimates of the average tour length and percentage of personnel that are combat troops, that being the observed population), Americans have spent something like 250,000 person-years in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan and 1.2 million person-years back home, including those who have been discharged since October 2001 after having served in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Kuwait (the study is said to include at all combat troops discharges since 2001, regardless of theater).

Based on CDC data on the incidence of suicide among 25-44-year-olds in America (and accounting for the fact that men have suicide rate 4x that of women), the expected number of suicides to occur during that many person-years in an equivalent population of American civilians would be roughly 340.

If that's accurate, the large majority of the 430 tragic suicides these anti-war body counters are so eager to claim were not incremental.  Sadly, veterans die, like all Americans.  Some of war injuries, some of natural causes, some of stateside violence having nothing to do with military conflict.

Multiple studies make it clear that combat veterans suffer from a higher incidence of post-traumatic stress.  It would not be surprising, therefore, to learn that they suffer from higher suicide rates, which is why the VA study is important work, which hopefully will lead to ideas of how to improve the situation.  But one sickening side effect of such research appears to be equipping oddly bloodthirsty peaceniks with more data for them to misinterpret.

Trend on the Mend

American service member deaths in Iraq were lower again in October, and are the lowest in nearly two years and the second-lowest total since February 2004.  Per USA Today:

While there are no reliable figures on Iraqi civilian deaths, anecdotal evidence also points towards significant progress.

At what's believed to be the world's largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn't good.

A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that's cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.

These recent reports are very welcome news, but the trend is even more exciting.  The surge is working, but be careful telling that to Democrats.  Recall the letter Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi penned in June:

As many had foreseen, the escalation has failed to produce the intended results
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The increase in US forces has had little impact in curbing the violence or fostering political reconciliation
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In fact, the last two months of the war were the deadliest to date for US troops.

Being shortsighted and rashly critiquing American progress are not very becoming.  That's okay, Reid and Pelosi weren't alone in their attempt to justify their political objectives.  Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama made this assessment in late July:

Here's what we know. The surge has not worked.

Perhaps "here's what we know" was not the right introductory sentence. 

There is still a ways to go in Iraq but Gen. Petraeus has demonstrated that he is the right guy for the job.  I wonder if the vote was held again, if Senators Reid and Obama would change their minds.

Creepy Is Just 5 Degrees Off Folksy

In case you missed it, Hillary Clinton turns 60 tomorrow.  Her campaign has been celebrating for the last few days and today broadcasts this message from campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle.

Here's one of my favorite stories about celebrating Hillary's birthday.

It was her first birthday as First Lady. After all the talk of her changing hairstyles during the campaign, the staff thought it would be funny to surprise her by dressing up as different "Hillarys" -- there was Headband Hillary, Campaign Hillary, Lawyer Hillary, Short-Hair Hillary. I was the 1992 Democratic Convention Hillary -- with the sassy haircut. 

I prefer the 1984 Hillary myself.

Is this meant to further "humanize" the candidate?  I'm not sure how many Americans identify with birthday bashes in which their staff all dress up as their various manufactured public personae...

This year, rumor has it the campaign staffers are dressing up as Hillary's different positions on the Iraq war -- hawkish Hillary, peacenik Hillary, duped-by-the-President Hillary, date certain Hillary, equivocal Hillary, fence-riding Hillary, hawkish again Hillary, etc.

It's a good thing she's got a bigger staff now than she did as First Lady.

Congratulations, Bobby Caina Calvan!

You've just inspired the most unanimous comment flood in blog history.

Kudos, sir.  You really, really deserve it.

And now, the next time you play the "Do you know who I am?" game, the answer will surely be yes.

Update: Bah, he's yanked the post.  Happily, Ace has preserved it for posterity, but I fear the comment flood may have slipped down the memory hole.

Update: From the comments, Docweasel has the whole shebang preserved.

Shattered Glass II Officially Greenlit

Drudge has gotten his hands on a handful of transcripts (including conversations between The New Republic editorial staff and their Baghdad fabulist Scott Beauchamp) which tend to confirm and further ugly up the thrice-disgraced publication's handling of its most recent rogue contributor.

Michelle, Bob, and Allah are all plowing through the documents.

Previously: The New Republic Box Set

Only Minutes Left To Bid On Limbaugh Letter - A Bargain At $2.1 Million [Update: Sold!]

The letter signed by 41 Democratic Senators condemning an influential private citizen for a sentiment they knew he never conveyed nor held continues to skyrocket on eBay.  It's for a good cause too: the Marine Corps - Law Enforcement Foundation.  What's more, Rush has promised to match the winning bid with a donation of his own, a pledge he must've made without any clue that the bidding would get so high.

Sometimes eleventh hour tactical bids will push the sale price significantly higher, so it'll be interesting to see what happens in the final stretch.

eBay is using bidder pre-qualification process for this auction (whatever that entails), so one would hope these bids are legit, but given how astronomical they've gotten, one's forgiven for envisioning the possibility that a neredowell (well, I suppose it would take at least two, or at least two accounts, anyway) has pumped up the price without intending to pay up, simply to serve Rush with a bigger matching gift invoice.  Hopefully, we'll know shortly after 1:00 pm.

If the $2.1 million bid is legit and Rush matches it, the windfall would amount to nearly 15% of the aid distributed by the foundation since its inception 12 years ago.

Update:  Sold!  For $2.1 million to bettyc588.  Betty has a long purchase history and a 100% positive feedback score.

Update:  Mmm.  I just threw up in my mouth a little.  As will you shortly, as you witness Harry Reid attempt to take credit for this noble, magnificent, arguably heroic joke on him and 40 of his colleagues, slinging more condescension and naked hypocrisy than I would've guessed he - yes even he - could muster. (HT: LGF)

Rush Limbaugh should know that this letter that they’re auctioning is going to be something that raises money for a worthwhile cause. I don’t know what we could do more important than helping to ensure that children of our fallen soldiers and police officers who have fallen in the line of duty have the opportunity for their children to have a good education. Think of this, more than $2 million — that will really help. that’s, again, an understatement. There’s only a little bit of time left so i would ask those that are wanting to do more, that they can go to Harry Reid letter and it will come up on e-bay. I encourage anyone interested with the means  to consider contributing to this worthwhile cause. I strongly believe when we can put our differences aside, even Harry Reid and Rush Limbaugh, we should do that and try to accomplish good things for the American people. This does that, madam president. More than $2 million for a letter signed by this senator and my friends.

Update: On his radio show, Rush commented on the philanthropic winning bidder Betty Casey (and affirmed he will match the $2.1 million donation).  He also notes that the auction apparently "broke eBay" in the final moments of the auction.  (HT: Allah)

Pink On Blue

Egads.  Code Pink is just ferociously unpleasant, no matter who they're pestering.

Overdue Understatement Of the Day

Rock on.

WE'D love to see a debate on the war in Iraq between Kid Rock and Sean Penn. Rock didn't name Penn in his interview with Penthouse magazine, but he seemed to be aiming at the actor when he said, "These kids [U.S. soldiers] are very young and a lot of them think people who oppose the war are against them. You have to be very careful with what you talk about - especially when you are some Hollywood [bleep]er. Just because you made a great movie doesn't make you are an expert on foreign policy." Rock spent Christmas with the troops and met then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, whom he defends. "I was at the White House drinking a Beam and Coke, shooting the [bleep] with Rumsfeld, when [President] Bush came by and gave me five like we were on Seven Mile and Van Dyke in Detroit," he told Penthouse. And Rock is a big proponent of firearms: "If it weren't for guns and people who know how to use them in America, we'd all be sitting around with swastikas saying, 'Heil Hitler!' "

I have to admit I'm a little confused.  If trendily anti-American celebtrities aren't necessarily foreign policy experts, why would a Hollywood-obsessed anti-American foreign dictator welcome them as such?

(HT: HA Headlines)

David Shuster: He May Be Morbidly Brazen, But At Least He's Inaccurate

Gah.

A couple days ago, describing here the way MSNBC's David Shuster used a fallen soldier to play a tasteless "gotcha" game with Rep. Marsha Blackburn, (R-Tenn.), I surmised that things couldn't "get much lower."

I was wrong.  They just did.
...
Blackburn had been invited onto "Tucker" ostensibly to discuss MoveOn.org's "General Betray Us" ad. But Shuster, serving as substitute host for Carlson, suddenly sandbagged Blackburn with this "gotcha" question.

SHUSTER: Let's talk about the public trust. You represent of course a district in western Tennessee. What was the name of the last soldier from your district who was killed in Iraq?

MARSHA BLACKBURN: The name of the last soldier killed in Iraq from my district? I do not know.

SHUSTER: OK, his name was Jeremy Bohannon. He was killed August the ninth, 2007. How come you didn't know the name? ... I still think it's a little bit surprising that you didn't know the name of this last soldier killed in Iraq who's only 18 years old yet you do know so much about the MoveOn.org ad and the tactics you didn't like.

It now turns out that Army Private Jeremy Bohannon had not, contrary to Shuster's claim, lived in Rep. Blackburn's congressional district.

Facts - they're the only things standing between media hacks and the righteousness in which they mean to bathe.

Update: Shuster apologizes.

On Monday evening while guest-hosting the 6 p.m. evening hour, I conducted an interview with Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn. The congresswoman spoke at length about a newspaper ad that criticized General Petraeus. In what I believed was an effort to examine Representative Blackburn's priorities, I then asked her to name the last soldier from her congressional district killed in Iraq.

She responded "the name of the last soldier killed in Iraq from my district, I do not know." After that response, I identified who I believed to be that fallen soldier, a Tennessean killed in Iraq last month. But according to Pentagon documents, that young man came from a town inside a neighboring congressional district, not from Representative Blackburn's, and for that, I apologize for that mistake.

Left Wing Candor

It's not often you see it in such full blossom, but there it is.

Daily Kos
I Don't Support the Troops..oops, there, I said it
by lurxst
Wed Sep 19, 2007 at 04:27:34 PM PDT

This has been digging at me for, oh, about 4 years now. I have been hesitant to express this thought, in comments sections and in discussion with other people about the Iraq quagmire for fear of, I don't know, being called mean. Or, un-American. Or something.

Supporting the troops essentially means supporting the illegal war. It seems that us anti-war types have been doing all sorts of mental and philisophical gymnastics to try and work around this. What has emerged is a sort of low impact, mealy-mouthed common wisdom that is palatable to everyone but is ultimately going to allow us to stay in Iraq for years to come.

(HT: Little Green Footballs, which pulled a screencap in case this diary succumbs to that common Kosian scourge of Candor Evaporation Syndrome.)

When claims don't "ad" up

Moveon.org ran a full page ad in the New York Times that, amongst many other claims, asserts that General David Petraeus is a traitor.

Today, before Congress and before the American people, General Petraeus is likely to become General Betray Us.

Comparing General Petraeus and moveon.org is just silly.  Although it is worth noting that General Petraeus has served his country for the past 33 years and is the US military's foremost authority on counterinsurgency operations.  I challenge moveon.org to prove that their entire staff has more combined military service or counterinsurgency expertise than General Petraeus has.

Moveon.org first implies that he has been a bad guy for a while.

General Petraeus is a military man constantly at war with the facts. In 2004, just before the election, he said there was “tangible progress” in Iraq and that “Iraqi leaders are stepping forward.”

Yes, General Petraeus is so clearly out of touch that the Senate confirmed him in January 2007 by a vote of, wait for it, 81-0.  Not one dissenting vote.  Not only did moveon.org favorites Barack and Hillary not vote against General Petraeus, they actually voted for him.  (BTW, Senators Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Diane Feinstein, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, and Carl Levin also voted for the good General.)  Perhaps "constantly at war with the facts" were not the right words.

Surely, moveon.org made some accurate assertions in their hack job, right?

Every independent report on the ground situation in Iraq shows that the surge strategy has failed.

Now that's just disingenuous. The same report that Moveon.org cites as a source of this conclusion states, regarding the effectiveness of the surge

There are signs of encouraging tactical successes in the Baghdad capital region, which remains the epicenter of enemy focus and of their competing strategy (pg 126-7)

So in just two short months since it has been in place, the surge is succeeding in the heart of the insurgency.  This is very different from the conclusion that moveon.org reaches from the same section. 

So if this ad isn't fact based, what is behind moveon.org's attack ad?  It's either poor information or pure politics.  It would be ironic if the cause was poor information since the Jones Report, which moveon.org cites, explicitly explains the polarizing assessments of progress.

As the international media is mostly Baghdad-based, successful attacks receive disproportionate coverage relative to some very real progress achieved in other areas of the country, such as Anbar province. The result, unfortunately, is enemy momentum in the battle of strategic messaging despite the growing popular rejection of terrorist ideology in that region. The people’s outrage at al Qaeda’s savagery and their realization that it is a movement not of liberation but of occupation, has helped transform this province from being the most violent to being one of the least violent in Iraq.

Of course, politics is more likely to blame.  Regardless of their motivation, moveon.org's smear campaign is irresponsible and slanderous.  Unfortunately, moveon.org's liberal bias leaves them incapable of honoring the patriotism of General Petraeus and accepting the progress of the surge.

Update [Flip]:  Today, notwithstanding widespread rebuke of their shameless ad, MoveOn.org ups the ante, circulating this e-mail suggesting Petreaus has been lying to Congress and reminding you it's your duty in a post-9/11 world to oppose the Bush war machine.

In Memoriam

Keith Olbermann likes to close his Countdown broadcast on MSNBC with the snarky platitude "[X days since] mission accomplished in Iraq," (currently 1,594), referring to the President's speech from the USS Abraham Lincoln announcing the end of major combat operations in that country.

With the dawn of the 6th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, here's another statistic: 6,516,034 days stolen from that day's victims' lives.  Not to mention the hundreds of millions of days of grief visited on the loved ones of the nearly 3,000 victims of the day's attacks.

Those many thousands of victims aren't the only reason we persist in the struggle against Islamo-facism and other terrorist ideologies, but today they serve as a palpable reminder of what's at stake in that struggle.

Never forget.

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The list is after the jump.

World Trade Center Victims

Gordon M. Aamoth, Jr.
Edelmiro Abad
Maria Rose Abad
Andrew Anthony Abate
Vincent Abate
Laurence Christopher Abel
William F. Abrahamson
Richard Anthony Aceto
Jesus Acevedo Rescand
Heinrich Bernhard Ackermann
Paul Acquaviva
Donald LaRoy Adams
Patrick Adams
Shannon Lewis Adams
Stephen George Adams
Ignatius Udo Adanga
Christy A. Addamo
Terence E. Adderley, Jr.
Sophia Buruwad Addo
Lee Allan Adler
Daniel Thomas Afflitto
Emmanuel Akwasi Afuakwah
Alok Agarwal
Mukul Kumar Agarwala
Joseph Agnello
David Scott Agnes
Brian G. Ahearn
Jeremiah Joseph Ahern
Joanne Marie Ahladiotis
Shabbir Ahmed
Terrance Andre Aiken
Godwin Ajala
Gertrude M. Alagero
Andrew Alameno
Margaret Ann Alario
Gary M. Albero
Jon Leslie Albert
Peter Alderman
Jacquelyn Delaine Aldridge
David D. Alger
Sarah Ali-Escarcega
Ernest Alikakos
Edward L. Allegretto
Eric Allen
Joseph Ryan Allen
Richard Dennis Allen
Richard Lanard Allen
Christopher E. Allingham
Janet M. Alonso
Arturo Alva-Moreno
Anthony Alvarado
Antonio Javier Alvarez
Victoria Alvarez-Brito
Telmo E. Alvear
Cesar Amoranto Alviar
Tariq Amanullah
Angelo Amaranto
James M. Amato Joseph Amatuccio
Christopher Charles Amoroso
Kazuhiro Anai
Calixto Anaya, Jr.
Joseph Anchundia
Kermit Charles Anderson
Yvette Constance Anderson
John Andreacchio
Michael Rourke Andrews
Jean Ann Andrucki
Siew-Nya Ang
Joseph Angelini, Jr.
Joseph Angelini, Sr.
Laura Angilletta
Doreen J. Angrisani
Lorraine Antigua
Peter Paul Apollo
Faustino Apostol, Jr.
Frank Thomas Aquilino
Patrick Michael Aranyos
David Arce
Michael George Arczynski
Louis Arena
Adam P. Arias
Michael Armstrong
Jack Charles Aron
Joshua Aron
Richard Avery Aronow
Japhet Jesse Aryee
Patrick Asante
Carl Asaro
Michael Asciak
Michael Edward Asher
Janice Marie Ashley
Thomas J. Ashton
Manuel O. Asitimbay
Gregg Arthur Atlas
Gerald T. Atwood
James Audiffred
Louis Frank Aversano, Jr.
Ezra Aviles
Sandy Ayala
Arlene T. Babakitis
Eustace P. Bacchus
John J. Badagliacca
Jane Ellen Baeszler
Robert J. Baierwalter
Andrew J. Bailey
Brett T. Bailey
Tatyana Bakalinskaya
Michael S. Baksh
Sharon M. Balkcom
Michael Andrew Bane
Katherine Bantis
Gerard Baptiste
Walter Baran
Gerard A. Barbara
Paul Vincent Barbaro
James William Barbella
Ivan Kyrillos F. Barbosa
Victor Daniel Barbosa
Colleen Ann Barkow
David Michael Barkway
Matthew Barnes
Sheila Patricia Barnes
Evan J. Baron
Renee Barrett-Arjune
Nathaly Barrios La Cruz
Arthur Thaddeus Barry
Diane G. Barry
Maurice Vincent Barry
Scott D. Bart
Carlton W. Bartels
Guy Barzvi
Inna B. Basina
Alysia Basmajian
Kenneth William Basnicki
Steven Bates
Paul James Battaglia
Walter David Bauer, Jr.
Marlyn Capito Bautista
Jasper Baxter
Michele Beale
Paul Frederick Beatini
Jane S. Beatty
Lawrence Ira Beck
Manette Marie Beckles
Carl John Bedigian
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Nina Patrice Bell
Debbie Bellows
Stephen Elliot Belson
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Maria Bengochea
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Oliver Duncan Bennett
Margaret L. Benson
Dominick J. Berardi
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Steven Howard Berger
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Daniel Bergstein
Michael J. Berkeley
Donna M. Bernaerts
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William Bernstein
David M. Berray
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Joseph J. Berry
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Timothy Betterly
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Paul Beyer
Anil Tahilram Bharvaney
Bella J. Bhukhan
Shimmy D. Biegeleisen
Peter Alexander Bielfeld
William G. Biggart
Brian Bilcher
Carl Vincent Bini
Gary Eugene Bird
Joshua David Birnbaum
George John Bishop
Jeffrey Donald Bittner
Albert Balewa Blackman, Jr.
Christopher Joseph Blackwell
Susan Leigh Blair
Harry Blanding, Jr.
Janice Lee Blaney
Craig Michael Blass
Rita Blau
Richard Middleton Blood, Jr.
Michael Andrew Boccardi
John P. Bocchi
Michael Leopoldo Bocchino
Susan M. Bochino
Bruce D. Boehm
Mary Catherine Boffa
Nicholas Andrew Bogdan
Darren Christopher Bohan
Lawrence Francis Boisseau
Vincent M. Boland, Jr.
Alan Bondarenko
Andre Bonheur, Jr.
Colin Arthur Bonnett
Frank Bonomo
Yvonne Lucia Bonomo
Genieve Bonsignore, 3
Seaon Booker
Sherry Ann Bordeaux
Krystine Bordenabe
Martin Boryczewski
Richard Edward Bosco
John H. Boulton
Francisco Eligio Bourdier
Thomas Harold Bowden, Jr.
Kimberly S. Bowers
Veronique Nicole Bowers
Larry Bowman
Shawn Edward Bowman, Jr.
Kevin L. Bowser
Gary R. Box
Gennady Boyarsky
Pamela Boyce
Michael Boyle
Alfred Braca
Kevin Bracken
David Brian Brady
Alexander Braginsky
Nicholas W. Brandemarti
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Lydia E. Bravo
Ronald Michael Breitweiser
Edward A. Brennan III
Francis Henry Brennan
Michael E. Brennan
Peter Brennan
Thomas M. Brennan
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Gary Lee Bright
Jonathan Briley
Mark A. Brisman
Paul Gary Bristow
Mark Francis Broderick
Herman Charles Broghammer
Keith A. Broomfield
Ethel Brown Janice
Juloise Brown
Lloyd Stanford Brown
Patrick J. Brown
Bettina Browne
Mark Bruce
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Andrew Brunn
Vincent Brunton
Ronald Paul Bucca
Brandon J. Buchanan
Gregory Joseph Buck
Dennis Buckley
Nancy Clare Bueche
Patrick Joseph Buhse
John Edwards Bulaga, Jr.
Stephen Bunin
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William Francis Burke, Jr.
Donald J. Burns
Kathleen Anne Burns
Keith James Burns
John Patrick Burnside
Irina Buslo
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Thomas M. Butler
Patrick Byrne
Timothy G. Byrne
Jesus Neptali Cabezas
Lillian Caceres
Brian Joseph Cachia
Steven Dennis Cafiero, Jr.
Richard M. Caggiano
Cecile Marella Caguicla
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Scott Walter Cahill
Thomas Joseph Cahill
George Cain
Salvatore B. Calabro
Joseph Calandrillo
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Edward Calderon
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Dominick Enrico Calia
Felix Calixte
Frank Callahan
Liam Callahan
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Roko Camaj
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Geoffrey Thomas Campbell
Jill Marie Campbell
Robert Arthur Campbell
Sandra Patricia Campbell
Sean Thomas Canavan
John A. Candela
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Stephen J. Cangialosi
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Brian Cannizzaro
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Jonathan Neff Cappello
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Richard Michael Caproni
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Dennis M. Carey
Steve Carey
Edward Carlino
Michael Scott Carlo
David G. Carlone
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Peter Carroll
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Marcia Cecil Carter
James Marcel Cartier
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Margarito Casillas
Thomas Anthony Casoria
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Jason Michael Cefalu
Thomas Joseph Celic
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Joni Cesta
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Eli Chalouh
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Mandy Chang
Mark Lawrence Charette
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Stephen Patrick Cherry
Vernon Paul Cherry
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Swede Chevalier
Alexander H. Chiang
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Wing Wai Ching
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John Chipura
Peter A. Chirchirillo
Catherine Chirls
Kyung Hee Cho
Abul K. Chowdhury
Mohammad Salahuddin Chowdhury
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Pamela Chu
Steven Chucknick
Wai Chung
Christopher Ciafardini
Alex F. Ciccone
Frances Ann Cilente
Elaine Cillo
Edna Cintron
Nestor Andre Cintron III
Robert Dominick Cirri
Juan Pablo Cisneros-Alvarez
Benjamin Keefe Clark
Eugene Clark
Gregory Alan Clark
Mannie Leroy Clark
Thomas R. Clark
Christopher Robert Clarke
Donna Marie Clarke
Michael J. Clarke
Suria Rachel Emma Clarke
Kevin Francis Cleary
James D. Cleere
Geoffrey W. Cloud
Susan Marie Clyne
Steven Coakley
Jeffrey Alan Coale
Patricia A. Cody
Daniel Michael Coffey
Jason M. Coffey
Florence G. Cohen
Kevin Sanford Cohen
Anthony Joseph Coladonato
Mark Joseph Colaio
Stephen Colaio
Christopher M. Colasanti
Kevin Nathaniel Colbert
Michel P. Colbert
Keith E. Coleman
Scott Thomas Coleman
Tarel Coleman
Liam Joseph Colhoun
Robert D. Colin
Robert J. Coll
Jean Collin
John Michael Collins
Michael L. Collins
Thomas J. Collins
Joseph Collison
Patricia Malia Colodner
Linda M. Colon
Sol E. Colon
Ronald Edward Comer
Sandra Jolane Conaty Brace
Jaime Concepcion
Albert Conde
Denease Conley
Susan P. Conlon
Margaret Mary Conner
Cynthia Marie Lise Connolly
John E. Connolly, Jr.
James Lee Connor
Jonathan M. Connors
Kevin Patrick Connors
Kevin F. Conroy
Jose Manuel Contreras-Fernandez
Brenda E. Conway
Dennis Michael Cook
Helen D. Cook
John A. Cooper
Joseph John Coppo, Jr.
Gerard J. Coppola
Joseph Albert Corbett
Alejandro Cordero
Robert Cordice
Ruben D. Correa
Danny A. Correa-Gutierrez
James J. Corrigan
Carlos Cortes
Kevin Cosgrove
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Digna Alexandra Costanza
Charles Gregory Costello, Jr.
Michael S. Costello
Conrod K. Cottoy
Martin John Coughlan
John Gerard Coughlin
Timothy J. Coughlin
James E. Cove
Andre Cox
Frederick John Cox
James Raymond Coyle
Michele Coyle-Eulau
Anne Marie Cramer
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Denise Elizabeth Crant
James Leslie Crawford, Jr.
Robert James Crawford
Joanne Mary Cregan
Lucy Crifasi
John A. Crisci
Daniel Hal Crisman
Dennis Cross
Kevin Raymond Crotty
Thomas G. Crotty
John Crowe
Welles Remy Crowther
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John Robert Cruz
Grace Yu Cua
Kenneth John Cubas
Francisco Cruz Cubero
Richard J. Cudina
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Thomas Patrick Cullen lll
Joyce Cummings
Brian Thomas Cummins
Michael Cunningham
Robert Curatolo
Laurence Damian Curia
Paul Dario Curioli
Beverly Curry
Michael S. Curtin
Gavin Cushny
John D'Allara
Vincent Gerard D'Amadeo
Jack D'Ambrosi
Mary D'Antonio
Edward A. D'Atri
Michael D. D'Auria
Michael Jude D'Esposito
Manuel John Da Mota
Caleb Arron Dack
Carlos S. DaCosta
Joao Alberto DaFonseca Aguiar, Jr.
Thomas A. Damaskinos
Jeannine Marie Damiani-Jones
Patrick W. Danahy
Nana Danso
Vincent Danz
Dwight Donald Darcy
Elizabeth Ann Darling
Annette Andrea Dataram
Lawrence Davidson
Michael Allen Davidson
Scott Matthew Davidson
Titus Davidson
Niurka Davila
Clinton Davis
Wayne Terrial Davis
Anthony Richard Dawson
Calvin Dawson
Edward James Day
Jayceryll de Chavez
Jennifer De Jesus
Monique E. De Jesus
Nereida De Jesus
Emerita De La Pena
Azucena Maria de la Torre
David Paul De Rubbio
Jemal Legesse De Santis
Christian Louis De Simone
Melanie Louise De Vere
William Thomas Dean
Robert J. DeAngelis, Jr.
Thomas Patrick DeAngelis
Tara E. Debek
Anna Marjia DeBin
James V. Deblase
Paul DeCola
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David A. DeFeo
Manuel Del Valle, Jr.
Donald Arthur Delapenha
Vito Joseph DeLeo
Danielle Anne Delie
Joseph A. Della Pietra
Andrea DellaBella
Palmina DelliGatti
Colleen Ann Deloughery
Francis Albert DeMartini
Anthony Demas
Martin N. DeMeo
Francis Deming
Carol K. Demitz
Kevin Dennis
Thomas F. Dennis
Jean DePalma
Jose Depena
Robert John Deraney
Michael DeRienzo
Edward DeSimone III
Andrew Desperito
Cindy Ann Deuel
Jerry DeVito
Robert P. Devitt, Jr.
Dennis Lawrence Devlin
Gerard Dewan
Sulemanali Kassamali Dhanani
Patricia Florence Di Chiaro
Debra Ann Di Martino
Michael Louis Diagostino
Matthew Diaz
Nancy Diaz
Rafael Arturo Diaz
Michael A. Diaz-Piedra III
Judith Berquis Diaz-Sierra
Joseph Dermot Dickey, Jr.
Lawrence Patrick Dickinson
Michael D. Diehl
John Difato
Vincent Difazio
Carl Anthony DiFranco
Donald Difranco
Stephen Patrick Dimino
William John Dimmling
Marisa DiNardo Schorpp
Christopher M. Dincuff
Jeffrey Mark Dingle
Anthony Dionisio
George DiPasquale
Joseph Dipilato
Douglas Frank DiStefano
Ramzi A. Doany
John Joseph Doherty
Melissa C. Doi
Brendan Dolan
Neil Matthew Dollard
James Joseph Domanico
Benilda Pascua Domingo
Carlos Dominguez
Jerome Mark Patrick Dominguez
Kevin W. Donnelly
Jacqueline Donovan
Stephen Scott Dorf
Thomas Dowd
Kevin Dowdell
Mary Yolanda Dowling
Raymond Mathew Downey
Frank Joseph Doyle
Joseph Michael Doyle
Stephen Patrick Driscoll
Mirna A. Duarte
Michelle Beale Duberry
Luke A. Dudek
Christopher Michael Duffy
Gerard Duffy
Michael Joseph Duffy
Thomas W. Duffy
Antoinette Duger
Sareve Dukat
Christopher Joseph Dunne
Richard Anthony Dunstan
Patrick Thomas Dwyer
Joseph Anthony Eacobacci
John Bruce Eagleson
Robert Douglas Eaton
Dean Phillip Eberling
Margaret Ruth Echtermann
Paul Robert Eckna
Constantine Economos
Dennis Michael Edwards
Michael Hardy Edwards
Christine Egan
Lisa Egan
Martin J. Egan, Jr.
Michael Egan
Samantha Martin Egan
Carole Eggert
Lisa Caren Ehrlich
John Ernst Eichler
Eric Adam Eisenberg
Daphne Ferlinda Elder
Michael J. Elferis
Mark Joseph Ellis
Valerie Silver Ellis
Albert Alfy William Elmarry
Edgar Hendricks Emery, Jr.
Doris Suk-Yuen Eng
Christopher Epps
Ulf Ramm Ericson
Erwin L. Erker
William John Erwin
Jose Espinal
Fanny Espinoza
Bridget Ann Esposito
Francis Esposito
Michael Esposito
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Angel M. Pabon
Israel Pabon, Jr.
Roland Pacheco
Michael Benjamin Packer
Rene Padilla-Chavarria
Deepa Pakkala
Jeffrey Matthew Palazzo
Thomas Palazzo
Richard Palazzolo
Orio J. Palmer
Frank Anthony Palombo
Alan N. Palumbo
Christopher Matthew Panatier
Dominique Lisa Pandolfo
Paul J. Pansini
John M. Paolillo
Edward Joseph Papa
Salvatore T. Papasso
James Nicholas Pappageorge
Vinod Kumar Parakat
Vijayashanker Paramsothy
Nitin Parandkar
Hardai Parbhu
James Wendell Parham
Debra Marie Paris
George Paris
Gye Hyong Park
Philip Lacey Parker
Michael Alaine Parkes
Robert E. Parks, Jr.
Hashmukhrai C. Parmar
Robert Parro
Diane Marie Parsons
Leobardo Lopez Pascual
Michael Pascuma
Jerrold Paskins
Horace Robert Passananti
Suzanne H. Passaro
Avnish Ramanbhai Patel
Dipti Patel
Manish Patel
Steven Bennett Paterson
James Matthew Patrick
Manuel D. Patrocino
Bernard E. Patterson
Cira Marie Patti
Robert E. Pattison
James Robert Paul
Patrice Paz
Victor Paz-Gutierrez
Stacey Lynn Peak
Richard Allen Pearlman
Durrell V. Pearsall
Thomas Pedicini
Todd Douglas Pelino
Michel Adrian Pelletier
Anthony G. Peluso
Angel Ramon Pena
Richard Al Penny
Salvatore F. Pepe
Carl Peralta
Robert David Peraza
Jon A. Perconti
Alejo Perez
Angel Perez, Jr.
Angela Susan Perez
Anthony Perez
Ivan Perez
Nancy E. Perez
Joseph John Perroncino
Edward J. Perrotta
Emelda H. Perry
Glenn C. Perry
John William Perry
Franklin Allan Pershep
Danny Pesce
Michael John Pescherine
Davin Peterson
William Russell Peterson
Mark Petrocelli
Philip Scott Petti
Glen Kerrin Pettit
Dominick Pezzulo
Kaleen Elizabeth Pezzuti
Kevin Pfeifer
Tu-Anh Pham
Kenneth Phelan
Sneha Ann Philips
Gerard Phillips
Suzette Eugenia Piantieri
Ludwig John Picarro
Matthew M. Picerno
Joseph Oswald Pick
Christopher Pickford
Dennis J. Pierce
Bernard Pietronico
Nicholas P. Pietrunti
Theodoros Pigis
Susan Elizabeth Pinto
Joseph Piskadlo
Christopher Todd Pitman
Joshua Piver
Joseph Plumitallo
John Pocher
William Howard Pohlmann
Laurence Polatsch
Thomas H. Polhemus
Steve Pollicino
Susan M. Pollio
Joshua Iousa Poptean
Giovanna Porras
Anthony Portillo
James Edward Potorti
Daphne Pouletsos
Richard N. Poulos
Stephen Emanual Poulos
Brandon Jerome Powell
Shawn Edward Powell
Antonio Pratt
Gregory M. Preziose
Wanda Ivelisse Prince
Vincent Princiotta
Kevin Prior
Everett Martin Proctor III
Carrie Beth Progen
Sarah Prothero-Redheffer
David Lee Pruim
Richard Prunty
John Foster Puckett
Robert David Pugliese
Edward F. Pullis
Patricia Ann Puma
Hemanth Kumar Puttur
Edward R. Pykon
Christopher Quackenbush
Lars Peter Qualben
Lincoln Quappe
Beth Ann Quigley
Michael Quilty
James Francis Quinn
Ricardo J. Quinn
Carlos Quishpe-Cuaman
Carol Millicent Rabalais
Christopher Peter A. Racaniello
Leonard J. Ragaglia
Eugene Raggio
Laura Marie Ragonese-Snik
Michael Ragusa
Peter Frank Raimondi
Harry A. Raines
Ehtesham Raja
Valsa Raju
Edward Rall
Lukas Rambousek
Maria Ramirez
Harry Ramos
Vishnoo Ramsaroop
Lorenzo E. Ramzey
Alfred Todd Rancke
Adam David Rand
Jonathan C. Randall
Srinivasa Shreyas Ranganath
Anne T. Ransom
Faina Aronovna Rapoport
Robert A. Rasmussen
Amenia Rasool
Roger Mark Rasweiler
David Alan Rathkey
William Ralph Raub
Gerard P. Rauzi
Alexey Razuvaev
Gregory Reda
Michele Reed
Judith Ann Reese
Donald J. Regan
Robert M. Regan
Thomas Michael Regan
Christian Michael Otto Regenhard
Howard Reich
Gregg Reidy
James Brian Reilly
Kevin O. Reilly
Timothy E. Reilly
Joseph Reina, Jr.
Thomas Barnes Reinig
Frank Bennett Reisman
Joshua Scott Reiss
Karen Renda
John Armand Reo
Richard Cyril Rescorla
John Thomas Resta
Luis Clodoaldo Revilla
Eduvigis Reyes, Jr.
Bruce Albert Reynolds
John Frederick Rhodes
Francis Saverio Riccardelli
Rudolph N. Riccio
Ann Marie Riccoboni
David H. Rice
Eileen Mary Rice
Kenneth Frederick Rice III
Vernon Allan Richard
Claude Daniel Richards
Gregory David Richards
Michael Richards
Venesha Orintia Richards
James C. Riches
Alan Jay Richman
John M. Rigo
Theresa Risco
Rose Mary Riso
Moises N. Rivas
Joseph Rivelli
Carmen Alicia Rivera
Isaias Rivera
Juan William Rivera
Linda Ivelisse Rivera
David E. Rivers
Joseph R. Riverso
Paul V. Rizza
John Frank Rizzo
Stephen Louis Roach
Joseph Roberto
Leo Arthur Roberts
Michael Roberts
Michael Edward Roberts
Donald Walter Robertson, Jr.
Catherina Robinson
Jeffery Robinson
Michell Lee Jean Robotham
Donald A. Robson
Antonio A. Rocha
Raymond James Rocha
Laura Rockefeller
John Rodak
Antonio J. Rodrigues
Anthony Rodriguez
Carmen Milagros Rodriguez
Gregory Ernesto Rodriguez
Marsha A. Rodriguez
Mayra Valdes Rodriguez
Richard Rodriguez
David Bartolo Rodriguez-Vargas
Matthew Rogan
Karlie Barbara Rogers
Scott Williams Rohner
Keith Roma
Joseph M. Romagnolo
Efrain Romero, Sr.
Elvin Romero
Juan Romero
Orozco James A. Romito
Sean Paul Rooney
Eric Thomas Ropiteau
Aida Rosario
Angela Rosario
Wendy Alice Rosario Wakeford
Mark Rosen
Brooke David Rosenbaum
Linda Rosenbaum
Sheryl Lynn Rosenbaum
Lloyd Daniel Rosenberg
Mark Louis Rosenberg
Andrew Ira Rosenblum
Joshua M. Rosenblum
Joshua Alan Rosenthal
Richard David Rosenthal
Daniel Rosetti
Norman S. Rossinow
Nicholas P. Rossomando
Michael Craig Rothberg
Donna Marie Rothenberg
Nicholas Rowe
Timothy Alan Roy, Sr.
Paul G. Ruback
Ronald J. Ruben
Joanne Rubino
David M. Ruddle
Bart Joseph Ruggiere
Susan A. Ruggiero
Adam Keith Ruhalter
Gilbert Ruiz
Obdulio Ruiz Diaz
Stephen P. Russell
Steven Harris Russin
Michael Thomas Russo, Sr.
Wayne Alan Russo
Edward Ryan
John Joseph Ryan, Jr.
Jonathan Stephan Ryan
Matthew Lancelot Ryan
Tatiana Ryjova
Christina Sunga Ryook
Thierry Saada
Jason Elazar Sabbag
Thomas E. Sabella
Scott Saber
Joseph Francis Sacerdote
Neeraha Sadaranghgani
Mohammad Ali Sadeque
Francis John Sadocha
Jude Safi
Brock Joel Safronoff
Edward Saiya
John Patrick Salamone
Hernando Salas
Juan G. Salas
Esmerlin Antonio Salcedo
John Salvatore Salerno, Jr.
Richard L. Salinardi, Jr.
Wayne John Saloman
Nolbert Salomon
Catherine Patricia Salter
Frank Salvaterra
Paul Richard Salvio
Samuel Robert Salvo, Jr.
Rena Sam-Dinnoo
Carlos Alberto Samaniego
James Kenneth Samuel, Jr.
Michael San Phillip
Sylvia San Pio
Hugo M. Sanay
Erick Sanchez
Jacquelyn Patrice Sanchez
Eric M. Sand
Stacey Leigh Sanders
Herman S. Sandler
James Sands, Jr.
Ayleen J. Santiago
Kirsten Santiago
Maria Theresa Santillan
Susan Gayle Santo
Christopher Santora
John A. Santore
Mario L. Santoro
Rafael Humberto Santos
Rufino Conrado Flores Santos Iii
Jorge Octavio Santos Anaya
Kalyan Sarkar
Chapelle R. Sarker
Paul F. Sarle
Deepika Kumar Sattaluri
Gregory Thomas Saucedo
Susan M. Sauer
Anthony Savas
Vladimir Savinkin
Jackie Sayegh
John Michael Sbarbaro
Robert L. Scandole, Jr.
Michelle Scarpitta
Dennis Scauso
John Albert Schardt
John G. Scharf
Frederick Claude Scheffold, Jr.
Angela Susan Scheinberg
Scott Mitchell Schertzer
Sean Schielke
Steven Francis Schlag
Jon Schlissel
Karen Helene Schmidt
Ian Schneider
Thomas G. Schoales
Frank G. Schott, Jr.
Gerard Patrick Schrang
Jeffrey H. Schreier
John T. Schroeder
Susan Lee Schuler
Edward William Schunk
Mark E. Schurmeier
Clarin Shellie Schwartz
John Burkhart Schwartz
Mark Schwartz
Adriane Victoria Scibetta
Raphael Scorca
Randolph Scott
Sheila Scott
Christopher Jay Scudder
Arthur Warren Scullin
Michael Herman Seaman
Margaret M. Seeliger
Anthony Segarra
Carlos Segarra
Jason Sekzer
Matthew Carmen Sellitto
Howard Selwyn
Larry John Senko
Arturo Angelo Sereno
Frankie Serrano
Alena Sesinova
Adele Christine Sessa
Sita Nermalla Sewnarine
Karen Lynn Seymour
Davis Sezna
Thomas Joseph Sgroi
Jayesh S. Shah
Khalid M. Shahid
Mohammed Shajahan
Gary Shamay
Earl Richard Shanahan
Neil Shastri
Kathryn Anne Shatzoff
Barbara A. Shaw
Jeffrey James Shaw
Robert John Shay, Jr.
Daniel James Shea
Joseph Patrick Shea
Linda Sheehan
Hagay Shefi
John Anthony Sherry
Atsushi Shiratori
Thomas Joseph Shubert
Mark Shulman
See Wong Shum
Allan Abraham Shwartzstein
Johanna Sigmund
Dianne T. Signer
Gregory Sikorsky
Stephen Gerard Siller
David Silver
Craig A. Silverstein
Nasima Hameed Simjee
Bruce Edward Simmons
Arthur Simon
Kenneth Alan Simon
Michael J. Simon
Paul Joseph Simon
Marianne Teresa Simone
Barry Simowitz
Jeff Lyal Simpson
Khamladai Singh
Kulwant Singh
Roshan Ramesh Singh
Thomas E. Sinton III
Peter A. Siracuse
Muriel Fay Siskopoulos
Joseph Michael Sisolak
John P. Skala
Francis Joseph Skidmore, Jr.
Toyena Skinner
Paul A. Skrzypek
Christopher Paul Slattery
Vincent Robert Slavin
Robert F. Sliwak
Paul K. Sloan
Stanley S. Smagala, Jr.
Wendy L. Small
Catherine Smith
Daniel Laurence Smith
George Eric Smith
James Gregory Smith
Jeffrey R. Smith
Joyce Patricia Smith
Karl T. Smith
Keisha Smith
Kevin Joseph Smith
Leon Smith, Jr.
Moira Ann Smith
Rosemary A. Smith
Bonnie Jeanne Smithwick
Rochelle Monique Snell
Leonard J. Snyder, Jr.
Astrid Elizabeth Sohan
Sushil S. Solanki
Ruben Solares
Naomi Leah Solomon
Daniel W. Song
Michael Charles Sorresse
Fabian Soto
Timothy Patrick Soulas
Gregory Spagnoletti
Donald F. Spampinato, Jr.
Thomas Sparacio
John Anthony Spataro
Robert W. Spear, Jr.
Maynard S. Spence, Jr.
George Edward Spencer III
Robert Andrew Spencer
Mary Rubina Sperando
Tina Spicer
Frank Spinelli
William E. Spitz
Joseph Spor, Jr.
Klaus Johannes Sprockamp
Saranya Srinuan
Fitzroy St. Rose
Michael F. Stabile
Lawrence T. Stack
Timothy M. Stackpole
Richard James Stadelberger
Eric Stahlman
Gregory Stajk
Alexandru Liviu Stan
Corina Stan
Mary Domenica Stanley
Anthony Starita
Jeffrey Stark
Derek James Statkevicus
Craig William Staub
William V. Steckman
Eric Thomas Steen
William R. Steiner
Alexander Steinman
Andrew Stergiopoulos
Andrew Stern
Martha Stevens
Michael James Stewart
Richard H. Stewart, Jr.
Sanford M. Stoller
Lonny Jay Stone
Jimmy Nevill Storey
Timothy Stout
Thomas Strada
James J. Straine, Jr.
Edward W. Straub
George J. Strauch, Jr.
Edward T. Strauss
Steven R. Strauss
Steven F. Strobert
Walwyn W. Stuart, Jr.
Benjamin Suarez
David Scott Suarez
Ramon Suarez
Yoichi Sugiyama
William Christopher Sugra
Daniel Suhr
David Marc Sullins
Christopher P. Sullivan
Patrick Sullivan
Thomas Sullivan
Hilario Soriano Sumaya, Jr.
James Joseph Suozzo
Colleen Supinski
Robert Sutcliffe
Seline Sutter
Claudia Suzette Sutton
John Francis Swaine
Kristine M. Swearson
Brian Edward Sweeney
Kenneth J. Swenson
Thomas Swift
Derek Ogilvie Sword
Kevin Thomas Szocik
Gina Sztejnberg
Norbert P. Szurkowski
Harry Taback
Joann Tabeek
Norma C. Taddei
Michael Taddonio
Keiichiro Takahashi
Keiji Takahashi
Phyllis Gail Talbot
Robert Talhami
Sean Patrick Tallon
Paul Talty
Maurita Tam
Rachel Tamares
Hector Tamayo
Michael Andrew Tamuccio
Kenichiro Tanaka
Rhondelle Cheri Tankard
Michael Anthony Tanner
Dennis Gerard Taormina, Jr.
Kenneth Joseph Tarantino
Allan Tarasiewicz
Ronald Tartaro
Darryl Anthony Taylor
Donnie Brooks Taylor
Lorisa Ceylon Taylor
Michael Morgan Taylor
Paul A. Tegtmeier
Yeshauant Tembe
Anthony Tempesta
Dorothy Pearl Temple
Stanley Temple
David Tengelin
Brian John Terrenzi
Lisa M. Terry
Shell Tester
Goumatie T. Thackurdeen
Sumati Thakur
Harshad Sham Thatte
Thomas F. Theurkauf, Jr.
Lesley Anne Thomas
Brian Thomas Thompson
Clive Thompson
Glenn Thompson
Nigel Bruce Thompson
Perry A. Thompson
Vanavah Alexei Thompson
William H. Thompson
Eric Raymond Thorpe
Nichola Angela Thorpe
Sal Edward Tieri, Jr.
John p Tierney
Mary Ellen Tiesi
William R. Tieste
Kenneth Francis Tietjen
Stephen Edward Tighe
Scott Charles Timmes
Michael E. Tinley
Jennifer M. Tino
Robert Frank Tipaldi
John James Tipping II
David Tirado
Hector Luis Tirado, Jr.
Michelle Lee Titolo
John J. Tobin
Richard Todisco
Vladimir Tomasevic
Stephen Kevin Tompsett
Thomas Tong
Doris Torres
Luis Eduardo Torres
Amy Elizabeth Toyen
Christopher Michael Traina
Daniel Patrick Trant
Abdoul Karim Traore
Glenn J. Travers
Walter Philip Travers
Felicia Y. Traylor-Bass
Lisa L. Trerotola
Karamo Trerra
Michael Angel Trinidad
Francis Joseph Trombino
Gregory James Trost
William P. Tselepis
Zhanetta Valentinovna Tsoy
Michael Tucker
Lance Richard Tumulty
Ching Ping Tung
Simon James Turner
Donald Joseph Tuzio
Robert T. Twomey
Jennifer Tzemis
John G. Ueltzhoeffer
Tyler V. Ugolyn
Michael A. Uliano
Jonathan J. Uman
Anil Shivhari Umarkar
Allen V. Upton
Diane Marie Urban
John Damien Vaccacio
Bradley Hodges Vadas
Renuta Vaidea
William Valcarcel
Felix Antonio Vale
Ivan Vale
Benito Valentin
Santos Valentin, Jr.
Carlton Francis Valvo II
Erica H. Van Acker
Kenneth W. Van Auken
Richard B. Van Hine
Daniel M. Van Laere
Edward Raymond Vanacore
Jon C. Vandevander
Barrett Vanvelzer, 4
Edward Vanvelzer
Paul Herman Vanvelzer
Frederick Thomas Varacchi
Gopalakrishnan Varadhan
David Vargas
Scott C. Vasel
Azael Ismael Vasquez
Arcangel Vazquez
Santos Vazquez
Peter Anthony Vega
Sankara S. Velamuri
Jorge Velazquez
Lawrence G. Veling
Anthony Mark Ventura
David Vera
Loretta Ann Vero
Christopher James Vialonga
Matthew Gilbert Vianna
Robert Anthony Vicario
Celeste Torres Victoria
Joanna Vidal
John T. Vigiano II
Joseph Vincent Vigiano
Frank J. Vignola, Jr.
Joseph Barry Vilardo
Sergio Villanueva
Chantal Vincelli
Melissa Vincent
Francine Ann Virgilio
Lawrence Virgilio
Joseph Gerard Visciano
Joshua S. Vitale
Maria Percoco Vola
Lynette D. Vosges
Garo H. Voskerijian
Alfred Vukosa
Gregory Kamal Bruno Wachtler
Gabriela Waisman
Courtney Wainsworth Walcott
Victor Wald
Benjamin James Walker
Glen Wall
Mitchel Scott Wallace
Peter Guyder Wallace
Robert Francis Wallace
Roy Michael Wallace
Jeanmarie Wallendorf
Matthew Blake Wallens
John Wallice, Jr.
Barbara P. Walsh
James Henry Walsh
Jeffrey P. Walz
Ching Wang
Weibin Wang
Michael Warchola
Stephen Gordon Ward
James Arthur Waring
Brian G. Warner
Derrick Washington
Charles Waters
James Thomas Waters, Jr.
Patrick J. Waters
Kenneth Thomas Watson
Michael Henry Waye
Todd Christopher Weaver
Walter Edward Weaver
Nathaniel Webb
Dinah Webster
Joanne Flora Weil
Michael T. Weinberg
Steven Weinberg
Scott Jeffrey Weingard
Steven George Weinstein
Simon Weiser
David M. Weiss
David Thomas Weiss
Vincent Michael Wells
Timothy Matthew Welty
Christian Hans Rudolf Wemmers
Ssu-Hui Wen
Oleh D. Wengerchuk
Peter M. West
Whitfield West, Jr.
Meredith Lynn Whalen
Eugene Whelan
Adam S. White
Edward James White III
James Patrick White
John Sylvester White
Kenneth Wilburn White, Jr.
Leonard Anthony White
Malissa Y. White
Wayne White
Leanne Marie Whiteside
Mark P. Whitford
Michael T. Wholey
Mary Catherine Wieman
Jeffrey David Wiener
Wilham J. Wik
Alison Marie Wildman
Glenn E. Wilkenson
John C. Willett
Brian Patrick Williams
Crossley Richard Williams, Jr.
David J. Williams
Deborah Lynn Williams
Kevin Michael Williams
Louie Anthony Williams
Louis Calvin Williams III
John P. Williamson
Donna Ann Wilson
William Wilson
David Harold Winton
Glenn J. Winuk
Thomas Francis Wise
Alan L. Wisniewski
Frank Thomas Wisniewski
David Wiswall
Sigrid Wiswe
Michael Wittenstein
Christopher W. Wodenshek
Martin P. Wohlforth
Katherine Susan Wolf
Jennifer Yen Wong
Siu Cheung Wong
Yin Ping Wong
Yuk Ping Wong
Brent James Woodall
James John Woods
Patrick J. Woods
Richard Herron Woodwell
David Terence Wooley
John Bentley Works
Martin Michael Wortley
Rodney James Wotton
William Wren
John Wayne Wright
Neil Robin Wright
Sandra Lee Wright
Jupiter Yambem
Suresh Yanamadala
Matthew David Yarnell
Myrna Yaskulka
Shakila Yasmin
Olabisi Shadie Layeni Yee
William Yemele
Edward P. York
Kevin Patrick York
Raymond R. York
Suzanne Youmans
Barrington Young
Jacqueline Young
Elkin Yuen
Joseph C. Zaccoli
Adel Agayby Zakhary
Arkady Zaltsman
Edwin J. Zambrana, Jr.
Robert Alan Zampieri
Mark Zangrilli
Ira Zaslow
Kenneth Albert Zelman
Abraham J. Zelmanowitz
Martin Morales Zempoaltecatl
Zhe Zeng
Marc Scott Zeplin
Jie Yao Justin Zhao
Ivelin Ziminski
Michael Joseph Zinzi
Charles A. Zion
Julie Lynne Zipper
Salvatore Zisa
Prokopios Paul Zois
Joseph J. Zuccala
Andrew S. Zucker
Igor Zukelman 

List of Victims on American Airlines Flight 11

Anna Allison
David Lawrence Angell
Lynn Edwards Angell
Seima Aoyama 
Barbara Jean Arestegui 
Myra Joy Aronson
Christine Barbuto
Carolyn Beug
Kelly Ann Booms
Carol Marie Bouchard
Robin Lynne Kaplan
Neilie Anne Heffernan Casey
Jeffrey Dwayne Collman 
Jeffrey W. Coombs
Tara Kathleen Creamer
Thelma Cuccinello
Patrick Currivan
Brian Paul Dale
David Dimeglio 
Donald Americo Ditullio
Alberto Dominguez
Paige Marie Farley-Hackel
Alexander Milan Filipov
Carol Ann Flyzik
Paul J. Friedman
Karleton D.B. Fyfe
Peter Alan Gay 
Linda M. George
Edmund Glazer 
Lisa Reinhart Gordenstein
Andrew Peter Charles Curry Green
Peter Paul Hashem
Robert Jay Hayes
Edward R. Hennessy, Jr.
John A. Hofer
Cora Hidalgo Holland
John Nicholas Humber, Jr.
Waleed Joseph Iskandar
John Charles Jenkins
Charles Edward Jones
Barbara A. Keating
David P. Kovalcin
Judith Camilla Larocque 
Natalie Janis Lasden
Daniel John Lee 
Daniel M. Lewin
Sara Elizabeth Low
Susan A. Mackay
Karen Ann Martin
Thomas F. McGuinness, Jr.
Christopher D. Mello
Jeffrey Peter Mladenik
Carlos Alberto Montoya
Antonio Jesus Montoya Valdes
Laura Lee Morabito
Mildred Naiman
Laurie Ann Neira
Renee Lucille Newell
Kathleen Ann Nicosia
Jacqueline June Norton
Robert Grant Norton
John Ogonowski 
Betty Ann Ong
Jane M. Orth
Thomas Nicholas Pecorelli
Berinthia B. Perkins
Sonia M. Puopolo
David E. Retik
Jean Destrehan Roger
Philip Martin Rosenzweig 
Richard Barry Ross
Jessica Leigh Sachs
Rahma Salie
Heather Lee Smith
Dianne Bullis Snyder
Douglas Joel Stone
Xavier Suarez
Madeline Amy Sweeney 
Michael Theodoridis
James Anthony Trentini
Mary Barbara Trentini
Pendyala Vamsikrishna
Mary Alice Wahlstrom
Kenneth Waldie
John Joseph Wenckus
Candace Lee Williams
Christopher Rudolph Zarba, Jr.

List of Victims on United Airlines Flight 175

Alona Abraham
Garnet Edward Bailey
Mark Lawrence Bavis
Graham Andrew Berkeley
Touri Bolourchi
Klaus Bothe
Daniel Raymond Brandhorst
David Reed Gamboa Brandhorst
John Brett Cahill 
Christoffer Mikael Carstanjen
John J. Corcoran III
Dorothy Alma de Araujo
Ana Gloria Pocasangre Debarrera
Robert John Fangman
Lisa Anne Frost
Ronald Gamboa 
Lynn Catherine Goodchild
Peter M. Goodrich
Douglas Alan Gowell
Francis Edward Grogan 
Carl Max Hammond, Jr.
Christine Lee Hanson
Peter Burton Hanson
Susan Kim Hanson
Gerald Francis Hardacre
Eric Hartono
James Edward Hayden
Herbert Wilson Homer
Michael Robert Horrocks
Robert Adrien Jalbert
Amy N. Jarret
Ralph Kershaw 
Heinrich Kimmig 
Amy R. King
Brian Kinney
Kathryn L. LaBorie
Robert G. Leblanc
Maclovio Lopez, Jr.
Marianne Macfarlane
Alfred Gilles Marchand
Louis Mariani
Juliana McCourt
Ruth Magdaline McCourt
Wolfgang Peter Menzel
Shawn M. Nassaney
Marie Pappalardo
Patrick J. Quigley IV
Frederick Charles Rimmele III
James Roux
Jesus Sanchez 
Victor J. Saracini
Mary Kathleen Shearer
Robert M. Shearer
Jane Louise Simpkin
Brian David Sweeney
Michael C. Tarrou
Alicia N. Titus
Timothy Ray Ward
William Michael Weems

List of Victims at the Pentagon (Not Including Flight 77)
Note: USA - United Stated Army; USN - United States Navy

SPC Craig S. Amundson, USA
YN3 Melissa Rose Barnes, USN
MSG Max J. Beilke, Retired
IT2 Kris Romeo Bishundat, USN
Carrie R. Blagburn
COL Canfield D. Boone, ARNG
Donna M. Bowen
Allen P. Boyle
ET3 Christopher L. Burford, USN
ET3 Daniel M. Caballero, USN
SFC Jose O. Calderon-Olmedo, USA
Angelene C. Carter
Sharon A. Carver
SFC John J. Chada, USA, Retired
Rosa Maria Chapa
Julian T. Cooper
LCDR Eric A. Cranford, USN
Ada M. Davis
CAPT Gerald F. DeConto, USN
LTC Jerry D. Dickerson, USA
IT1 Johnnie Doctor, Jr., USN
CAPT Robert E. Dolan, Jr., USN
CDR William H. Donovan, USN
CDR Patrick Dunn, USN
AG1 Edward T. Earhart, USN
LCDR Robert R. Elseth, USNR
SK3 Jamie L. Fallon, USN
Amelia V. Fields
Gerald P. Fisher
AG2 Matthew M. Flocco, USN
Sandra N. Foster
CAPT Lawrence D. Getzfred, USN
Cortez Ghee
Brenda C. Gibson
COL Ronald F. Golinski, USA, Retired
Diane Hale-McKinzy
Carolyn B. Halmon
Sheila M.S. Hein
ET1 Ronald J. Hemenway, USN
MAJ Wallace Cole Hogan, Jr., USA
SSG Jimmie I. Holley, USA, Retired
Angela M. Houtz
Brady Kay Howell
Peggie M. Hurt
LTC Stephen N. Hyland, Jr., USA
Lt Col Robert J. Hymel, USAF, Retired
SGM Lacey B. Ivory, USA
LTC Dennis M. Johnson, USA
Judith L. Jones
Brenda Kegler
LT Michael S. Lamana, USN
David W. Laychak
Samantha L. Lightbourn-Allen
MAJ Stephen V. Long, USA
James T. Lynch, Jr.
Terence M. Lynch
OS2 Nehamon Lyons IV, USN
Shelley A. Marshall
Teresa M. Martin
Ada L. Mason-Acker
LTC Dean E. Mattson, USA
LTG Timothy J. Maude, USA
Robert J. Maxwell
Molly L. McKenzie
Patricia E. Mickley
MAJ Ronald D. Milam, USA
Gerard P. Moran, Jr.
Odessa V. Morris
ET1 Brian A. Moss, USN
Teddington H. Moy
LCDR Patrick J. Murphy, USNR
Khang Ngoc Nguyen
DM2 Michael A. Noeth, USN
Ruben S. Ornedo
Diana B. Padro
LT Jonas M. Panik, USNR
MAJ Clifford L. Patterson, Jr., USA
LT Darin H. Pontell, USNR
Scott Powell
CAPT Jack D. Punches, USN, Retired
AW1 Joseph J. Pycior, Jr., USN
Deborah A. Ramsaur
Rhonda Sue Rasmussen
IT1 Marsha D. Ratchford, USN
Martha M. Reszke
Cecelia E. (Lawson) Richard
Edward V. Rowenhorst
Judy Rowlett
SGM Robert E. Russell, USA, Retired
CW4 William R. Ruth, ARNG
Charles E. Sabin, Sr.
Marjorie C. Salamone
COL David M. Scales, USA
CDR Robert A. Schlegel, USN
Janice M. Scott
LTC Michael L. Selves, USA, Retired
Marian H. Serva
CDR Dan F. Shanower, USN
Antionette M. Sherman
Diane M. Simmons
Cheryle D. Sincock
ITC Gregg H. Smallwood, USN
LTC Gary F. Smith, USA, Retired
Patricia J. Statz
Edna L. Stephens
SGM Larry L. Strickland, USA
LTC Kip P. Taylor, USA
Sandra C. Taylor
LTC Karl W. Teepe, USA, Retired
SGT Tamara C. Thurman, USA
LCDR Otis V. Tolbert, USN
SSG Willie Q. Troy, USA, Retired
LCDR Ronald J. Vauk, USNR
LTC Karen J. Wagner, USA
Meta L. (Fuller) Waller
SPC Chin Sun Pak Wells, USA
SSG Maudlyn A. White, USA
Sandra L. White
Ernest M. Willcher
LCDR David L. Williams, USN
MAJ Dwayne Williams, USA
RMC Marvin Roger Woods, USN, Retired
IT2 Kevin W. Yokum, USN
ITC Donald M. Young, USN
Edmond G. Young, Jr.
Lisa L. Young   

List of Victims on American Airlines Flight 77

Paul W. Ambrose
Yeneneh Betru
Mary Jane Booth
Bernard C. Brown, II
CAPT Charles F. Burlingame III, USNR, Retired
Suzanne M. Calley
William E. Caswell
David M. Charlebois
Sarah M. Clark
Asia S. Cottom
James D. Debeuneure
Rodney Dickens
Eddie A. Dillard
LCDR Charles A. Droz III, USN, Retired
Barbara G. Edwards
Charles S. Falkenberg
Dana Falkenberg
Zoe Falkenberg
J. Joseph Ferguson
Darlene E. Flagg
RADM Wilson F. Flagg, USNR, Retired
1stLt Richard P. Gabriel, USMC, Retired
Ian J. Gray
Stanley R. Hall
Michele M. Heidenberger
Bryan C. Jack
Steven D. Jacoby
Ann C. Judge
Chandler R. Keller
Yvonne E. Kennedy
Norma Cruz Khan
Karen Ann Kincaid
Dong Chul Lee
Jennifer Lewis
Kenneth E. Lewis
Renee A. May
Dora Marie Menchaca
Christopher C. Newton
Barbara K. Olson
Ruben S. Ornedo
Robert Penninger
Robert R. Ploger III
Zandra F. Ploger
Lisa J. Raines
Todd H. Reuben
John P. Sammartino
George W. Simmons
Donald D. Simmons
Mari-Rae Sopper
Robert Speisman
Norma Lang Steuerle
Hilda E. Taylor
Leonard E. Taylor
Sandra D. Teague
Leslie A. Whittington
CAPT John D. Yamnicky, Sr., USN, Retired
Vicki Yancey
Shuyin Yang
Yuguag Zheng

List of Victims on United Airlines Flight 93

Christian Adams
Lorraine G. Bay
Todd Beamer
Alan Beaven
Mark K. Bingham
Deora Frances Bodley
Sandra W. Bradshaw
Marion Britton
Thomas E. Burnett Jr.
William Cashman
Georgine Rose Corrigan
Patricia Cushing
Jason Dahl
Joseph Deluca
Patrick Driscoll
Edward Porter Felt
Jane C. Folger
Colleen Fraser
Andrew Garcia
Jeremy Glick
Lauren Grandcolas
Wanda A. Green
Donald F. Greene
Linda Gronlund
Richard Guadagno
Leroy Homer, Jr.
Toshiya Kuge
CeeCee Lyles
Hilda Marcin
Waleska Martinez
Nicole Miller
Louis J. Nacke, II
Donald Arthur Peterson
Jean Hoadley Peterson
Mark Rothenberg
Christine Snyder
John Talignani
Honor Elizabeth Wainio
Deborah Ann Jacobs Welsh
Kristin Gould White

Bias: It's Not Just For News Desks Anymore

It's now all the rage in the ad sales office too.

[Freedom's Watch's] commercials are well done, and convey the simple message that the Iraq war is important and winnable, and that we should allow our troops to see the mission through.
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Freedom's Watch has placed its ads on Fox and CNN, but CNBC and MSNBC have refused to run the ads. ... Freedom's Watch has written to CNBC and MSNBC to protest their decision; here is the text of that letter:

John Kelly Senior Vice-President of NBC News Network Sales
30 Rockefeller Plaza
12th Floor
New York, NY  10112

Dear Mr. Kelly,

We understand that MSNBC and CNBC (the “Networks”) are refusing to sell advertising time to Freedom’s Watch (“FW”) to air a series of educational advertisements. It is our understanding that the purported basis for the denial is a Network policy denying access to groups that wish to sponsor advertising on controversial issues of public importance.

Given your recent history of airing such ads (see below), we must wonder if your denial to FW is a subjective decision because the network officials disagree with the FW ads’ message?
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For example, the Networks aired an advertisement entitled “Shameless Politicians” sponsored by Move America Forward regarding the war on terror in October 2004. In November 2006, the Networks aired advertisements sponsored by the American Medical Association entitled “Patient Voice” concerning the controversial issue of access to health care and coverage for the uninsured. During July 2007, the Networks aired advertisements sponsored by the Save Darfur Coalition. Your history of airing other issue advocacy advertisements makes the denial of FW advertisements troubling and raises the issue of whether your denial is based on an editorial disagreement with FW's message.

AFP: Fake, But Tear-Jerking

I smell a Pulitzer.

An Inconvenient "Smidgen Of Truth"

Fake and inaccurate?  Dan Rather, Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass, eat your fabulist hearts out.

Update:  Per Mark Steyn, Beauchamp is worse than Glass.  (HT: Ace)

Photo of the Day

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The New Republic Box Set

New Republic Pictures is proud to release this special edition box set, featuring the 2003 modern classic Shattered Glass and this never-before-released, straight-to-DVD follow-up film Doubting Thomas.

It's another whimsical journalistic romp, following the misadventures of Scott Thomas Beauchamp from the front lines in Baghdad to the fast and loose editorial desks of one of the nation's most famously compromised opinion magazines!

Romance!  Pseudonyms!  Perfunctory fact-checking!

Inspired by the mostly true story still being pieced together!

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Misrepresentatives

Tonight, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will force senators to hang around throughout the night for another installment of "Democrat Political Theater."  In case you're not convinced of the theatrics, consider that no news outlet thinks sufficient votes exist for cloture, and

Later Tuesday evening, Senate Democrats, along with anti-war groups such as Americans United for Change and Moveon.org, planned to hold a candlelight ceremony in the upper Senate park.

I have heard Senators Reid (D-NV), Durbin (D-IL), and Boxer (D-CA) justify this futile session by claiming that the troops deserve this debate.   

As a military member and Pentagon resident, I can unequivocally say that the Democrats are routinely misrepresenting the views and wishes of our service men and women.   Iraq is a persistent topic in the building, and I participate in frank discussions on the subject everyday.  The vast majority of service members believe the outcome in Iraq is far from decided.  They have seen the progress there and want time to make sure it remains.

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[Flip added]:  Update:   Michelle Malkin liveblogged/is continuing to liveblog both the sleepover and the awkward morning after.

John E'wards: Magically Boring!

Newsbusters blows the lid off a curious segment from this morning's "Good Morning America" on ABC.  Johnny Coiffeur was laying out his bold Iraq withdrawal plan, which - perhaps due to its very boldness - promptly lulled the man behind him to sleep.  One minute later, the man vanishes.

NB suspects ABC may have shooed the snoozer away while they cut to another camera, lest their viewers get the impression that Edwards may be an uninspiring dullard.

Me, I prefer to think the slumberous fellow was whisked away (Langoliers-style) to that other America, where all haircuts cost $1,250 and the "slummy" folks next door never deign "scare" their more aristocratic neighbors.

That, or heaved into the back alley behind the studio, at the hands of Silky-loyal GMA producers.  Either way, he's in a better place.

"Millions" of Peaceniks Pledge To Reduce Surrender-Stumping By 97%

Finally, a little peace and quiet.

Iraq Moratorium
The Pledge!

I hereby make a commitment that on Friday September 21 & the Third Friday of every subsequent month, I will break my daily routine and take some action, by myself or with others, to end the War in Iraq.

I wouldn't have guessed that millions (or - to be precise - 1,152 at time of post) of war protesters would be inclined to or capable of going 29 days without agitating for failure.  But if that's to be the new daily routine, broken only on Third Fridays, it'll mark a drastic adjustment for the forfeiture hardliners, forced to squeeze a month's worth of pent-up defeatism and paranoid imperial fantasies into a single day of righteous caterwauling.

And what a busy day it'll be, what with all that month-long repressed indignation and so many hackneyed ways to display it. 

Join with millions (sic) to:

• Wear and distribute black ribbons and armbands
• Buy no gas on Moratorium days
• Pressure politicians and the media
• Hold vigils, pickets, rallies, and teach-ins
• Hold special religious services
• Coordinate events in music, art, and culture
• Host film showings, talks, and educational events
• Organize student actions: Teach-ins, school closings, etc.

What, no fasting?  Nothing effects societal change like fasting.  Particularly if supplemented with breath-holding and foot-stamping.  C'mon, it's once a month.  If you're going to throw a million-man tantrum, you may as well commit to it.

Bizarro 2007: The World Without a Dethroned, Deposed, Deceased Saddam Hussein

From WSJ's Opinion Journal:

Given the problems and U.S. casualties in Iraq, polls show a large majority of the American people believe the invasion of Iraq was a mistake. Yet if we imagine what the world would look like today if Saddam Hussein had not been deposed, it seems clear that almost no outcome in Iraq would be as adverse to the interests of the United States as today's world with Saddam still in power.
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So, while we are justifiably dismayed about what is happening today in Iraq, we should not allow this to obscure the central point--that the world is a better and safer place because Saddam is out of power.  Looked at this way, we have already achieved a lot; what remains now--as the president and John McCain have said--is to steady ourselves and see it through.

The "We'd be worse off with Saddam still in power" argument is sound and meaningful and, at this point, well enough worn that it's been rendered rhetorically hollow.  But the linked op-ed by Peter Wallison, entitled "What We Pre-Empted", steps through the hypothetical implications of this nightmarish "counter-factual" in logical and uncommonly visceral fashion.

Excerpted above is merely Wallison's hypothesis.  The "..." represents a 6-paragraph thought experiment about where the world would be, had the U.S. Congress not authorized the liberation of the Iraqi people.  It's worth a read.

There but by the grace of 71% of the House and Senate go we.

For those of you keeping score at home, the only top tier Presidential candidate with a Senatorial pedigree who either voted against the force authorization (or wasn't eligible to cast such a vote but claims he would have) is Barack Obama.  Despite their rhetoric, Hillary Clinton and John E'wards (now ruefully) cast the correct vote.  Obama must count himself lucky to be such a newbie that he wasn't around when our country recognized the grave global threat posed by Saddam Hussein and summoned the stoutheartedness to act.

That said, other than McCain, no GOP frontrunners carry Congressional pedigrees, so they're free to invent hypothetical retroactive votes Obama-style.  But since Rudy, Mitt, and Fred remain avowed supporters of our mission in Iraq, these other A-list Republican contenders have no motive to wax dovishly nuanced in reaction to waning public support for the war.  As such, they offer no dissonance between their voting records and their current war stances.

Thus, as the singularly pseudo-credible original war opposer among the frontrunners, Obama finds himself alone in the improbably lauded position of favoring Wallison's hypothetical dystopia.

Arrowhead Ripper: Day 3

The latest on the Battle for Baqubah, courtesy of Michael Yon, who reports that we're continuing to rout the bad guys ("Al Qaeda is about to be strangled and pummeled to death in this town," is how he puts it), notwithstanding what he sees as a serious lack of capable Iraqi commanders in the region.

The combat in Baqubah should soon reach a peak. Al Qaeda seems to have been effectively isolated. The initial attack on 19 June achieved enough surprise that al Qaeda was caught off guard and trapped. They have been beaten back mostly into pockets and are surrounded and will be dealt with. Part of this is actually due to the capability of Strykers. We were able to “attack from the march.” In other words, a huge force drove in from places like Baghdad and quickly locked down Baqubah.

The whole dispatch is worth a read, as real-time coverage of this major military campaign continues to be unavailable anywhere else.

Quote Of the Day

Quoting Allahpundit, quoting Joe Klein, quoting Lt. Col. Bruce Antonia, quoting a Sunni insurgent:

One guy said to me, ‘We fought against you because you invaded our country and you’re infidels. But you treat us with more dignity than al-Qaeda,’ and he said they’d continue to work with us. I’ve been involved in many operations here and this is a first—usually everybody’s shooting at us. This is the first time we’ve had any of them on our side.

Allah has a great round-up of embedded coverage of the first day of the massive and perhaps highly pivotal Operation Arrowhead Ripper, including Michael Yon's latest, whose level of access and quality of coverage continue to astound.

Yon's Thoughts "On the Eve Of a Great Battle"

Michael Yon's latest post from the front lines suggests a palpable Petraeus-induced inflection point in his perception of the war.  He details a "remarkable turnaround" in some of the most troubled areas since Petraeus took over.

Yon also discusses the unfolding of a major new initiative.

By the time these words are released, we will be in combat. Few ears have heard even rumors of this battle, and fewer still are the eyes that will see its full scope. Even now—the battle has already begun for some—practically no news about it is flowing home. I’ve known of the secret plans for about a month, but have remained silent.

This campaign is actually a series of carefully orchestrated battalion and brigade sized battles. Collectively, it is probably the largest battle since “major hostilities” ended more than four years ago. Even the media here on the ground do not seem to have sensed its scale.

Strong Like Bull

If the stock market were to finish today's session at its current level, it'll mark the largest 3-day gain in the Dow (nearly 400 points) in more than four years.

Draw your own conclusions from this fun fact:  The last time the blue chips notched up such a strong triple session gain was March 17-19th, 2003 (405 points), which paralleled Saddam's unmet 48-hour exit deadline and the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The Taxonomy of Harry Reid

It may come as little shock that the most unwaveringly fatalistic naysayer in the U.S. Senate is finding fault among our military leaders, but you have to credit Reid for really committing to his ever-darkening despondency by labeling both Generals Pace and Petraeus "incompetent".  (The same General Petraeus Reid voted to confirm a few months ago.)

With this news coming just a day after the Senate Majority Leader's most recent insistence on American military failure, it begs the question: Exactly what breed of pathological pessimist is Harry Reid?

Put otherwise, which of pop culture's wettest blankets does Harry take after?

A)  Oscar the Grouch
B)  Eeyore
C)  Marvin the Depressed Robot
D)  Debbie Downer
E)  Davey's mopey dog Goliath

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Update:  Yipes, the poll widget was wreaking all kinds of havoc with the page formatting, so I've scrapped it.  Cast your vote in the comments instead.

Reid's Courtship of Failure Bordering On Lurid, Tawdry

Do you ever get the feeling that if Harry Reid were to coach a youth soccer league, not only would he forfeit most of the games, but he would typically do so even before all of his kids were assembled on the field?

Me too.

Top US congressional Democrats bluntly told President George W. Bush Wednesday that his Iraq troop "surge" policy was a failure.

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi challenged the president over Iraq by sending him a letter, ahead of a White House meeting later on Wednesday.

"As many had forseen, the escalation has failed to produce the intended results," the two leaders wrote.

I will say this for Reid and Pelosi.  Their precognitive abilities are extraordinary, seeing as General Petreaus won't even have an assessment of the surge's efficacy for another three months.

VA Tech Obscures the REAL Horrors Before Us

Well, well, well...

How *convenient* for the Bush Administration.  Turns out not only is the Baghdad surge demonstrably hopeless, but our reverence of the unholy massacre at Virginia Tech is merely a grotesque opportunity to mask our national incompetence.

It's officially time to cast aside all preliminary suggestions that the surge (even in advance of its full implementation) is working (as foolishly noted in this post, that post, and that other post).

To this end, the Kossacks are courageously maintaining their fatalist vigil to assure you, gentle reader, that while you've been distracted by the sorrowful Virginia Tech tragedy and the Supreme Court's ruling against partial birth abortions, Baghdad is quickly becoming a lost cause.

Let us solemnly behold this disquieting pouncing on today's difficult news from the front, and recognize it as the singularly definitive indictment of America's foolhardy and bloodthirsty troop surge that it is.

Presented, then, without any discernible hint of irony (hint: you can always pick out the involuntary irony by the overlain boldface) is this missive from the leftward fringe:

Between the horror in Virginia, the hideous decision of the Supreme Court, the ongoing outrage over the US attorneys, and half a dozen other scandals underway, it's understandable that Americans are a bit distracted today.  It may not be making the top of today's news, but Baghdad is exploding.
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For the last few weeks, the Bush administration has twisted every possible statistic to try and extract some shadow of "progress," but today's violence should put to rest any theory that the massive escalation of US forces is the solution. 

U.S. officials have reported a decrease in sectarian killings in Baghdad since the U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown was launched Feb. 14. But the past week has seen several spectacular attacks in the capital, including a suicide bombing inside parliament and a powerful blast that collapsed a landmark bridge across the Tigris River. The number of bodies dumped in the streets of Baghdad also has risen significantly.

Em... right.  Weeks' worth of notable - if preliminary - signs of surprisingly rapid progress are hereby cast asunder as mere twistings of "every possible statistic" (however numerous), that we may make way for the fatalism served up to sate our most blindly cynical of sensibilities.

Previously:
The Surge Is Still Working
Pesky Numbers Say the Surge Is Working
The Surge Is Working

And Now Deep Thoughts, by Code Pink

*Beceause boys enjoy playing with toy soldiers, all war is childishly motivated and therefore unjustified.*

That's the distilled entirety of the utterly illogical subtext of this insipid anti-war ad from the Sheehanistas.

If only these gals were around in the 18th Century, the span of American history might've been spared the indiginites wrought by the juvenile bloodlust of our founding man-children.

Hat tip to Allah, who notes:

You can’t expect profundity in half a minute, but a little originality would be welcome; what you’re getting here instead is the thousandth iteration of a meme that’s been popular in anti-war thinking since toy soldiers were invented.

GOP Leadership To Pelosi: Vacation Time Is Over, Get Back To Work

Busied by overstepping her legislative bounds on overseas travel, Nancy Pelosi's neglect of the critical business she's charged with handling hasn't gone unnoticed among her colleagues.  As printed on Drudge, Senate and House Republican leadership sent the Speaker the following letter this morning (emphasis mine):

Dear Speaker Pelosi:

We are writing to urge you to call the House back into session immediately so that Congress can finish its work on the emergency legislation to fund the Global War on Terrorism. This funding request has been pending since February 5, but your leadership team chose to leave town for more than two weeks rather than completing this bill. As a result, our troops have been put at risk.

We are especially troubled by the House's failure to appoint conferees. The Senate appointed conferees on March 29, moments after passing its bill, but the House never did so despite passing the bill a week earlier. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Senate that he hoped the House-Senate conference would begin on March 30. That hoped-for progress has been thwarted by your failure to act.

It should go without saying that our military leaders are in the best position to know the needs of our troops, and they have left no doubt that this funding is needed urgently. General Peter Schoomaker, United States Army Chief of Staff, has written that, "without approval of the supplemental funds in April, we will be forced to take increasingly draconian measures which will impact Army readiness and impose hardships on our Soldiers and their families." Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has also emphasized the dangers of delay: "This kind of disruption to key programs will have a genuinely adverse effect on the readiness of the Army and the quality of life for soldiers and their families."

Our troops need this funding, and they need it soon. The Senate is in session and ready to work. We respectfully request that you cancel the remainder of your break, call the House back into session, appoint conferees promptly, and work in good faith to pass a clean supplemental funding bill that the President can sign as soon as possible. Every day we don't fund our troops is a day their ability to fight this war is weakened.

Just the Facts

Next week, Congress will begin reconciling the language for the controversial Iraq funding bill, which calls for a timetable for US troop withdrawal.  President Bush has promised to veto the bill, setting up a potential push by Democrats for a Congressional override. 

This debate has been heated and fraught with politics.  Democrats, plenty of which have supported several previous iterations of supplemental war funding, are starting to position themselves for the 2008 Presidential and Congressional elections.  With this highly sensitive subject of a timetable, it is increasingly important to have dispassionate facts about the situation on the ground. 

Retired Army four-star General Barry McCaffrey recently published an assessment of Iraq.  This report is concise and brutally candid.  If you are inclined to think this is a biased assessment by a career soldier, check out his conclusions on the state of affairs. 

Iraq is ripped by a low grade civil war which has worsened to catastrophic levels with as many as 3000 citizens murdered per month. The population is in despair. Life in many of the urban areas is now desperate.

The Maliki government has little credibility among the Shia populations from which it emerged.  It is despised by the Sunni as a Persian surrogate. It is believed untrustworthy and incompetent by the Kurds.

There is no function of government that operates effectively across the nation....There is no province in the country in which the government has dominance.

We are at the “knee of the curve.” Two million+ troops of the smallest active Army force since WWII have served in the war zone. Some active units have served three, four, or even five combat deployments. We are now routinely extending nearly all combat units in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The current deployment requirement of 20+ brigades to Iraq and 2+ brigades in Afghanistan is not sustainable.

The US Armed Forces are in a position of strategic peril. A disaster in Iraq will in all likelihood result in a widened regional struggle which will endanger America’s strategic interests (oil) in the Mid-east for a generation.

Have you read a more honest and fair assessment of Iraq?  While these observations are not surprising to Americans, I am certainly appreciative that the military recognizes the grim conditions and the urgency of the situation.  But what I find especially intriguing is his assessment of our chances of success.

Since the arrival of General David Petraeus in command of Multi-National Force Iraq--- the situation on the ground has clearly and measurably improved.

The Maliki government has given the green light to prune out elements of the renegade Sadr organization in Baghdad. More than 600+ rogue leaders have been harvested by US and Iraqi special operations forces with the explicit or tacit consent of the government.

There is a real and growing ground swell of Sunni tribal opposition to the Al Qaeda-in-Iraq terror formations. (90% Iraqi.) This counter-Al Qaeda movement in Anbar Province was fostered by brilliant US Marine leadership. There is now unmistakable evidence that the western Sunni tribes are increasingly convinced that they blundered badly by sitting out the political process. They are also keenly aware of the fragility of the continued US military presence that stands between them and a vengeful and overwhelming Shia-Kurdish majority class---which was brutally treated by Saddam and his cruel regime.

The equipment and resources for the Iraqi Security Forces has increased dramatically.  PM Maliki has pushed to create a larger security force of more than 100,000 Iraqi Army troops.

There are encouraging signs that the peace and participation message does resonate with many of the more moderate Sunni and Shia warring factions.

In my judgment, we can still achieve our objective of: a stable Iraq, at peace with its neighbors, not producing weapons of mass destruction, and fully committed to a law-based government.

There is no doubt that Iraq is presently a quagmire, but clearly there is still a considerable chance of achieving our objectives.  As long as there is a good chance of succeeding, it is inappropriate to set a deadline for withdrawal.

The Surge Is Still Working

Cautious optimists have become increasingly (if ever cautiously) aware that the President's troop surge has been throwing off early indications of success.  Some quick Technorati vanity searching reminds me that it was fully 17 and 24 days ago days ago that these early hints of efficacy were bubbling forth enough to cause me to take notice.

As of today, though, it seems that acknowledgment of these signs of progress has taken a broad leap into the mainstream of duly sanctioned, editorial and journalistic wisdom.  For so entrenched an old-line media outlet as ABC News to produce so objective and candid an assessment of the surge's positive impact as this video report strikes me as the MSM equivalent of Baghdad Bob acknowledging the fall of Baghdad.

Among the scenes:  Iraqi families riding rides at an amusement park in central Baghdad, babies reaching out to passing balloonmongers, a girl in a floral dress kicking a ball down the street...  It's looks like the Baghdad that Michael Moore tells us existed before we imperialists rode into town to butcher everyone.

Kudos to ABC News and Terry McCarthy.

(HT: Wizbang)

Previously:
Pesky Numbers Say the Surge Is Working
The Surge Is Working