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The Observer Journal - Observation Leading to Insight: Monthly Archives for August 2007

Clinton Comatose, Causes Cataclysm – Closing Chapter - OBITUARY for the OBSERVER

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, August 23, 2007 1:39 AM | Add Comment

"It's working. We're just years too late in changing our tactics," Hillary Rodham Clinton said.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, August 22, 2007 1:54 AM | Add Comment

Better US strategy and better war fighting stifles Senate Leftists. Washington Post offers blatant democrat politics in key article – “Senator Calls for Maliki's Ouster” – WP omits - Democrat Senators, one by one, change tune on Iraq war.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:08 AM | Add Comment

It takes a lot more integrity, character, and courage to be a conservative than it does to be a liberal. That's because at its most basic level, liberalism is nothing more than childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, August 20, 2007 12:06 AM | Add Comment

The Marines went briefly inside the rooms, looking but not touching anything while the man stood by, the Iraqi police near him. He seemed somehow reassured by the Iraqi police presence. “Ask him if he’s seen any people around here”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Sunday, August 19, 2007 1:06 AM | Add Comment

Prime Minister Nouri Maliki in Tikrit! Maliki in Saddam Hussein’s hometown for POLITICAL talks with Sunni tribal leaders! In other headlines – “Pigs Flying Past the 50th Floor of the Observer Office Tower” “Democrats Deny Pigs Exist.”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, August 18, 2007 2:28 AM | Add Comment

"When this lamentable war is over, fought with such malfeasance, the real heroes will not be Gen. Marshall, Secretary Stimson, or yes-men like Gen Eisenhower, but courageous mavericks such as a Charles Lindbergh or Senator Robert Taft, who long ago warned

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, August 17, 2007 2:26 PM | Add Comment

Back in the good old days of 2003 and 2004, long before anyone was thinking “surge” or “counter-insurgency”, were the good generals focused on – “Club Med Baghdad” and “Club Med Balad”?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, August 17, 2007 1:21 AM | Add Comment

“Those old pictures of Camp X-Ray, coupled with memories of criminal acts committed by a few individuals at other detention facilities, tinge the public’s impressions of Guantanamo Bay,” said Morris D. Davis

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, August 16, 2007 1:17 AM | Add Comment

How to explain Guantanamo to your children and democrat friends -

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:46 AM | Add Comment

No balloons - children might be allergic to latex. "At this rate I will have no act left. Things are going from crazy to ridiculous," said Barney Baloney, a British clown, from Sheffield England

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:30 PM | Add Comment

"I think it makes sense to certainly consider a return to the military draft, and I can tell you, this has always been an option on the table," said Lieutenant General Douglas Lute, White House deputy national security adviser.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, August 14, 2007 1:30 AM | Add Comment

''Persians and Safawis (Safawis is Sunni slang for Shiites living in Iran) are on the brink of total control in Baghdad. They will soon attack all (Sunni Arab governments) across the Middle East.” said Adnan Al Dulaimi

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, August 13, 2007 1:20 AM | Add Comment

Abu Lwat, an Iraqi Sunni who fought with the 1920 group said, “al-Qaeda killed the life here.”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Sunday, August 12, 2007 1:16 AM | Add Comment

BRAD WARTHEN - Editorial Page Editor, The State – “John Edwards, Man of The People, is a phony. And until I see an awful lot of stunning evidence to the contrary, that impression is not likely to change.”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, August 11, 2007 2:19 AM | Add Comment

"The evidence does not support a referral to a court-martial," said Lt. Gen. James Mattis in his written decision. Haditha Marine exonerated? Powerful lawyer + a civil trial = Murtha in penury?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, August 10, 2007 2:20 AM | Add Comment

“Those Americans serving in Iraq, from senior officers to junior enlisted, believe they are now on the right track,” Retired Navy Vice Adm. Norbert Ryan Jr., president of the Military Officers Association of America, said.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, August 10, 2007 1:59 AM | Add Comment

"Some percentage of weapons the U.S. military provided to the Iraqi army and Iraqi police units were not tracked by serial number because there were no procedures in place to do so within the Iraqi units,” said Gen. David H. Petraeus.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, August 09, 2007 1:49 AM | Add Comment

Congresswoman Nancy Boyda Blows!!! She's a freshman no less.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, August 08, 2007 1:09 AM | Add Comment

On the 62nd anniversary, Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said, "The Japanese government should comply with the nation's pacifist Constitution as it is, and clearly say no to the wrong and outdated policies of the USA."

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:22 AM | Add Comment

ROBERT BURNS - AP Military Writer – “In two weeks of observing (in July 2007) the U.S. military on the ground and interviewing commanders, strategists and intelligence officers, it's apparent that the war has entered a new phase in its fifth year.”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, August 07, 2007 1:28 AM | Add Comment

"It takes time to work into an area," said Lt. Col. Michael Infanti, commander of the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment. Was the 2003 Army leadership fighting the enemy or focused on NCO tasks, like building dining halls, lines of communication, etc?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, August 06, 2007 1:51 AM | Add Comment

Financial Times of London - "European 'soft power' responsible for Gadhafi change of heart." Future FT headlines - "Elvis has left the building" and the "Europeans have left the planet."

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, August 04, 2007 1:30 AM | Add Comment

Leftists the world over are citing the OXFAM report on Iraq as wisdom. I-AM-NOT-MAKING-THIS-UP when quoting directly the Oxfam solution – “Bringing an end to war and civil strife in Iraq must be the overriding priority for the national government."

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:58 AM | Add Comment

"Shot to death by IRAQI soldiers." The Mosul leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was shot to death by Iraqi soldiers. Front page news in the NYT? Why not? Because "shot to death by IRAQI soldiers" is the successful exit strategy?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:26 AM | Add Comment

Loony, leftist logic unabated? Per the Associated Press – “Violence continued unabated…” READ full article below and note “zero context” for the “violence continued unabated…” Was no violence abated?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, August 01, 2007 2:00 AM | Add Comment

In 2003, was Gen. Franks’ war plan highly effective at scattering 100,000 cold blooded Ba’athists? Did the good general’s leadership do nothing to defeat or even kill Ba’athists? Was it shock and awe on empty buildings?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:17 AM | Add Comment
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