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The Observer Journal - Observation Leading to Insight: Monthly Archives for March 2008

Iraqi intelligence services finally getting good information - Army led to the buried body of Matt Maupin - first soldier captured in the early days of the Iraq war

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, March 31, 2008 2:24 AM | Add Comment

B. Hussein Obama bowls a 37... Yes, a 37 out of 300 -- B. Hussein now stands for Bowler Hussein Obama at the Altoona Massacre

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, March 31, 2008 1:49 AM | Add Comment

A fundamental misunderstanding of the Left's intentions and objectives. Leftists show false empathy for our military. The war's narrative is unresolved yet the left is working hard for a USA loss - the movie STOP-LOSS

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, March 29, 2008 2:32 AM | Add Comment

Sadrists fighting all over Iraq. Why? 1) Because the Sadrists are the last and only "non-AQI" group calling for the immediate withdrawal of US Forces. 2) Sunni Arabs are going to vote in massive numbers in October 2008.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, March 28, 2008 2:42 AM | Add Comment

END OF THE WORLD - women have stopped buying shoes - DSW Shoe Warehouse shares P-L-U-N-G-E --- it must be economic Armageddon because women will stop buying food before shoes

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:17 PM | Add Comment

While in all of 2007 the Iraq war occupied an average 15.5 percent of the "newshole" in the media, in the last quarter it fell to nine percent, and then to just 3.9 percent in the first quarter of 2008 - translation, good news is no news

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:51 PM | Add Comment

Lincoln and Roosevelt knew their job was to get the military the bucks, bombs and boots. You defend "with the army you have" but you don't go on the offense until you have an army reasonably capable of breaking the enemy's OODA loop.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:10 AM | Add Comment

City Hard Perimeter Strategy - “It was easier in Fallujah because that city has a hard perimeter,” Lieutenant Macak said.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, March 24, 2008 5:05 PM | Add Comment

It's the security, stupid. “Thanks to the Americans, we are finally free to live our lives.” Omar, who is a Doura resident and a member of the neighborhood council said, “You have made very many mistakes, but now you are making security better.”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, March 24, 2008 2:32 AM | Add Comment

A first hand statement of observable fact - "My previous tours were frustrating," Captain Brian Gilbert said. "The first tour there was jubilation at the fall of Saddam. Then it was like, 'Now what do we do?'

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, March 21, 2008 1:29 AM | Add Comment

A dramatic change in doctrine, training and capability – all for the better – “We satisfied the Iraqis three biggest needs in 30 days.”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:47 PM | Add Comment

"The battle in Iraq has been longer and harder and more costly than we anticipated," said George W. Bush on March 19, 2008. Five years after the fact, who is this inclusive “we”?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:00 PM | Add Comment

War will always dominate a presidency. It is never the inverse. Even Roosevelt at the height of his battlefield successes knew this truth and was wise to show great deference to Gen Marshall’s bottom-line

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, March 17, 2008 1:12 AM | Add Comment

A fundamental misunderstanding of the Lefts objectives. Deception play-acting as empathy for our “decimated ground forces”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, March 14, 2008 10:19 AM | Add Comment

Democrats quietly pass massive tax increase – killing off future job growth. Tax increase closing in on $1 T-R-I-L-L-I-O-N -- No doubt a brutal hit to future economic growth. Looming disaster will cause government revenue to fall.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, March 14, 2008 7:00 AM | Add Comment

Historically, real estate over-corrects to the downside. If the spring 2008 selling season is a disaster, panic is the next phase. According to the WSJ, Goldman sees another 15%, Merrill another 20%.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, March 14, 2008 1:09 AM | Add Comment

A handful of “Winter Soldiers” are back. In 1971, the United States was snookered by “our American” Winter Soldiers. Mockingly, the Observer quotes Marx, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” The 71 charade was definitely tragedy

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:18 AM | Add Comment

How to explain Guantanamo to your children and democrat friends -

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:31 AM | Add Comment

All active and reserve - all four services - crushed their recruiting goals. Is it time for leftists to begin their own phased, 16 month withdrawal from the "policy war" here in the USA?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:28 AM | Add Comment

Victory? The U.S.A. stumbles into the low cost deal of the century with thanks to AQI for their bungling ineptitude?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, March 11, 2008 2:37 AM | Add Comment

Obama wants to talk to these guys? Obama and the American-Left are beyond clueless - Sheikh Raed Salah denies the Roman Empire or the Jewish temple on the Temple Mount ever existed.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, March 10, 2008 1:24 PM | Add Comment

The poverty and dysfunction of national socialism

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, March 10, 2008 11:37 AM | Add Comment

The Left-Media “pivots” are more predictable than the rising of the sun.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, March 10, 2008 2:06 AM | Add Comment

Al-Qaida scrambling to pull off a massive attack on a major U.S. city before inauguration day on January 20, 2009? Bush has been on the offense for years – the al-Qaida strategic narrative is at grave risk.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, March 07, 2008 4:00 AM | Add Comment

Home owners 'Give Up' - U.S. Mortgage Foreclosures skyrocket

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, March 07, 2008 3:00 AM | Add Comment

Democrats draining the bank in the primaries and on track to be broke during the general election

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, March 06, 2008 2:52 PM | Add Comment

U.N. Oil for Food scandal – B. Hussein Obama involved?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:38 AM | Add Comment

Environmentalism as religion - the airline was accused of an 'obscene waste of fuel' by Friends of the Earth

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, March 06, 2008 2:43 AM | Add Comment

The complaint about Iraq is a performance complaint, not a values complaint.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:35 PM | Add Comment

John McCain will make Dick Cheney look like Mahatma Gandhi and George Bush like Mother Teresa

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:54 AM | Add Comment

Most in-depth poll to date, half the American public now says the Iraq war effort is going either very well or fairly well.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:50 AM | Add Comment

Atheer, in southern Baghdad, said: “The religion men are liars. Young people don’t believe them."

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 1:00 AM | Add Comment

How to explain Ohio's crummy economy to your children and democrat friends

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:23 AM | Add Comment

Sea Change in Iraq - many lieutenants and captains now have developed extensive networks of Iraqi informants

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:17 AM | Add Comment

“I think Iran’s interests are a weak government of Iraq.” -- Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, March 03, 2008 1:01 AM | Add Comment

Bush's Brain

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Sunday, March 02, 2008 1:28 PM | Add Comment
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