Tag: Saddam Hussein
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Lessons Learned About Border Security and Nation Building During a Tour of Duty in Iraq
by Allan Wall, Border Hawk, ©2025 (Nov. 25, 2025) — Twenty years ago, Uncle Sam sent me on an all expenses paid trip to Iraq, where I served a tour of duty as part of the Texas Army National Guard. Reflecting on my experience and observations in Iraq, I see lessons we can learn about…
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Donkeys Braying
“ALL THE CLEVER PEOPLE” August 15, 2020 Dear Editor, I hear all you donkeys braying, undermining the US in Iraq, just as you did in Vietnam! As water is to the human body, oil is to all modern industrialized societies! Forty percent of Westerners’ everyday needs are derivatives of oil, without which Westerners will fight…
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What Have We Wrought in Iraq? (RR)
“WE NEVER LEARN” by OPOVV, ©2016 (Dec. 21, 2016) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘Pulse of the Nation,’ the show that lays it out for you to decide. We’re back inside the railroad station about to interview this young man.” “Young man? Well, thank you, since I just retired.” “And where…
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Understanding Radical Islam
“RELENTLESS JIHAD” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2016 (Oct. 16, 2016) — On Saturday evening, September 20, 2016, a pressure cooker bomb exploded in a dumpster in New York’s Chelsea district. The bomb was powerful enough to blow the heavy steel container more than 120 feet through the air, and metal fragments from the explosion were found more…
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What was the Reach of the North Vietnamese Propaganda Machine?
HAS COMMUNIST INFLUENCE PERMEATED THE U.S.? by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 25, 2016) — On August 4, TruNews interviewed journalist Charles C. Johnson of GotNews.com and WeSearchR.com, who reported that he located a 1969 recording captured by the CIA and kept at the National Archives of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) allegedly reciting communist propaganda for what…
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What Do You Want to Talk About?
“PROACTIVE PROTECTION” by OPOVV, ©2016 (Jun. 14, 2016) — “What do you want to talk about?” “Girls.” “No can do. Look, we’re hundreds of miles from the nearest land, which means you can’t talk about girls. Or beer; ice-cold beer, so cold that there’s little slivers of frozen beer floating in the refreshing God-given amber…
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Factionalism, Friction, Philandering, Part 3 (Conclusion)
ARE U.S. PRESIDENTS THE BEST AMERICA HAS TO OFFER? by Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Col., USA (Ret.), ©2016 (May 17, 2016) — Eisenhower was the proverbial puzzle wrapped in an enigma inside a conundrum. He was not particularly bright but was the recipient of an abundance of great favors. The following link is a remarkably…
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The Culture War: Breaking it Down to the Basics
IS THE U.S. A COUNTRY OR NOT? by OPOVV, ©2015 (Jul. 12, 2015) — Money talks. All by itself, money speaks. Sometimes the message is horrible, as the phrase “Nazi Gold” conveys. At other times, the message is clear and straightforward and makes a lot of people who still retain their common sense after six years…
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Democratic Treachery
“THEIR BLOOD IS ON DEMOCRAT HANDS” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2015 (Jun. 7, 2015) — As we enter the preliminaries for the 2016 presidential election, Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media… including such heretofore “fair-minded” journalists as Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday… are trotting out their favorite “gotcha” questions, reserved exclusively for Republican…
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What Does “Never Again” Mean? pb
OBAMA REGIME TALKS “HEARTS AND MINDS” AS ISIS CONTINUES MURDEROUS RAMPAGES by Don Fredrick, ©2015, author of The Obama Timeline (Feb. 19, 2015) — Obama penned an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times on February 17 in which he addressed “Our fight against violent extremism.” His only references to Islam were to emphasize what he calls…
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Civil Liberties vs. National Security
FROM WORLD LEADER TO “SPINELESS REACTIONARIES” by OPOVV, ©2014 (Oct. 30, 2014) — Cutting to the chase, had America continued to have been as proactive and as smart as she was during World War II, or, to be truthful about it, had America continued to have been a little less messed-up than her enemies, we wouldn’t…
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Iraq War Revisionism
“THEIR BLOOD IS ON DEMOCRAT HANDS” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2014 (Jul. 11, 2014) — In his June 26, 2014 column for Investors Business Daily, titled “Revisionists Have A Field Day On Why We Invaded Iraq,” writer Victor Davis Hanson exposed much of the revisionism that is now occurring as Democrats lay the groundwork for a…
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Mother Bear Gets Mad
“THE SAME MINDSET” by OPOVV, ©2014 (Jun. 14, 2014) — When the only thing they understand is violence, then violence is the only thing possibly left to use. It’s one of those axiom things: if a=b and b=c, then c must = a. We’re talking beyond conversation, beyond reasoning, beyond bribing, and beyond cajoling. Debating…
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Lone Survivor
THE REASONS FOR WAR by TPATH Contributor John McClain, US Marine Veteran, ©2014 (Jan. 25, 2014) — We’ve been at war now continuously since I was born, fifty six years ago, and having served two decades active in the Corps, I still don’t have a clue how our “political leadership” ever allowed us into any…
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Al Qaeda Is The Common Thread
BETWEEN JIHADIS IN SYRIA, SOMALIA AND KENYA by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 22, 2013) — Before it became clear that the Obama regime was arming Syrian rebels in the two-year-old civil war, it was reported that the terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra had pledged its allegiance to Al Qaeda. An “adviser” quoted earlier this month by putative…
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The Two Faces of John Kerry and Barack Obama
WHAT ARE THEIR REAL MOTIVES? by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 15, 2013) — While in London on September 9, putative Secretary of State John Kerry lobbied for Great Britain and other countries to join the U.S. in its intent to carry out a military strike on Syria for allegedly gassing more than 1,400 people to death…
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Court-Martial: Unconstitutional Institution for Constitutional Defenders
WHY ARE MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY NOT PROTECTED BY THE FIFTH AMENDMENT? by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 3, 2013) — In May 2006, seven U.S. Marines and one Navy corpsman were accused of murdering an unarmed Iraqi man in the town of Al Hamdania, Iraq. Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III was one of the eight charged…
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Just One Single Seat in the U.S. Senate
PEACEFUL MEANS OF DEALING WITH SADDAM WAS ABANDONED “QUIETLY AND TREACHEROUSLY” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2013 (Jun. 14, 2013) — This is a “teaching moment” for all those who vote regularly and who consider themselves to be good citizens, but who are, like most Americans, either too busy with jobs and family or too politically blasé…
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Liars and the State of the Nation
“AN ACCEPTABLE LIFESTYLE” by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired, ©2013, blogging at Gulf1 (Jun. 10,, 2013) — As youngsters, the memory of which is now fading with the accelerating passage of time, we were taught to respect authority and obey our parents. My own five-foot, two-inch mother liked to remind me, “It’s better to obey…
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Is the Obama Regime Prosecuting “Thought Crimes?”
FEDERAL AGENTS INCARCERATING PEOPLE FOR WHAT THEY ARE ALLEGEDLY THINKING WHILE TERRORISTS REMAIN FREE TO KILL by Sharon Rondeau (May 4, 2013) — George Orwell’s 1949 novel 1984 depicts a “world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (Ingsoc) under the control of…