By Patrick J. BuchananTen years ago today, U.S. air, sea and land forces attacked Iraq. And the great goals of Operation Iraqi Freedom?Destroy the chemical and biological weapons Saddam Hussein had amassed to use on us or transfer to al-Qaida for use against the U.S. homeland.Exact retribution for Saddam's complicity in 9/11 after we learned his agents had met secretly in Prague with Continue reading...
And Was the Mission Accomplished?
Friday - December 16, 2011 at 12:51 pm
By Patrick J. BuchananFor the Army and Marines who lost 4,500 dead and more than 30,000 wounded, many of them amputees, the second-longest war in U.S. history is over. America is coming home from Iraq.On May 1, 2003, on the carrier Abraham Lincoln, the huge banner behind President George W. Bush proclaimed, "Mission Accomplished!"That was eight years ago. And so, was the mission Continue reading...
Was Awlaki an American?
Tuesday - October 4, 2011 at 1:21 am
By Patrick J. BuchananFriday morning, Predator drones operated by the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command rendezvoused over Yemen and launched Hellfire missiles that blew to pieces the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.A declared enemy in the war on terror was eliminated.Yet Awlaki was a U.S. citizen.Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul denounced the action. Kucinich said President Continue reading...
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