Conservative Pulse

Iraqi budget surplus hits $80B on oil bull market

With the United States pumping reconstruction money into Iraq and record-high oil prices around the world, Iraq is getting their money and making it too.  The troop surge has led to a significant decline in violence and more productive work has been able to take place, leading to a somewhat lasting infrastructure.  As a leading [...]

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al-Maliki mistranslated on Obama plan

According to the Iraqi PM, he has been thoroughly misunderstood as endorsing Obama’s 16-month withdraw plan. Hot Air noticed that Speigel published one version then actually changed part of the interview yesterday and today we see, via CNN , that a spokesman for al-Maliki issued a statement saying that his words were "were misunderstood, mistranslated and [...]

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New York Times rejects McCain essay

Last week the New York Times ran an editoral entitled “My Plan for Iraq” by Senator Barack Obama.  In his piece, Obama talks about pulling the troops out by 2010 and takes a couple of shots at Senator McCain.  It was all pretty standard stump speech stuff. As expected, the McCain campaign filed a response editoral to [...]

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Obama a war president wannabe

Barack Obama has now said he would also increase the US occupation of Afghanistan by at least two combat bridades per month.  Assuming he even knows what he’s talking about, and this isn’t just another “Well, I’ll wave my magic Joint Chiefs wand and have it done” statement, he’s basically saying that we need more [...]

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Ahmadinejad going to Iraq

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be making a trip to Iraq on Sunday, at the invitation of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.  Although formerly rivals, the governments of Iran and Iraq have put aside some of their differences in recent years.  The US occupation has diminished the formerly powerful Sunni majority, leaving Shiites to gain a [...]

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