The Underground Conservative

The last media outlet on Earth that you’d expect to expose one of the Left’s most cherished myths, did just that this morning. The Washington Post–yes, the POST, not the Times–actually published today an editorial titled “‘Bush Lied’? If Only It Were That Simple.”
You could’ve knocked me over with a feather when […]

Last night, I was at Michelle Malkin’s blog, reading an old post that opened my eyes on what really happened in Haditha. Which is basically that the whole thing was, according to a Marine intelligence report (released here via pdf), an “intentional propaganda ploy planned and paid for by Al Qaeda foreign fighters.” […]

As a veteran (Army) myself, this story rankles me.
Sgt. Michael McNulty, a 26-year-old Marine from Chicago, had his car keyed allegedly by a jerkball lawyer as he visited a friend before he left for his second tour in Iraq.
Charges against the lawyer, 55-year-old Jay Grodner, might be upgraded to a felony, […]

The commander of a U.S. military prison in Iraq has been arrested for allegedly “aiding the enemy,” the military said.
U.S. Army Lt. Col. William H. Steele, a senior commander of the Camp Cropper detention center west of Baghdad, has been transferred to Kuwait for the military equivalent of a grand jury proceeding, a military spokeswoman […]

Well, they’re making it official now, anyway. At least Harry Reid says so:
The war in Iraq “is lost” and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, said Thursday.
“I believe … that this war is lost, […]

The only thing missing is a the demand for a troop withdrawal deadline that coincides nicely with the 2008 Presidential election season:
Tens of thousands of Shiites — a sea of women in black abayas and men waving Iraqi flags — rallied Monday to demand that U.S. forces leave their country. Some ripped apart American flags […]

First the good news: the 15 British sailors and marines (including one female) captured by Iran recently are going to be freed.
Now the bad news:

The world has taken its eyes off Iran’s developing nuclear capacity
Ahmadinejad used this entire incident, including the release of the sailors and marines, for propaganda purposes (including a photo-op of him […]

“The American people are not getting the full picture of what’s happening here. They’re not getting the full picture of the drop in murders, the establishment of security outposts throughout the city, the situation in Anbar province, the deployment of additional Iraqi brigades which are performing well, and other signs of progress having been made,” […]