State Dept. reports weekend terrorist attack on Camp Hurriya, Iraq

Saddam Hussein, who supported MEK, had a hunting lodge at Camp Liberty, renamed Camp Hurriya. (Photo: U.S. Army)The State Dept. issued a formal announcement on Saturday, condemning the “vicious and senseless terrorist attack” at Camp Hurriya earlier that day. State said the attack killed 6 people and injured “dozens more.”

State said the government of Iraq would “promptly investigate the attack.”

Camp Hurriya was formerly Camp Liberty. Now the camp is used to house Iranian dissidents mostly belonging to a group called the People's Mujahedin of Iran.

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Democrats harp on Iraq as Obama criticized for Libya failures, State Dept. spending

Photo: Screen shot from C-SPAN broadcast of Benghazi hearings; The US ReportAs Sec. of State Hillary Clinton delivered an Oscar-worthy performance during hearings about her failures in Benghazi, the blogosphere lit up. In response to criticism about President Barack Obama’s war in Libya and irresponsible spending by the State Dept., Democrats harped on another war despite the fact it has nothing to do with Libya.

An example of Democrat rhetoric can be found at an article published at Front Page where a reader commented:

How many American dollars was wasted on a war that George W. Bush started in Iraq in his quest for "weapons of mass destruction"? $810,542,654 and counting.

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Did Soros’ media influence impact wars in Iraq, Afghanistan?

Remember the vicious behavior the left displayed whenever the topics of Iraq, Afghanistan and President George W. Bush came up? From Code Pink to Democrats like Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) came accusations that Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction. Anti-war protests were common. Legacy media picked up the meme. And one of the Democrats’ most influential benefactors devoted some of his wealth to elections in the U.S., with a key goal of limiting Bush to one term.  

George Soros is in the news again, not for politics or wealth, or for attacking a US president’s war policy, but for his ties to more than 30 major news organizations. Those ties are explained in an article at Fox News about Soros’ connectivity to US media. Soros isn’t just known for his wealth—he’s also known for influencing politicos around the world.

A thought occurred to me as I read about those ties—did this wealthy man’s influence, especially with media and leftwing Democrats in the U.S., help to prolong the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?

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Obama not sure pre-emptive strikes set a “good precedent”

I listened to President Barack Obama’s speech about Libya on Monday as he expounded on the war that is not a war and justified American participation in military intervention on humanitarian grounds. I found it difficult to believe this was the same man who spoke so forcefully about US intervention in Iraq.

Of course the United Nations had ample time to do something about Iraq. It is my opinion one reason the UN refused to enforce its own resolution stemmed from the Oil for Food scandal. Too many palms were being greased to disturb the Iraq money for oil pipeline—one actor was a UN insider as we all know now. A US State Dept. report details corruption within the UN. Billions of dollars benefited the actors who naturally wanted Saddam Hussein to stay exactly where he was.

In a 2002 interview with Obama [video below], he expressed misgivings about how the US would stabilize the conflicted population—Sunnis and Shias—in Iraq. Asked how he would have voted on the Iraq War Powers Resolution—Obama of course couldn’t have voted because he wasn’t a US senator then—he responded, “If it had come to me in an up or down vote…I think I would have agreed with our senior senator Dick Durbin [D-Ill.] and voted ‘nay.’”

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Big media catch up to The US Report on Saddam’s WMDs

The US Report featured an analysis about WikiLeaks’ publication of official military documents disclosing weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. I wrote my column on November 9. Big media is just now discovering the significance and it’s obvious the political fact based on a lie—there were no WMDs in Iraq—was part of an overall, continuing assassination of US leadership.

But there's more to this story than WikiLeaks.

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Pelosi overlooks minimum of $40 billion behind opposition to Ground Zero mosque

Updated on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 2:27PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, wants an investigation into funding behind opposition to the Ground Zero mosque.[Screen snip from video at Breitbart TV.]Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) apparently agrees with most conservatives’ legal stance on the Ground Zero mosque. Pelosi cited the “right of people in our country to express their religious beliefs on their property.”

However, Pelosi and former White House communications director Anita Dunn have criticized Americans’ political response. Many of us take issue with building a mosque blocks from where 3,000 civilians and first responders died nearly nine years ago. Pelosi said there has been “a concerted effort to make this a political issue.”

The California congresswoman has questioned how opposition to the mosque has been funded. Pelosi could easily answer that question—there is a minimum of $40 billion fueling the opposition, and in truth, there is far more than that behind it.

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Leaked military files elevate mystery about Wikileaks founder Assange

Updated on Monday, July 26, 2010 at 8:55PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Updated on Monday, November 29, 2010 at 10:03AM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Photo of Julian Assange from Wikipedia. At first glance, I was reminded for some reason of David McCallum who played Russian-born spy Illya Kuryakin on the TV series The Man From UNCLE.Wikileaks has published 75,000 US military documents about the war in Afghanistan and thousands more about other US military matters. No one knows the extent of the damage yet. But behind this new media coup is the Wikileaks founder who goes by the name of Julian Assange. And his public biography sounds more like fiction than fact.

The early years information in Assange’s bio is attributed to a single source—a New Yorker article by Raffi Khatchadourian. We have to assume there was a viable means of checking facts about Assange, but with media nowadays, it’s really hard to know what you can trust.

Start with Assange’s early life documented in the publicly-composed Wikipedia. Assange is said to be the child of a couple who ran a touring theatre company and that “he was enrolled in 37 schools and six universities in Australia over his early life.” He “lived on the run with his mom and half-brother.”

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