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I was struck by this piece by Fred Kagan. First, he talks about violence: Though you may be getting the opposite impression from news reports, the sectarian violence that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had unleashed by destroying the Samarra Mosque in February 2006 has subsided. Measured weekly, sectarian killings are down by almost two-thirds since the [...]

Barack Obama, my former state senator, has been running to the left as the anti-war candidate in the Democratic primary. Since he wasn’t in the Senate in 2002, he can say that is the only major Democratic candidate to not vote for the war. But when John Kerry offered an amendment in 2006 to pull [...]

There was an interesting exchange yesterday at the Politico. Tom DeLay and Martin Frost agreed that Iraq is likely to be the dominant issue of the 2008 Presidential election. DeLay stated it as a certainty, but Frost allowed for the possibility that we might pull out: The only question is whether a definitive decision about [...]

A little off the 2008 theme, but… Wow.  The Military Times has the story: The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget. This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee’s Democratic leadership doesn’t like the phrase. [...]

Has Mitt Romney joined his father as one of the rare "peace candidates" in a GOP primary? Is he trying to suck up Chuck Hagel’s space? Or does he just think that Sam Brownback might have been on to something? In any case, Duncan Hunter found his prey and is attacking: "Romney is absolutely wrong [...]

Great…. "Appearing on ABC News’ "Good Morning America," Romney voiced support for a private timetable and benchmarks for U.S. troops to get out of Iraq."

Roll Call ($) has the story. I argued a long time ago that Iraq was going to be more of a problem for the Democrats than the Republicans. What has happened since then? First, Bush is going to get to veto a pork-laden bill. And the people like that: The new polling data, conducted March [...]

Really? I never… Indeed. Hillary says one thing in fundraisers and another in the Senate.

I just got off a blogger conference call with John McCain. I bunch of people asked questions including Rob Bluey, Phil Klein and Jim Antle from the American Spectator, Green Mountain Politics, Doug from Granite Grok, someone from Wizbang, Ryan Sager, and others. I don’t want to recount the conference call, but McCain talked about [...]

John McCain has harsh words for the House Democratic Leadership on the Iraq Supplemental Appropriations Bill that they just passed. This is what he said at a town hall meeting in Plymouth, NH: McCain has been taking some heat for skipping some votes recently. But he is canceling some fundraisers to participate in the debate [...]