Congressman Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., is accusing U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq of killing civilian women and children â in a series of allegations that includes the charge that President Bush is not qualified to be commander in chief. "I just don't believe that you bomb women and children in order to enforce [the U.N. resolution on Iraq]," the Harlem Democrat told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" Thursday night. When challenged on his claim that U.S. forces were killing Iraqi children, Rangel said sarcastically, "You're right. They're shooting themselves. They just don't know they're being liberated."
Maybe they're not shooting themselves, and we're not shooting them, either, Charlie. But that's inconceivable, isn't it?
After accusing American GIs of what amounts to the commission of war crimes, Rangel then slammed President Bush as unqualified to lead the U.S. into war. "With all due respect to the president, I don't think he has the experience for me to be listening to him on how the war's going or what we should be doing," the left-wing Democrat and Hillary Clinton ally complained. "It would be a tremendous stretch to say that I have an appreciation for the president's knowledge of international politics."
Didja ever notice that every time these goobers preface something with "with all due respect" they always say something that's so outrageously disrespectful that it just makes you want to slap them?
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Thousands of Peshmerga Kurdish guerrillas have overrun the main headquarters of a group of Islamic radicals in the mountains of north-eastern Iraq. The Ansar al-Islam base at Biara fell several hours after the Peshmerga forces launched an offensive at dawn on Friday. A senior official of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Peshmerga guerrilla group which carried out the operation in conjunction with US special forces, said that around 70 Ansar al-Islam adherents had been killed and that all their main centres had been overrun. He said the survivors had fled into the mountains towards the border with Iran and he predicted that the area would be completely clear of them within 24 hours. Now, lets see if Iran lets them in.
After nearly a week of preparatory American air and missile strikes on Ansar positions, the battle to dislodge the Islamic faction got under way in earnest at first light on Friday. More than 5,000 Peshmerga guerrillas had been mobilised for the campaign. They began pushing from the west along several axes towards the mountain strongholds held by the Ansar. American special forces were meanwhile on strategic hilltop locations providing some mortar and artillery fire and calling in air strikes from jets which were circulating almost constantly over the rugged mountains. As the battle continued, loud explosions echoed through the area and plumes of black smoke rose into the sky. This fight took place in the harshest terrain, with the rugged peaks which mark the border with Iran still mantled with snow. Iran is known to be deeply unhappy about US forces conducting operations so close to its border. But for the Americans, tackling a group which they regard as terrorists is something of an article of faith as that was one of the reasons given for their intervention in Iraq. Neither they nor the Kurdish Peshmerga forces want the group to be left active behind their backs when they turn their attention to the Iraqi front lines to the south. Now the intel boys can pick through the camps and see what they can find. This is where Ansar was supposed to be experimenting with chemical weapons.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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