Biden: “U.S. is succeeding in Iraq because Petraeus is implementing the plan Barack and I came up with”

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  September 27th at 12:10 AM  | 

Joe Biden dropped this little nugget of previously unknown information in a post-debate chat with Fox News’s Chris Wallace Friday evening: Biden: (at 0:18) “The fact of the matter is, the only thing succeeding in Iraq right now is the plan that Barack and I talked about that Petraeus is implementing — giving local control in the very areas with a limited central government.” This | Read More »

Did you know the U.S. “toppled the Taliban” in 1991?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  September 18th at 12:21 PM  | 

Me either; in fact, call me crazy, but I always thought that the radical Islamist cabal didn’t even come into power in Afghanistan until about 1996. Then again, I tend subscribe to the version of history that is, you know, real. Reuters, apparently, does not, as reporter Sayed Salahuddin and editors Alistair Scrutton and Jeremy Laurence put an article on the wire this morning stating | Read More »