Sticky Notes

    "The United States might be the only country in world history that reverse-propagandizes itself, magnifying its setbacks and ignoring its successes so that nothing can disturb what Sen. Joe Lieberman calls the “narrative of defeat.”

Is this not so on the money? Great line from Rich Lowry at NRO.   H/T to ACE.

    Morning Coffee posts about the WP and Queen P.... best line:

 "Aggressive oversight is quite different from mandating military steps according to an inflexible timetable conforming to the need to capture votes in Congress or at the 2008 polls."

Now this headline is downright misleading. From Reuters.

Former U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told Spain's El Pais newspaper she had seen a letter apparently signed by Rumsfeld which allowed civilian contractors to use techniques such as sleep deprivation during interrogation.

That headline simply conjures up  the worst. No sleep?? Been there, sorry. 

Ripped from the headlines  right off  California Conservative:

He reports on Wesley Clark's and the Dem's plan for Iraq.

You're not gonna believe this. Then again, yes you will. 

    Just a little something as the polls start opening across the country.

  (CNSNews.com) - U.S. media coverage of Iraq was so gloomy that during a recent visit to the U.S. the prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan wondered whether the situation had deteriorated to such a degree during his absence that he should stay away.

Discouraging, predictable, embarrassing. 

"Police surround the site of a bomb attack in downtown Baghdad in Al-Wabhiq Square in the largely Shiite and Christian Karada district. Iraqi security forces killed 14 "terrorists" and seized 22 suspects, the government has said, in a spectacular follow-up to the capture of an alleged top-level Al-Qaeda leader." AFP/Yahoo

See, what'd I tell ya. 

  "Ghanim Ghudayer, 22, considered one of the best players in Baghdad's Air Force Club, was kidnapped on Sunday evening by unknown assailants." FOX News.com

Some of kidnappers wearing military uniforms, plus  Ghudayer was getting ready to go play for a year in Syria.