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From the Sgt. Schultz files:

NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE MOBILIZED AS OF JUNE 26
This week the Army announces an increase of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force each announce decreases of reservists. The net collective result is 177 more reservists than last week.

At any given time, Services may mobilize some units and individuals while demobilizing others, making it possible for these figures to either increase or decrease. Total number currently on active duty in support of the partial mobilization for the Army National Guard and Army Reserve is 34,478; Naval Reserve, 8,760; Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve, 36,773; Marine Corps Reserve, 4,096; and the Coast Guard Reserve 1,485. This brings the total Reserve and National Guard on active duty to 85,592 including both units and individual augmentees.

This mobilization appears routine and mundane enough to not be a sign that Iraq will be hit soon. The mobilization to look for will be a large increase in sea and airlift capacity and reserve support component activation.

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Via Drudge:

Another meme that will never die: George Bush is stupid, Democrats say.

If you hadn’t read in this newspaper, Rep. Diane E. Watson, California Democrat, proclaimed President Bush has a low IQ – “of 88.”
“That tells you something,” she said, insisting that a “shadow government” consisting of Mr. Bush’s “father and the guy who calls himself the vice president” was actually making the decisions in this country.
“The ’88’ certainly isn’t making the decisions,” she said.

Yawn. The same old tired assertions. I will, however, give Rep. Watson for a nice two-fer. Bush is stupid, and there is a shadow government. Double Yawn.

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This headline says it all about our friends at the Guardian:

US Nuclear Attack on Hiroshima Paved the Way for September 11 and Its Aftermath

The whole article deserves a sound Fisking, but the opening paragraph is particularly odious:

Now that the number of innocent civilian victims killed collaterally in Afghanistan by the US bombardments is equal to the number killed in the attack on the Twin Towers, we can perhaps place the events in a larger, but not less tragic perspective, and face a new question: is it more evil or reprehensible to kill deliberately than to systematically kill blindly? (Systematically because the same logic of US armed strategy began with the Gulf war.) I don’t know the answer to the question. On the ground, among the cluster bombs dropped by B52s or the stifling smoke in Church Street, Manhattan, perhaps ethical judgments cannot be comparative.

There you have it- Moral equivocation, reliance on dubious statistics, and a mixture of conjecture and dubious false truths. Didn’t someone already debunk the Marc Herold civilian casualty claims?

Oh yeah. That can be found here.

Repeat a lie often enough…

The rest of the article should be read at your own risk. Damn jackals.

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This is one battle we can not afford to lose, or we will see our soldiers being accused and tried by every two-bit dictator in the world.

The US Assault On World Criminal Court

One question- How long before charges are brought against Ariel Sharon and George Bush? I say a month or less.

This is one battle wePost + Comments

Gay and ready to go off half-cocked. No pun intended.

Gay and ready to goPost + Comments

Jonah Goldberg is beating up on Alec Baldwin again. If my archives were not all messed up, I would go find my post that had all his other quotes in there…

Jonah Goldberg is beating upPost + Comments

I guess I am going to really have to pick up my blogging. Instapundit is out of town, now Layne and Welch are quitting. That really is a tough blow.

I guess I am goingPost + Comments