[Scott Ott, editor in chief of ScrappleFace.com, also writes non-satirical columns at Townhall.com. Below is a brief excerpt of his latest, and a link to read the rest.]
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The Obama Doctrine: Bringing Us Into Submission
by Scott Ott at Townhall.com
Every time you hear Sen. Barack Obama say that Afghanistan is the central front [...]

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(2008-03-19) — Rep. John Murtha, D-PA, the former Marine and outspoken advocate of a U.S. pull-out from Iraq, today threw his credibility and support behind the presidential candidacy of Sen. Hillary Clinton, as he called on her to withdraw from the race for the White House for the good of her campaign workers and the [...]

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(2007-12-15) — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, now polling ahead of Republican presidential rivals in Iowa and South Carolina, today put to rest concerns about his lack of foreign policy experience by criticizing the Bush administration’s “saber-rattling against the land of Persia.”
In a landmark speech slamming George Bush’s “arrogant bunker mentality“, Mr. Huckabee also questioned [...]

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(2007-11-19) — After another Democrat attempt to pull U.S. troops from Iraq collapsed in the Senate late last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, today announced a tactical shift designed to force President George Bush to end the war which polls show is unpopular with the American people.
“We [...]

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(2007-10-23) — In a newly-released audiotape, al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden spoke directly to Muslim insurgents in Iraq, calling them “a pack of sniveling sissies for collapsing in the face of the recent U.S. military surge.”
“When I see how you cower,” Mr. Bin Laden said, “I’m ashamed to wear the flowing robe of Muslim [...]

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(2007-10-13) — Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who generated headlines this week by calling the Iraq war “a nightmare with no end in sight,” today released a list of the “least newsworthy remarks” from that same speech to a convention of military journalists.
“While my critique of our government’s failure to formulate a ‘grand strategy’ for [...]

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(2007-10-13) — Retired Army Gen. Ricardo Sanchez this week gave an upbeat assessment of the war in Iraq meant to encourage the troops in theater and Americans on the home front, calling the war “a nightmare with no end in sight.”
A Pentagon spokesman welcomed the Sanchez analysis, and the Army newspaper ‘Stars & Stripes‘ published [...]

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(2007-10-12) — In the midst of a push by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, to pass a resolution labeling the Ottoman (Turk) Empire genocidal for the death of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915, House Republicans have introduced a bill condemning the Roman Empire for “the wholesale slaughter and domination of most of the known world [...]

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(2007-09-29) — The leading Democrat presidential candidates joined forces this week to immediately call for the eventual pull out of U.S. forces from Iraq on a time line that could have all of the troops home as early as the end of the second term of the president who succeeds the next one.
“We cannot let [...]

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