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Ollie North Vividly Portrays the American Heroes
By 204 B.C., the Carthaginian general, Hannibal, had been wreaking havoc on the Italian peninsula for 14 years at a cost to Rome and its Italian allies of approximately 100,000 lives. In that year, a young charismatic general from one of Rome’s most aristocratic families, Cornelius Scipio, convinced his elders in the Senate to send him and an expeditionary force by sea to attack the Carthaginian homeland in North Africa. This finally brought Hannibal’s army out of Italy to a battlefield of the Romans’ choosing, to a place called Zama, where one of history’s greatest generals was defeated.
In his new book
American Heroes in the Fight Against Radical Islam, Oliver North
writes that two weeks after the fall of Baghdad, in the town of Baji, the 66th
Armored Regiment came upon one of Sadam Hussein’s enormous ammo dumps. Quickly,
the regiment’s commander realized that the insurgents would be coming to steal the ammo.
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He ordered his troops to set up ambush points along the roads leading into the massive complex. Pitched gun battles erupted nightly. Recapping one night’s fighting, North writes: When we arrive, the platoon commander who triggered the ambush is reviewing with his soldiers what happened. The bodies of 14 men, nearly all dressed in black, are lying on or near a rutted dirt road that enters the ammo dump from the East… According to identity documents, only two are Iraqis. Of the remaining 12, four are Jordanian, three are Syrian, two are Egyptian, one is Saudi, and two are Lebanese. Barack Obama, ever the propagandist, incessantly asserts that the centerpiece of his “change” agenda will be the repair of our international reputation, which has been so badly damaged by President Bush’s war in Iraq. This assertion, uttered for the consumption of his far-left contributors and a compliant media, clearly illustrates his belief that a lie told often enough becomes a fact. American Heroes shows Obama’s mantra is a disservice to those who are fighting this war -- Americans, Iraqis, Afghanis and allied soldiers. A huge lie, it is a
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Timmerman Exposes Saboteurs in Our Government
Kenneth Timmerman’s new book, Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors,
Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender, is a potent assault on the enemy within.
The late great U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeanne Kirkpatrick once
reflected upon her role in the war against the Communist bloc and its sycophants
by remarking, “We understood that our words were weapons.” Now, in a world where
ubiquitous Internet-bound words penetrate every private salon from Tehran to
Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Timmerman has detonated a rhetorical bunker buster.
Shadow Warriors is undoubtedly setting off shock waves inside the American
intelligence community, because it exposes the offensive conducted by
hyper-partisan bureaucrats working inside our
“But if you ask the average
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