“Iraq” on The Daily Caller

Republicans on Capitol Hill are furious over the Obama administration’s handling of a purported Hezbollah commander, who was connected to the killing of five U.S. soldiers in 2007 and now is set for release by an Iraqi court. (more)

The international police organization Interpol issued a “red notice” for the vice president of Iraq, Tariq Al-Hashemi, on Tuesday for his suspected role in guiding and financing terrorist attacks in the country. (more)

A 92-year-old New York man is giving back to the troops in the most creative of ways. Hyman Strachman bootlegs newly released movies and ships them to American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. (more)

It was a golden opportunity for President Obama. He could make peace with conservatives in Congress, set the foundation for a bipartisan agenda in Washington and burnish his image as a man who led from the middle. He blew it. (more)

The Pentagon has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on marketing and propaganda campaigns dubbed “information operations” to win over local populations in Iraq and Afghanistan, USA Today reports. The funds dedicated to information operations grew from $9 million annually in 2005 to $580 million annually in 2009, according to USA Today. Last year the funding level dropped to $202 million because of the recent withdrawal from Iraq. (more)

From a young age, Eric W. Herzberg was trying to make peace. (more)

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — The quarrel at a Christian school was at first easily ignored by other students: a disagreement between a classmate and a teacher that could barely be heard. But it quickly escalated into gunfire Thursday in a murder-suicide marking the rare violent death of an American in Iraq’s most peaceful region. (more)

Scott and Cindy Pyeatt were sitting in a southwest Ohio restaurant on the night of Feb. 4, 2011, when they realized something was wrong. (more)

MOGADISHU, Somalia — There are few success stories here in this tortured country on the eastern coast of Africa. For nearly two decades, this drought-ravaged land and the long-suffering Somali people have been “off the radar” for most Americans. It might still be so if it were not for radical Islamist Somali terrorists — al-Shabab — and their financiers, the seagoing pirates who seize merchant vessels plying the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden. All of that is about to change. (more)

WASHINGTON — Twenty-three years ago this week, Iran’s self-appointed supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, broadcast a religious edict declaring that author Salman Rushdie and his publishers were “hereby sentenced to death.” The fatwa also called for “all the intrepid Muslims in the world” to “execute them quickly, wherever they find them.” The U.S. State Department acknowledged the proclamation and issued a statement “condemning this threat in the strongest possible terms.” Rushdie, then living in London, did the sensible thing; he went into hiding and rarely has been seen in public since. (more)

It seems the United States Army will be reverting to the condition it is usually in when a Democrat is President and Commander-in-Chief. I remember those days well. Back then the Army didn’t have enough repair parts to keep its motor vehicles running and its helicopters flying so combat units were instructed to selectively cannibalize non-running vehicles and helicopters to keep as much of the fleet operational as possible. (more)

The great British poet Rudyard Kipling, understanding today’s situation in Afghanistan better than our State Department wrote, “I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside. And the lives ye led were mine.” (more)

For the past fifty years the United States has led the world because that was its destiny. World leadership here at the beginning of the 21^st Century is still its destiny. This nation was created to be, as President Reagan was wont to say, “A shining city on a hill” lighting the way for other nations to find the path that leads to freedom, knowledge and prosperity. (more)

During Saturday night’s ABC News debate in New Hampshire, Texas Gov. Rick Perry pledged that he would send American troops back into Iraq if he were elected president. (more)

In a statement released on Monday, a 16-year former aide to Texas Rep. Ron Paul writes that the presidential candidate “was opposed to the war in Afghanistan, and to any military reaction to the attacks of 9/11,” but ultimately voted “Yay” [sic] in the face of a threatened staff rebellion and near-certain political suicide. (more)

Last week, violence struck the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing 63 just days after U.S. troops completed their withdrawal, making it the deadliest day in over a year. (more)

Iraq’s vice president says that Iran is “definitely” behind Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s move to jail him on terror charges, saying it is “not a coincidence” that his arrest warrant was announced the day after the last U.S. troops left Iraq. (more)

During a phone conversation with the parents of Maj. Megan McClung, I referred to the loss of their daughter in Iraq as a tragedy. The fallen Marine’s mother, Dr. Re McClung, offered a prompt, polite correction.  “Nothing about Megan’s life was tragic,” Maj. McClung’s mom, speaking from Coupeville, Wash., told the Unknown Soldiers. “A tragedy does not occur when you have a compelling desire to serve your country in the best possible way. (more)

Attorney General Eric Holder’s effort to give terrorists civilian trials was thrown under the 2012 campaign bus last week, when his boss, President Barack Obama, ditched the attorney general’s efforts to win control of jihadis who are captured overseas and also released a terrorist who murdered four captured Americans soldiers. (more)

Since March 7, 2010, roughly three months before he announced his candidacy for president, Mitt Romney has avoided appearances on Sunday morning political shows. That is, until he ended the drought on this week’s edition of “Fox News Sunday.” (more)