U.S. Deaths in Iraq at 21-month High

Why are we using voting machines run by a Venezuelan company that has ties to Hugo Chavez?:

The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chávez.

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The Iraqi Prime Minister is standing up to the Bush administration. He refuses to be a puppet:

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday referred to the boundary between himself and the United States, telling U.S. President Bush that he answers first to the Iraqi government and people, according to an Iraqi official.

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al Qaeda's October Surprise just keeps getting worse for our troops:

October became the deadliest month for U.S. soldiers in Iraq in nearly two years on Saturday with the announcement of the death of a U.S. Marine in the western Anbar province.

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We are no longer the largest arms dealing nation. Woop-Dee-Doo. And their biggest customers are our greatest enemies:

Russia surpassed the United States in 2005 as the leader in weapons deals with the developing world, and its new agreements included selling $700 million in surface-to-air missiles to Iran and eight new aerial refueling tankers to China, according to a new Congressional study.

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We should consider those military men who use their expertise to write books that provide terrorists the knowledge to kill Americans, as traitors. That is the case with Major John L. Plaster. He wrote a book, Ultimate Sniper, which is a instructional manual used by insurgents in Iraq to kill American soldiers.