Afghanistan Front News

MOD: Has released the name of the soldier killed on Monday, the soldier was " Lance Corporal Adam Drane, from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment " Our thoughts are with the family of Lance Corporal Drane.

The White House vs The Polls

The Hill: Reports on White House offensive to show that they are not interested in the latest poll findings on Obama. In other words they are worried, would use strong language but this is an open page. As previous post on the Gallup daily tracking Poll, the poll had found that Obama had only a 47% approval rating, when a President starts to go down in to this area he losses his power in Congress. When Obama was the STAR the Congress wanted to support him, but as in the movies your only as good as your last movie, in other words Obama was the bright star but now his follow up has proven to be a dud, from the economy to Afghanistan, and of course we have Iran next year. Thus lets see if the Democratic Party will go over the cliff with Obama, President Obama is no JFK or Reagan, although they had their agenda they had political skills in bad time. At West Point you could see that Obama was expecting the military to fawn on him, even the speech had spaces for wild applause, it didn't happen, thus Obama has now shifted to talking about getting the US voter back to work, the problem that with his economic stimulus and his health care reform he does not have the real money to get the US economy going, that is why Obama is heading in to Jimmy Carter land, a one term President, thus my stated prediction that Obama will lose big in 2012.

Baghdad Attacks

The terrorist attack today has the hallmark of Al Qaeda in Iraq, POTUS can not lose Iraq, is Iran behind the attack? It has to be asked, will Iran cause havoc in Iraq as to divert attention away from is march to become a nuclear armed power.

Obama falls BELOW 50% Approval - Gallup

Gallup: Reports that President Obama's approval rating has dropped to 47%, while those that have a negative view of Obama is at 46%. One has to ask does POTUS want a second term, he is no Reagan, one gets the feeling that he would rather take the Democratic Party over the cliff in the first term and fail at re-election. Has the USA elected another Jimmy Carter but worse. Poll after Poll has shown that Obama has lost the Independents, its easy to get them and lose them, its a lot harder to get them to come back, the Liberal Reagan that was seen in 08 has turned in to a combination of Carter/Mondale, and they both got crush when running for re-election in 1980 and when Mondale was the candidate in 1984.

100 Dead in Afghanistan this YEAR

MOD: Reports that a soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, the soldier was from " The Royal Anglian Regiment ". Thus before the end of the year the UK has lost 100 of its Armed Forces Personnel in Afghanistan. In total since 2001 the UK has lost 237 of its Armed Forces Personnel in Afghanistan, of that total it has lost 206 in combat operations and another 31 due to illness, accidents or other incidents.

The Abortion Vote - US Senate

Washington Examiner: Reports on a crucial Abortion vote in the US Senate today, if it passes it keeps Conservative Democrats on board for health reform but at the cost of liberal Democrats, if it fails Conservative Democrats could block the Health Care Reform. This could be the major vote folks, if Liberals win the moderate and Conservative Democrats in the House could bolt to oppose the Bill. Let see how good a politician Obama is when it comes to the trenches of vote getting on the Hill.

Shots in Tehran - Iran

BBC News: Reports on shots being fired at protesters in Tehran. Lets be clear here folks, the regime in Tehran will use the nuclear card to stay in power, they have to in many respects, they need the UN to pass hard and tough sanctions, then they can come down hard on those that are opposed to the regime. The question is how far the regime will go, does it want a War with Israel or the United States, that the one way to make sure that the regimes stays in power. Thus the clock is ticking as to has fast the regime will fall before it goes nuclear, and stated yesterday all politics is local, can the pressure from the UN and the USA push the regime out before it goes nuclear or before it starts a war in the region.