Pajamas Media military affairs expert Austin Bay previews tonight’s speech by President Bush on Iraq. The speech calls for an additional 21,500 troops for the war. Bay just participated in a blogger conference call with White House press secretary Tony Snow on the troop “surge”and the new strategy.

Somewhere in Syria...

Broadcasting from a secret location in Syria, Al-Qaeda and its allies now have their own 24-hour television station, Pajamas Media has learned. Known as Al-Zawraa, Arabic for “first channel,” the station broadcasts enemy propaganda and rebroadcasts of Western anti-war material, including Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. It is not connected with Al-Jazeera.

Maimonides

“Jewish-Muslim reconciliation is an imperative in and of itself…. It is an imperative as well for global peace, for an end to Muslim terrorism and the war against Muslim terrorism, and for ending a history over-burdened with recriminations, each side denying the other’s capacity to be fully human, with neither recognizing the other as oneself.”

by Salim Mansur

More than ever these days, Hollywood has a reputation for slanting material leftward and veteran filmmaker Robert Greenwald (Xanadu) is not helping.

Pajamas Media Middle East Editor Omar Fadil of Iraq the Model responds to the Lancet published study alleging that 655,000 Iraqi deaths are attributable to the war: “This fake research is an insult to every man, woman and child who lost their lives. Behind every drop of blood is a noble story of sacrifice for a just cause that is struggling for living safe in freedom and prosperity.”