Tonight our President will give a keynote address in which he will tell us that he is ordering 20,000 more troops to Iraq, most of them to go to Baghdad, in an effort to quell the civil war presently under way in the country. Supposedly, he will explain t...

THE NEW STRATEGY....From the president's speech tonight:Our past efforts to secure Baghdad failed for two principal reasons: There were not enough Iraqi and American troops to secure neighborhoods that had been cleared of terrorists and insurgents. And th...

Active terms. Baghdad will be cleaned, and this time we mean it. The Iraqis will do most of the work, but we will be there to make sure they do it right. But the terms belong to the language rejected by the nay-sayers, and at the end of his speech, he s...

Bryan Preston and Michelle Malkin are in Iraq, and here’s Bryan’s first dispatch: On Patrol in Baghdad.