07/18/06 – An American woman calms a child while flying in a U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, to Cyprus on July 18, 2006. At the request of the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon and at the direction o…

July 21, 2006 12:00 PDT Frequent updates. Scroll down for more stories. Previous coverage links in right sidebar. Links to Lebanese and Israeli bloggers covering the conflict are @ Truth Laid Bear, plus a map view with pointers to the…

I heard an American in Lebanon complaining on television the other day that she could not get out of Lebanon and there were bombs. Putting her naivete aside, she did seem to realize she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. During her brief inter…

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This past week we’ve seen an embarassing amount of public ungratefulness shown by US citizens in Lebanon complaining about the evacuation process (for starters ‘why should we have to pay the US gov’t for our evacuation?’ and …

No matter what side you’re on, it’s easy to put a little “spin” in motion. Click on the pictures to be taken to their originating blogs.

Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations July 20, 2006: “I repeat, hostilities must stop!”

If Kofi Annan had been speaking for the United Nations in 1944 as the tide of World War II turned strongly in favor of the allies, he no doubt wou…

Look at this photo and several others at Michelle Malkin, as the troops evacuate AmericansfromLebanon. God bless them.

When a few bad apples do something stupid in Iraq, it gets headlines for weeks, when Marines help people, nary a headline anywhere. Makes you wonder.

Am I the only one here disgusted with the whining and complaining coming from the ungrateful wretches being evacuated out of Lebanon?

Marines help bring evacuees on board a LCU (Landing Craft Utility) from a beach in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 20, 2006. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)…

So many people are complaining and not giving credit to the service men and women that are busting their asses getting people out of Lebanon. To them, I echo the words of Michelle Malkin, and say a big fat THANK…

Ditto to Michelle Malkin’s message to our troops evacuating Americans from Lebanon:Dear American Marines, sailors, soldiers, and airmen: The complainers and critics may have neglected to show proper gratitude to you for helping to evacuate them from Le…

By now you’ve probably already seen the dramatic footage (Michelle Malkin has photos) of Americans wading on to landing craft. Wartime evacuations are always difficult but this one is ramping up rapidly:
In addition to the USS Nashville, the Saud…