G&V are doing 4.2 caches a day this last month, we're at 3.6, so we'll now cross at 2000 in mid-Sept. And, while I'm on useless trivia, my Where's George score is 540.04, which puts me at #5169, 50.8%tile. Finger twirling wildly in air. I have georged up a lot of bills but they're still in my purse. First you have to spend them.

Our favorite jihadist called with the news that Nick is becoming a "onelet", a First Lieutenant. I find this guy astonishing. We're very proud of him.

Little Miss Hooters? ARGH.

Ralph Peters says Time is the New Enemy... he doesn't mean the magazine, though he might as well. And after reading this, I really AM going to cancel Newsweek. I knew it was biased, but this is over the top.

This morning, a soldier called Rush and told about someone he put into Abu Ghraib prison... raped and killed a 6-yr-old, and a grandmother... the soldier was hoping that this guy was one of the ones in the pictures.

Here is more on Arab prisoners being abused... by other Palestinians. And more pictures, this time of Saddam's time.

Good news from Fallujah.

Stuart Buck:

Abortion protesters have commonly publicized photographs of aborted fetuses, and one famous short film (The Silent Scream) even shows ultrasound images of an actual abortion. Yet these tactics typically result in criticism aimed not at the abortion providers, but at the protesters themselves.
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But how does this square with the reaction to the pictures of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib? Recall that a few American soldiers forced prisoners to pose for sexually explicit pictures, images that were graphic and distressing.

Yet, disturbing as the photos were, opponents were adamant that they should be made public.

This is some of a transcript of Scarborough country (on Pelosi and Kennedy). Ann Coulter is often over-the-top, but here she's pretty much right on:

COULTER: Well, you�re talking about a military 1.4 million strong, well over 100,000, several hundred thousands have been through Iraq. And, you know, so far we have seven malefactors. To smear the entire management of the prisons of Iraq and say they�re the same as Saddam�s torture chambers, that�s really unbelievable. It is literally unbelievable.

SCARBOROUGH: And how is it treason? Define treason for me, as you did in your book.

COULTER: Rooting against your own country. And I don�t think it takes sneering remarks about a commander and chief in wartime. I don�t think there�s anything treasonous about opposing a wartime commander�s position.
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Since Hanoi Jane went to Vietnam, we obviously are not a country that prosecutes for treason. But the fact that we don�t prosecute anymore does not mean there�s no such thing as a treasonous statement. And for liberals to be constantly leering over mishap, every damaging incident that happens to our troops in Iraq, wishing for more Americans to die, that is treasonous under any normal understanding of what treasonous is. If it isn�t, I would like to know what is treasonous.

Morton Kondrake, Congress, Media Could Talk U.S. Into Iraq Defeat

In this respect, there is a real danger that Iraq could become like Vietnam - a self-inflicted defeat. Public support for the war is down, and even conservative columnists such as David Brooks and George Will are implying that Bush's aims are unachievable.
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But it's utterly vital that Americans give the enterprise every chance of success. The consequences of failure will be disastrous-not just for Bush, but for Iraqis, for America, for the Middle East and for civilization itself.

Roger L. Simon comments:

What a bunch of phonies! I mean it. In a world where people's heads are being lopped off and others are being castrated live these sleazy careerists are hellbent on winning an election over all.

In my living room right now is a very cute sweet little boy watching Dora the Explorer. He just loves Dora. I would like very much to see him grow up. I would hope that every adult in this country would stop and think that a lot of young Americans are risking life and limb to help make a lot of babies like this one safe.

But what do they get in return? A self obsessed media and a lot of preening polticians strutting like whores.

Jennifer Harper:

the group tracked abuse stories from April 29 through May 11 on NBC and found that the network aired 58 stories on the abuse in that period.
The MRC also found, however, that in the past year, NBC had aired only five stories on mass graves found in Iraq from the Saddam Hussein era.

I think they're doing what they did with the Wellstone funeral, overkill. We will see. Unfortunately.