[mountaineer]

Larry Miller writes:

Message to the administration: No one in Europe or on the left is ever, ever, ever going to like you from seeing a photograph of a marine handing a bag of groceries to a woman in a burkha. Jacques Chirac is never going to say, "Well, they have built a lot of community centers. Maybe Bush was right."

Win. Stopping building schools. Win. There's plenty of time and need for hospitals, but first . . . Win. Yes, yes, Iraqi girls can be very empowered by seeing a female colonel running an outreach program, and we can all chip in for the posters that say "Take Your Daughters To Mosque Day," but in the meantime, would you please win.

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[lodwick]

Time for me to shut it down and get myself northward.

[Timeout]

Shandi Finnessey, newly crowned Miss USA, plans to use her new position to defend U.S. involvement in Iraq. ("A Republican, she told Reuters she would use her position to help explain America's involvement in Iraq. 'What needed to be done had to be done,' she said.")

This could get good: The anti-American crowd protesting Miss USA!

However, the Associated Press chose not to report Shandi's plans with her position and nearly every other media outlet is ignoring it.