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I was listening to the news this morning on CBS Radio, out of NYC. The announcer said that "Despite this event, the Bush Administration claims things are going well in Iraq." He said it with such a dismissive tone, as if to say, "Well, what would you expect from this lying administration." (I know I am putting words in his mouth, but he definitely used the expression "the Administration claims....")

After one year, any fair reading of the Iraq situation that considers the totality of the facts, and not one incident, would lend strong credence to that which the Administrations "claims." The people are free from a murderous tyrant, there is a free press, they are about to become self-governing and democratic (a miracle in that part of the world), there is power, there is water, there are working schools, the oil is flowing and the televisions are working. All this despite the determined efforts of Saddam loyalists, imported terrorists and assorted miscreants of every stripe. Compared to Iraq, the de-Nazification of Germany and the occupation of Japan were "quagmires," to use one of the dems' favorite expressions.

For about twenty five years, Saddam and his ilk in Fallujah murdered 300,000 innocent Iraqi's. This would mean 12,000 innocent men, women and children were murdered each year. Those four contractor's who murdered and their bodies desecrated is an example how barbaric Saddam's bunch are. Millions of Iraqi's had to live in fear everyday with these thugs. I wish the press would get that.

The substitute for Rush yesterday played an audio clip and read a transcript of some socialist slime at a California campus, I believe, urging the Iraqis to rise up, fight and throw out the American occupiers, and for American troops to desert as they had in Viet Nam. Kerry's name came up in the context of the type of tactics needed here is similar to those used by him in the 1971 protests.