ChronWatch’s List of War Heroes

www.ChronWatch.com ^ | April 15, 2003 | Tom Saprkman

[TCSparkman]

"ChronWatch’s List of War Heroes: Our First Try"

Posted by Tom Sparkman Tuesday, April 15, 2003

ChronWatch recently ran a story about the Big Losers of the Iraqi War, which was a big hit on this site. It was also posted on some other sites, where it was equally popular and generated lots of comments. On the Free Republic discussion site, members expanded the list to nearly eighty losers, and suggested that ChronWatch should draw up a companion version: ChronWatch's List of Winners following the Iraqi conflict. Below is our first try at nominating the big winners of the war. Can you think of others?

To review ChronWatch's previous articles about the losers,

go to: http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=2221 and http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=2280&catcode=24).

ChronWatch’s List of Winners in the Iraqi War

+ George W. Bush + United States Army

+ United Stated Air Force

+ United States Navy

+ United States Marines

+ The brave and able soldiers of the United Kingdom

+ The brave and able soldiers of Australia

+ The Special Ops Troops that did much more than we will ever know + Donald Rumsfeld + Tony Blair

+ Tommy Franks…

+…And his generals

+ Jessica Lynch…

+ …And the troops that rescued her

+ …And Greg Lynch, her father.

+ …And “Mohammed” – The Iraqi lawyer who told us where she was + FoxNews

+ Ari Fleischer

+ Victoria Clarke, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs

+ Embedded reporters + Napa Valley wines + Whoever designed those amazing smart bombs

+ Patriot Missile System + The budget of those who boycotted the anti-war Hollywood stars

+ Clear Channel Communications (immediately boycotted “The Dixie Chicks”)

+ John Howard and his proud nation of Australia (The only other nation to commit troops)

Oh, and…

+ The U.S Budget Deficit

[TCSparkman]

We spend a lot of time on discussing what went wrong and what we could have done better. Every once and a while, we should stop and honor those that have done well. Here's my first attempt...

How many more can you think of?

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[ConservativeMan55]

Very Nice...we should especially thank W because without him none of this could have happened!

[Doomonyou]

+ Patriot Missile System

I wouldn't call it a winner, granted it did blow some scuds out of the sky, but it also took out some friendlies.

[Uncle Hal]

ChronWatch is a great site. Its main purpose is to counter the ultra liberal rag, the SF Chronicle. But it has a lot of good stuff from the conservative side. Sort of a poor man's Free Republic. I read Chron watch every day.

[airstrike]

The Marine who did the Rap thing with the kids. Good PR.

[Stultis]

Winner: The Kuwaiti Stock Market/Economy (through the roof)
Loser: The Turkish Stock Market/Economy (into the basement)

...or, in other words...

Winner: Forward-looking, engaged, opportunity seeking optimism.
Loser: Backward-looking, dour and fearful pessimism.