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ONE WAR LOST, ANOTHER TO GO, Frank Rich of “The New York Times” writes with unmistakable glee. “The Rats Are Deserting Bush’s Sinking Ship”. Who are the rats?

Yes - American Liberals: What Pieces of Work! Although they slink about the nation in the costumes of weasels -they are really rats! The surrender rats! “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid their country!” It is time, good men and women, to show your support for the beleaguered president and the slandered troops. We must win the Iraq front in this long, long world war that is facing us - the war against Islamism. We must fight now and our children and grandchildren will continue the fight before the world can be safe for our God given freedom.

Frank Rich and his ilk say the war is lost; “ONE WAR LOST, ANOTHER TO GO”. The “Another to Go” is what he calls the War on Terror (a misnomer), but which is actually World War IV, (The Cold War was WWIII), the world’s fight against the horrors of Islamic fundamentalism. One thing he IS right about; if this Iraq War is lost, as Rich has declared, so will be the greater war against Islamism:

But while the war is lost both as a political matter at home and a practical matter in Iraq, the exit strategy being haggled over in Washington will hardly mark the end of our woes.

Few Americans will cry over the collapse of the administration’s vainglorious mission to make Iraq a model of neocon nation-building. But, as some may dimly recall, there is another war going on as well - against Osama bin Laden and company.

The percentage of Americans who now regard fighting terrorism as a top national priority is either in the single or low double digits in every poll.

There you have it Amercans of 2005, Frank Rich says you don’t worry about terrorism. Apparently the Bush administration has been so successful in preventing terrorist attacks on our homeland since 9/11, that you feel you are safe. Take a look around the world - and you will not feel so secure. Liberal Ed Strong, has posted the entire Frank Rich diatribe, and writes that Rich is a “Warmonger Wolf in Liberal Sheep’s Clothing”. Okay … seems now the sheep are calling the rats and weasels warmongers .

Real Americans are made of sterner stuff than can be found at the “New York Times”. They would have been yipping and yapping at the frozen heels of General George Washington if they had been around then and taunting his ragtag band of rebels as losers with no hope of winning against the world’s mightiest army. Read about Another George and Give War a Chance. Linked at WaPo’s Iraq War Debate and Michelle Malkin.

That There’s Leaking Going On in Washington! Oh … WaPo is the victim, - that explains all.

How ironic! Fishbowl DC is gossiping about an an internal “Washington Post” on-line chat about their star reporter Bob Woodward. The WaPoers are SHOCKED and OUTRAGED that their comments were leaked — to “The New York Times” no less!

WaPo’s Jonathan Yardley warned a NYT reporter, that she was quoting from a “confidential internal document”! He further whined, “I hardly see any point in having critiques and comments if they are to be publicized outside the paper. How can we write candidly when candor merely invites violations of confidentiality?”

A Leaky Post Newsroom: The Post’s internal critiques are proving to be a real opportunity for internal discussion — and the critiques in the wake of the Bob Woodward controversy of this week are no exception.

Now in the wake of more revelations and debates over leaked information, the internal message boards are humming with a debate over, well, leaks from the message boards.

Today they’re debating the propriety of the critiques, given that the more interesting ones often end up leaking outside the newsroom–and being posted on blogs, running in Washingtonian magazine, and even–horror of horrors–being quoted by Howard Kurtz in the paper itself.

Our hearts are bleeding for the trials and tribulations of the “Fourth Estate”. Ruffles and Flourishes to Pat Cleary at “Manufacturers Blog”.