Ola!

The Major Matt Mason hostage photo (scroll down a bit) is still going strong. The Instalanche is over, but now a lot of smaller blogs have taken it up. Especially in the Hispanosphere, for some reason. My Spanish and Portugeuse is bad enough I can't really follow the discussions, but at least half-a-dozen Hispanic blogs are now linking and driving traffic.

The photo is also being passed around the military world too. I've had hits from several military and Iraqi War discussion threads, even some from Army.mil!

It shows, as some have noted, that we've turned an important corner in the Second War in Iraq and against the terrorists. They are reduced to faking videos (shooting down planes; captured hostages). Zarqawi calls democracy "evil" just before the Iraqi elections and still 8 million turn out to vote, despite shootings and bombings. We -- the bloggers and the amateurs -- can spot the fakes faster and better than the MSM. We can crank out parodies at an insane rate. We enjoy creating these parodies. It's the American middle finger.

Hollywood can completely avoid the topic in movies and television, and the MSM can twist the news all they want, but the facts on the ground have supplanted them. The American people have outpaced them. There is no quamire; we're making solid forward progress. The situation is improving. We are winning.

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