Hello,

I just wanted to note something that Joe Lieberman said:

I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood--unless the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn. . . .

Here is an ironic finding I brought back from Iraq. While U.S. public opinion polls show serious declines in support for the war and increasing pessimism about how it will end, polls conducted by Iraqis for Iraqi universities show increasing optimism. Two-thirds say they are better off than they were under Saddam, and a resounding 82% are confident their lives in Iraq will be better a year from now than they are today. What a colossal mistake it would be for America's bipartisan political leadership to choose this moment in history to lose its will and, in the famous phrase, to seize defeat from the jaws of the coming victory.

Now the obvious point to make is how optumistic his comments are in contrast to the outlook of the major distributers of misinformation in this country, the mainstream media. But I want to make a different point. I want to point out that whenever a republican, be it McCain or some other publicity glutton comes out and opposes the position of the larger GOP, it makes big news and is used as an example of party dicord, crumbling support for the administration, etc... But here we have a prominant Democrat essentually debunking his party's position on Iraq via first-hand experience of being over that and where are the media dogs on this story?.... Practically nowhere. Thank you.

Another complaint.

Pop culture = evil; these days. I noticed on Drudge that story about those Abercrombie and Fitch shirts that are just awful. But see this degrading trashy stuff all over the place. It is anti-civilization in nature. The music, the movies, the clothing, it's all about mainstreaming filth. I think that a lot of people have bought into this idea that they can just compartmentalize this stuff and society will still thrive and survive with responsible adults. This is not true. The poison seeps into the soul and pollutes people's lives completely. That's why we're having problems like never before with the youth and an increase in really sick behavior. What goes on in schools today, for example, is appalling. The stuff that used to be limited to certain depraved neighborhood now is everywhere. Corrupt minds create a corrupt people. And make no mistake, a corrupt people will not survive for long.