Headlines below the fold Thursday

Chirac has 30 million euros stashed away in Japan...Hmmm...bribe money?

John Edwards thinks there is no war on terror, which is news to those of us in the Philippines, where Alqaeda has been active since the mid 1990's. Guess he doesn't think Alqaeda related terror in India, Indonesia, Bengaladesh, Thailand or the Philippines is "real" terror, since he can't blame it on Bush.

The Anchoress points out that troops complain that good news is ignored, or buried under headlines of bombs, making it appear that there is no good news from Iraq. Tet redux?

But Time Magazine notices the positive changes in Anbar, which was written off by the press a couple months ago...

Trying to see everything thru a politically correct template can lead to some real absurdities. Take this "Historian" who has a long essay essentially saying the government is manipulating the recovery of captured soldiers as propaganda. He is an "expert" because he wrote a book about recovering bodies from VietNam using "the theoretical insights of Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and Emmanuel Levinas..".
Um, perhaps instead he should have used the theoretical insights of Sophocles on why many people feel need to rescue and bury friends and relatives, even at the risk of one's life.