by Matt Barr

Watcher's Council best posts week ending Sept. 1

The holiday weekend threw of my blog body clock. This should have been posted this weekend! The Watcher's Council selected these best posts from among those nominated for the week ending September 1.

Dr. Sanity's essay A Nation that Stands for Nothing Deserves a Media that Believes in Nothing took the title. The good Doctor blasts snarky media accounts of the "slogan" "Operation Iraqi Freedom" appearing on fallen soldiers' tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery.

My father who died last year was proud, proud, proud that he fought not just in WWII, but on Iwo Jima. At his funeral, a Marine talked about the battle of Iwo Jima and the thousands who died there.

This was not public relations. This was not a "slogan" or military propaganda. This was a profoundly humbling and moving honor to my father, who considered his service to this country as one of the most significant and important parts of his life.

Read it all. Runner up: A.J. Strata's Iraq Connected to 9-11. Speaking of which, Jon Stewart recharged his anti-Bush mojo while on vacation last week, and it showed last night, but one particularly funny bit involved Ed Helms, reporting from Giants Stadium, saying that the President's response to Katrina would be to build a dam in Arkansas, so we can fight the water there instead of in New Orleans.

Best non-Council post, by a lot: Gates of Fire by Michael Yon. Second place: In Defense of John Bolton at Chez Nadezhda.

See the winners and the voting results linked here.

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