It seems every time I turn around columnists are echoing the blogosphere. Here's Nat Hentoff on Moore's Iraqi 'insurgents':

The divisions in this nation have become increasingly surreal as the elections approach. Many jubilant Democrats venerate Michael Moore. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe were at the Washington premiere of Moore's so-called nonfiction "Fahrenheit 9/11." This alleged documentarian said of terrorists in Iraq:

"They are not the enemy. They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow — and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush?"

Even the news media are unthinkingly describing murderous bombers, beheaders and assassins as "the insurgency." Historically, that phrase often had an honorable connotation, especially in America. George Washington and Samuel Adams were insurgents. Why not just call the jihadists and their allies by their rightful names: Homicidal terrorists.

Meanwhile, the growing chorus keening that this is a needless war includes not only Democratic strategists and acolytes, but also Ralph Nader. Fervently joining them are such selective antiwar groups as MoveOn.org and the International Action Center. Have any of such fierce organizational opponents of the Iraq war called for free elections in Cuba or Zimbabwe as they, in effect, scorn the actual coming of free elections in Iraq?

I recommend that you read it all. There's a quote at the end by a pedestrian that appeared in the New York Observer that you have to see to believe.

Hentoff is never one to play politics like baseball, he has no home team allegiance or hatred for the opposition on any pet issue. His criticism of the Left here is equal to his criticism of the Bush administration's policies on so-called ghost prisoners, (though their status under the Geneva Conventions is open to debate).

UPDATE: (In classic Eric style.)

I guess I just haven't been paying attention till now, but here's the Washington Times discussing what the blogosphere has already treated and virtually forgotten about, viz. Kerry's journal:

Mr. Kerry has claimed that he faced his "first intense combat" that day, returned fire, and received his "first combat related injury."

A journal entry Mr. Kerry wrote Dec. 11, however, raises questions about what really happened nine days earlier.

"A cocky feeling of invincibility accompanied us up the Long Tau shipping channel because we hadn't been shot at yet, and Americans at war who haven't been shot at are allowed to be cocky," wrote Mr. Kerry, according the book "Tour of Duty" by friendly biographer Douglas Brinkley.

If enemy fire was not involved in that or any other incident, according to the Military Order of the Purple Heart, no medal should be awarded.

I wonder if they'll ever tackle the Bob Hope angle.