SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BLOGGER: Andrew Sullivan’s Pledge Week is over, but now it’s Bill Quick’s turn.

ANDREW SULLIVAN LISTS the nominees for his “Galloway award” for “the most strained and mealy-mouthed statements from the devastated press and anti-war politicians and activists following the capture of Saddam.”

Similarly, Jeff Jarvis continues to track the pronouncements of the Coalition Of The Pissy.

MICHAEL NOVAK: “Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq who now seek to live democratically is not a mistake. In the long, long history of the Middle East, this breakthrough may one day be ranked as a dramatic turning point in regional history.”

Victor Davis Hanson thinks it’s a turning point too. “In the last two years our enemies have lacked not the will but the power to defeat us; we in contrast had more than enough power but not enough will. But all that is changing as we ever so slowly become angrier while they get weaker.” And note in particular what he says about Syria and Iran.

IT’S A BUSY MORNING OVER AT WINDS OF CHANGE, where they’ve got their usual Monday roundups of Iraq news and war news, along with such other gems as a collection of advice for troops headed for Iraq and observations on military contracting and Halliburton.

EUROPE’S RED/GREEN ANTISEMITISM: Some thoughts from Jean-Christophe Mounicq.

UPDATE: Bad link before. Fixed now.

JOHN TABIN CRITIQUES media reactions to Saddam’s capture.

THE ARMY SHOULD QUOTE THIS SADDAM STATEMENT LIBERALLY:

“Why didn’t you fight?” one Governing Council member asked Hussein as their meeting ended. Hussein gestured toward the U.S. soldiers guarding him and asked his own question: “Would you fight them?”

Maybe the next dictator will ask himself that question before he winds up in a hole in the ground.