Watcher of Weasels:

The Council Has Spoken!

First off...  any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here,  and here.  Die spambots, die!  And now...  the winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are The "Don't Make Waves!" Theory of Iraqi Politics by Big Lizards, and General James Mattis -- Attacking the al Qaeda "Narrative" by Small Wars Journal.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  Thanks to everyone for all the great entries this week...  I'm eager to see next week's entries!  Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

Votes	Council link
4	The "Don't Make Waves!" Theory of Iraqi Politics Big Lizards
3	Political Fairy Tales **Bumped ('cause it was getting lost below)** Bookworm Room
1  1/3	Globalization Killed the Bison?! Cheat Seeking Missiles
1	Re-Crafting U.S. Foreign Policy The Glittering Eye
1	An Interesting Morning Rhymes With Right
2/3	A Straw in the Wind Right Wing Nut House
1/3	Roundup With Weekend Monkey, 8/10/07 Joshuapundit
1/3	Mitt Wit Done With Mirrors
1/3	Needed Perspective The Colossus of Rhodey

Votes	Non-council link
3	General James Mattis -- Attacking the al Qaeda "Narrative" Small Wars Journal
1  2/3	Progressive For Racist Smears? (Update: Progressive Wises Up A Little Late) Captain's Quarters
1  2/3	The Difference Between Reward and Punishment Yehuda
1  1/3	Are You Black Enough? Logosphilia
1  1/3	In Memory of Kimberly Aaron's Rod
1	Fathers, The Third Victim of the Abortion Industry Intellectual Conservative
2/3	Wait, I Thought Our Quota for Epic Debacles Had Been Exceeded! The Belgravia Dispatch
1/3	Gen. Petraeus Talks to a Liberal Redstate
1/3	False Altruism JunkYardBlog
1/3	Huckabee's Results In Iowa Poll -- It's the FairTax, Stupid! The Liberty Papers
1/3	Clap 'Em In Stocks! Eternity Road

I thought it would be best to leave out the entries that didn't receive any votes at all.  The fractions come from the splitting of the votes...  primary choices counted as 2/3 of a vote and secondary choices counted as 1/3.  Both counts for primary and secondary choices were then added all together.  I could have avoided using fractions, but it would have put the results on a completely different scale...  I'd rather that the total reflect how many people actually voted.  Please send any questions, comments, complaints, criticisms, crude insults, or thinly-veiled threats to this address.