U.S. Central Command is using its web site to respond to digs at Iraqi reconstruction by the mainstream media.

TSgt Tammie E. Barker posts a report on the CentCom web site by Tom Clarkson of the Gulf Region Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers:

"According to MSNBC "Hardball" commentator Chris Mathews, reconstruction in Iraq is a non-story."

With that somewhat startling opening, by well known, national talk show host Laura Ingraham, commenced a lively, half hour, telephonic, on-air, discussion with US Army Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division (USACE-GRD) Deputy Commander for Reconstruction Kathye Johnson.

"Firstly, I'm wholly dumbfounded by such a statement," said Johnson. "Maybe we should go back to basics here. Let me try to explain the three major pillars of the work being done by coalition forces in striving to help Iraq recover from three decades of infrastructure denigration and capacity degradation. These 'gotta' haves are: security, economic development and effective self governance."

U.S. Service men and women using the web to counter mainstream media: An Army of an Army of Davids?