WOW! That's amazing. Their problem was that you were so dead on with the facts.
You should have taken video! How did the rest of the meal go?
My mother (89) won't allow politics to be discussed at the dinner table, so this all occured after we had gone to the living room.
In the past, I had attempted to ignore their barbs, I didn't know how to battle them. A freeper gave me the tactic of putting the ball in their court with questions, it may not have gone as smoothly as I have presented it here, there were many "now wait a minute, let me finish" interjections on my part. I also had to stop them and ask them to answer my question, as my brother and sister will change the subject if you let them.
They went on to the "disarray in the Republican camp" mantra, along with predictions of doom for the pubbies in the next election, but they never brought up Iraq again.