[Torie]

The usual suspect Dems would have trashed him of course, even more fervently than now. The NY Times would have gone nuts. Isn't THAT the point?

[BigSkyFreeper]

This is what I don't understand about the Democrats. They've never been on the right side of the Iraq issue, no matter what. Partisan bickering was unheard of when Democrats launched into their recent conflagrations and unfinished quagmires that still exist today. The Democrats are mad Bush is actually doing something about the "unfinished business" from which they're 50% responsible for.