It is so good to hear things like that straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak. I am feeling kind of frustrated tonight because I am the only conservative, Bush-loving, Iraq war supporter in my family, and your post lifted me up.
I bet your son has some stories to tell. I imagine it would be hard, in a way, to come back here to the USA, where there is som much negativity about the war.
He also gets ALL his info now from military sites. He NEVER accepts stuff in the MSM as being accurate when it comes to Iraq (like some of the not too bright folks around here do.....).
Never can tell. My mother, a confirmed liberal and ingestor of only liberal media news, decided after the London bombings that we should stay in Iraq till the job is done.
When she asked me in 2003 how long I thought we were going to be there, I answered then 3-4 years.
But she also gets plied with my news about all the care packages I and our troop support group send to the troops and some news from the front seeps in, so that may have made a tiny bit of difference.
Anyway, there will be a time, God willing, maybe some years in the future, in which their view of the Iraq War may shift with the shifting world assessment of what it accomplished.
Of course, they'll never give GWB any credit...
But liberal rags have to tread softer on Reagan now than they did in the past as history is coming around to honoring what he accomplished. (And we are dealing with what he couldn't do and left undone.)