Most -- nearly all -- freepers never gave up heart on this WOT in Iraq. Don't besmirch the whole of us for the sake of a grudge against one or two.
Read the first sentence of the second paragraph on my Post #27, please, before you start accusing anyone of "besmirching."
And if you do turn out to be one of those, you will not dampen my elation. Things have been going far too well here lately.