I remember those images and reports as well. It was truly a spiritual victory of the American way over the savages of the region as well as an example to the rest of the world of how people respond to liberation by a kind benefactor who sacrificed the blood of their sons and daughters to see freedom reign.
It is my understanding that the 40+ million Kurds of Iraq are still thankful and forever appreciating the American sacrifice.
I became very critical of GW Bush in his second term, I was one of the first, now joined by so many others. I am dead set against the GOPe and would support a Tea Party like political party to replace them if necessary.
But the democrats are absolutely traitorous. If I was in a leadership position of an independent party that wielded party in Washington DC, I would allow the GOPe to exist under rights granted them under the Constitution, but I would prosecute the democrats for treason for the rest of my life to the point where they would be outlawed in our United States just like the Neo-Nazis are in Germany.
The Left became completely and literally unhinged following the 2000 election. They loosely conspired to destroy Bush at every turn, no matter the cost, even if it meant national chaos or destruction. The Left became deeply and personally committed to the destruction of Bush and anyone who thereafter opposed them. We continue to see the fruit of the Left’s bitterness borne out in the lawlessness and heavy-handedness of Obama.
A lot of blame goes directly on Al Gore who single-handedly put this nation on this self-destructive path by his actions following the 2000 election — which he lost on each and every count that kept going on. But Gore could not accept this and he intentionally poured bitter, bitter poison into the well of America.