[driftless]

I'm a regular lurker on that garbage heap of a website and I guarantee you that you could penetrate the gloom there with a knife. Most of those lefty nuts were openly hoping for our defeat and huges losses for our troops. The patriotic Dems on that site have had a fine time ridiculing the reality-challenged lefties who are now sulking in silence. The news reports of further repression of dissidents in Cuba by their beloved hero Castro has them depressed also. The proportion of far leftists to moderate Dems on that site is about five to one. I just hope those moderate Dems finally get a clue about the state of their party. The Dems have substantially tilted into the delirium of the anti-American far left. An election of any of the current Dem prez candidates would be disaster for the U.S. Lieberman is about the only one who supported Bush and Blair in this conflict. The rest, including Kerry, are severely out of touch with the average American.

[Hildy]

There are so many loonies, but once in a while there is a light even among the most diehard of them. Check this out in response to a post asking why there were so few Iraqis out on the street.

Yes, those are small crowds, but imagine living your entire existence under the thumb of a brutal dictator, and then imagine the world's greatest military power bombarding your existence for over three weeks. You might be a little frightened to venture out into the streets, you might be a woman, you might be in mourning for your own family members who were killed in the bombings. As anyone who has read my posts before knows, I hate this war, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, and I stand firmly against the Bush Junta in our own country, but I am not so jaded that I can't feel happiness and joy and even shed a few tears that the Iraqi people are slowly being freed from the grip of Saddam Hussein. He was an evil prick. I've got a pretty strong BS detector, but I won't allow all the U.S. propaganda we can dish to jade me into being upset about this moment. I do think that the statue coming down in the center of Baghdad was an authentic thing, and I'm pleased for the one good outcome of the war: Saddam is finished.

Flame me if you want, but I'm thrilled for Iraqis, I'm proud of our soldiers, I cry for the innocents killed both by our regime and Saddam's, and I pray that we won't be fighting the "new boss" in the next 20 years or so.