[Lauratealeaf]

No, hell no, but then my support for the endeavor came from considerably deeper wells of belief, and of a certain moral perspective about foreign policy, and the role of America on this planet.

I agree with most of your post. But, I suspect that the tempest in the teapot is more with the media and democrat operatives who are desperate to make President Bush into his father. But, he is not his father. War is hell and there will be more trouble in Iraq but things are not as bad as the media would like for us to believe.

[Torie]

This thingie along with the ongoing body count without publicized progress revealing a light at the end of the tunnel has registered in the polls against Bush. It cannot be easily dismissed from that perspective.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

We should all see things with such clarity as you do. This tempest and every one between now and election day is being orchestrated by the DNC with the cooperation of the media. The Thompson story is really just a small nugget of how all of the machinations work. There will be numerous whispers and innuendo that get churned up into controversies. The goal is to confuse the voters, and make them doubt Bush's abilities.