[Whitebread]

I agree with you completely, and admire a "fellow traveler" with such optimism for the future. Within our life time, I have confidence, humanity to shrug the chains of opression. Freedom is the natural state of man and GW Bush will become revered like Regan. Like all revolutionaries GW Bush pays the price in the short term, while history will judge the long term.

[Thunder90]

The thing is is that the US needs to remain strong, capible, and efficient to make sure that the second collapse of communism/islamofascism happens. If we weaken or lose our resolve, democracy will collapse.