Frank I know I am going to get jumped on left and right by this, well maybe only left. John Burns who was the Bureau Chief for the NY Times who was over there for 4-5 years, his wife is still there, did research on those numbers and they don’t come up with that. The majority of those deaths were insurgents killing civilians, Iranians backing groups to kill other groups, homicide bombers, Iranians killing Americans, Syrians coming in to kill. That is not to say that it wasn’t a terrible decision, with horrible consequences. I knew my son would be there. But I will tell you this, many want them to go, but most want us to stay. Believe me, I don’t want them to stay. The Iraqis need to pick it up from here, and they are. The Sons of Iraq with several offshoots, are turning AQ in all the time. They want their country back. I heard Burns in an interview the other day, he said you used to be able to set your watch with the timed homicide bombs going off, now his wife told him it hardly ever happens. Men come up constantly and thank the soldiers for what they do. Not all of course, but enough. Some tell them it was terrible and hard, but it is better than living under Sadam Hussein. I saw an interview with some young Iraqi men and one was very angry at the US because we hadn’t come sooner, and so many children had died under the Oil For Food program by the United Nations. They never got the food. I never wanted them to go in. I knew the bombing would tear that place apart, just like we bombed the hell out of Bosnia, and killed there as well. That war was sold differently. We saw the pictures of all the caged and starving muslims and heard the terrible stories of the rape and torture of women and girls. All wars are sold to us. Congress voted on this war. If they didn’t want it, they should have done more research on their own. Seems like they didn’t. Senator Kennedy voted against it because he didn’t want our troops exposed to the WMDs. So he must have believed they were there. This is on all of their conscious’. It is easy to always blame.

Probably so. But sometimes, and I think this is one of them, who wins or loses the skirmish may not be the point. The articles of impeachment almost sound like an indictment for war crimes. I think that it may take a bit of time, as it did after the U.S. attorneys were fired, for people to start getting the information and sharing it and demanding that something be done. Maybe I am wrong; we will see. But I was right about the U.S. attorneys. When they were fired I told a friend, that is going to be the end of Gonzales.