<...On the other hand, if we had for instance, just lost half a division I would not be calling those people who predicted easy victory idiots and making painfully-extended juvenile jokes about how stupid those people were in retrospect.

Maybe you wouldn't have, but I could give you a long list of anti-Bush media stars who would have done exactly that in a New York minute. It would have filled opinion columns, cartoons, slanted news stories, and been the top topic of sneering news anchors. Look at how fast they jumped on the convoy bombing incident.

The leftists in politics and their toadies in the media have had to lay low and make nice in the face of overwhelming pro-war (and pro-Bush) public opinion, but you can bet that their real agenda, the political destruction of the Bush Administration and the political elimination of every Republican in the District of Columbia, is never far under the surface. A lot of these people are praying behind closed doors for some massive military screwup, although they would die under torture before admitting it.

The coming election is going to be very interesting.