We saved the Shiites in Iraq from a permanent underclass status, forbidden from worshipping, kept out of political power, driven into exile, and killed by the thousands and shoveled into mass graves.

I am fascinated by a mindset that believes some form of gratitude for this would be a bizarre concept, and a sign of "arrogance" on the part of the rescuers.

Oddly, recipients of assistance who spit in the eye of their benefactors, while complaining that they havn't done enough for them, and that the benefactor should be grateful for the privilege of supporting them, seems to be a common problem here in the U.S. too.

And if one more person says something along the lines of "The Iraqis never asked us to liberate them," I'm going to puke. What were they supposed to do? Take a vote? Put up banners? Write letters to our Senators? Testify before the House of Representatives? Maybe we should have taken a poll under the eyes of Saddam's murderers.

"100 percent of those interviewed in Iraq in 2000 said they were perfectly happy under Saddam's rule." Well, I guess that settles that, doesn't it? Wow, that was the same result we got in Cuba and North Korea, too! And remember way back when our journalist ancestors asked all those slaves in the deep South how happy they were while the overseers were watching? Not one complained!

Plenty of Iraqi exiles wanted Iraq liberated, but the Left declared them "evil."