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You're more than welcome. BTW, add one to that list......After years of being an international pariah, Libya is opening up its country to UN arms inspectors, has made payments to the families of the lockerbie bombing victims, and is in general trying to play nice. Libyan officials deny it has anything to do with the war on terror, but the timing is rather amusing.....
I'm in no position to contest the veracity of such claims, and I am sure that great things are happening to the Iraqi people now that the reign of tyranny is now over. What strikes me as odd is the fact that Bush has not been extolling all of these wonderful happenings? Especially in the wake of a new election.
Incidentally, his little lap-dog John Howard (our PM) faces re-election in 2004. I will be veeery interested to see what it is that these two will base their new political platforms on.
(Go Mark Latham, Go! The only thing I like about Howard is that he is a cricket fan - not much to base re-election on)
Bush has (with the exception of the carrier landing) been relatively quiet in regards to ANY political posturing regarding the war. He told admin officials that there would be no gloating in the wake of Hussein's capture, and with a hostile news media (not completely, but it isn't a friendly get together in the white house press room) the story isn't going to get out unless the admin pushes it.
As much as I don't like Bush, that makes me happy that he's not trying to rub it in anyone's face. It really has been relatively quiet in the media about Saddam....now they can just focus on us not having Osama...