DC, this is where we disagree. I think that the President's campaign against Iraq came from a personal vendetta, to finish up what his father didn't. Imagine if the first President Bush had actually listened to Schwarzkopf and given him the extra time he asked for, to finish the job properly?? I wonder what the future would've held.

Although I do feel he embraced the nation after September 11th and was grateful for the unified front that we as a people offered him, I think that he made a mess of Homeland Security, which was a golden opportunity to create an agency capable of real achievements. Instead, it became an agency run by political cronies that were not equipped to deal with their responsibilities. A real waste, IMHO.