WASHINGTON -- By now there is very little doubt that the armed forces of the United States are quite phenomenal. The display of technology, tactics, teamwork, discipline and control in the four-week campaign that has taken control of Iraq has been quite a show, a demonstration of military power that is well beyond that of any other nation.
President George W. Bush has succeeded, where his father failed, in driving Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. His war Cabinet performed well and weathered the short-term criticism from armchair critics when the momentum of U.S. troop gains seemed to fade after just a week. Critics fell silent just as quickly as the rush to Baghdad resumed.
Determined to rout the evil Hussein, despite hesitation by U.S. allies and worldwide criticism, Bush succeeded in driving the regime from power and exposing the horrors it had perpetrated on the Iraqi people for the past three decades. The joy and gratitude of so many Iraqi citizens for their liberation that Bush has fashioned bubbled through on television.