Lucianne links to a POV about what we have accomplished in the Mid-East. I still say the same thing: Why isn't this stuff coming from the White House? Another horrid example of the mute who is President. Very depressing. These things:

This war has an ambitious aim: the transformation of the most dysfunctional region of the world. You can't do it overnight. But, 10 months after the liberation, it should be possible to discern a trend, and right now all the Middle Eastern dominoes are beginning to teeter in the same direction.

Note that Bush says nothing so how do we know? There's more:

What's happening is that most countries in the region are moving toward the American position; the only variable is the speed.

Not coming from the White House. Do they even know?

the ''coalition of the willing'' has effected more positive change in the last 10 months than the multilateral establishment has in the last 10 years. If Bush loses in November because he can't provide sufficient witnesses to prove where he was on certain weekends in 1972, he'll still have an impressive legacy: He's toppled two dictatorships, neutered a third, and put the squeeze on several more

Hard to believe the sleepwalking White House had anything to do with it, does it?