Can it be that it was all so simple then?

***“Iraq Is All but Won; Now What?”(Los Angeles Times headline, 4/10/03)

***“Tommy Franks and the coalition forces have demonstrated the old axiom that boldness on the battlefield produces swift and relatively bloodless victory. The three-week swing through Iraq has utterly shattered skeptics’ complaints.”(Fox News Channel’s Tony Snow, 4/13/03)

***“The war was the hard part. The hard part was putting together a coalition, getting 300,000 troops over there and all their equipment and winning. And it gets easier. I mean, setting up a democracy is hard, but it is not as hard as winning a war.”(Fox News Channel’s Fred Barnes, 4/10/03)

***“If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a president fresh from a war victory?”(CNN’s Judy Woodruff, 5/5/03)