Here is an article that quotes some of the favorite people of our anti-war posters. By, "favorite," I mean people they love to hate. :>)
washingtonpost.com
Among the Hawks, Few Crow
Bush Partisans Are Restrained, While Voices of Dissent Still Sound
By Mark Leibovich and Roxanne Roberts
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, April 10, 2003; Page C01
As Baghdad fell, Tom DeLay's office in the Capitol was a model of restraint and quiet satisfaction. Staffers paused from a meeting to watch TV in a conference room. They clapped and cheered when Saddam Hussein's statue finally toppled. DeLay merely smiled. "Tens of millions of people just had the best day of their life," the House majority leader said later.
It was a good day for hawks, too. After a year of domestic and international debate -- and an uncertain few weeks on the battlefield -- they were relishing the televised giddiness that conveyed their vindication.
"I hope the Germans and the Frenchmen will now ask their governments why they opposed this effort," said Richard Perle, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and, until recently, the chairman of the influential Defense Policy Board. Perle, one of the war's most strenuous supporters, said yesterday felt similar to when the Berlin Wall came down and when the statues of Lenin were toppled in the former Soviet Union. "The images were reminiscent of that for me."
There was little boasting, few partisan sneers, not many I-told-you-so's. President Bush "remains very cautious because he knows there is great danger that could still lie ahead," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
"Perhaps I feel temporarily vindicated," said Bill Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard. "But I'm still struck by the challenges ahead."
Indeed, yesterday's watchwords were caution and restraint. But it wasn't difficult to find breaches in the administration's preferred No Gloat Zone. Some red-meat Republicans were happy to distill yesterday's historic import to its partisan essence.
"The Democrats were on the wrong side of the Civil War, the Cold War and now the Iraq War," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and an all-purpose chest-thumper on matters Right Wing. "Their batting average on these things is right up there with France."
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