Good article. Now is the time, in order to get it over and done before next year's elections. Middle America will applaud, the French will wring their hands and dither in their latte, but history will approve.

New York Post Online Edition: postopinion: "November 5, 2003 -- WHILE our occupation of Iraq is going vastly better than the media suggests, there is certainly room for improvement. But doing a better job requires taking unpopular measures and weathering the inevitable criticism from those who, never having done anything themselves, always know better what everyone else should do."