“Baghdad is liberated. In the days to come let us not forget that if it was not for one man, and one man alone — George Bush — the people of Iraq would not be celebrating in the streets and pulling down Saddam's statues today… We have entered the era of a new civil war between the forces of freedom and the powers of Islamo-fascist and communist darkness, and once again the left is clearly determined to take its stand on the other side. The good news is that America is back. Our military has performed superlatively. Our leadership has stood tall. We ourselves can celebrate over this and look confidently towards what lies ahead.”

—  David Horowitz

[David, Horowitz, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7189, Editorial: Liberation, FrontPageMagazine.com, April 9, 2003, 2007-02-17]
2003

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