Good piece, Larrey. True statesmen are probably pretty rare, unfortunately, but that's always our hope when we elect someone to the highest office of the free world. I'm probably one of the last Bush supporters to come around to admitting my various disappointments, and I do so reluctantly. The years of hatred dumped on him from the foaming-at-the-mouth left (from before day one) always made me feel like defending him. Hopefully history can record in a fair way both his failings and his successes-- the latter of which, all too often, went unacknowledged.