Uuhhh....weekly terrorist attacks are what you consider peace? I don't think today's Baghdad is safer than the one before the war. Maybe the terrorist attacks will end some day and then it may be safer, but so far you can't call that peace.Iraq is no longer a place where the citizentry is in a state of suffering. That's peace to me, even if the means to achieve it was not peaceful.
As for the whole "insulting the people by insulting the leader", you must keep in mind that many of the people who voted Bush back thyen may not like him, or voted him because they considered him "the lesser evil".
Also, you can bash my president as much as you want, and the next one, and the next one. Could that mean you are doubting the integrity and intelligence of the people in my country? No problem, I doubt about it too. Not only the people in my country, just humanity in general. Call it misanthropy if you want, but it's the reason why I have little faith in modern democracy.
