things were looking up?
BTW, if I was going to make up something about Chris and the Iraq War, why in the world wouldn't I claim that he supported entering it? Wouldn't that be a far more damaging charge? But that's not what happened and it so happens that at a point when this board was chock full of rah-rah chickenhawks, he was willing to conform to a certain extent and agree that positive signs were emerging from Iraq.