As I watched the cocky little man who many call the president cascade across the ballroom floor in celebration, American forces struggled to hang on to Mosul by launching another fruitless offensive, in response to a wave of deadly car bombings that rocked Iraq. While the acting president called on Americans to be patient while he spread freedom into all the dark corners of the world, the feared terror leader Musab al-Zarqawi issued a statement to the Iraqi people, preparing them for a struggle. While Bush danced and laughed and reveled in his newly gained “political capital”, the government appears more divided than anytime in recent memory, and the nation is sharply divided.