You're welcome, jjrdias, and welcome to OriginalTrilogy.com. Thank YOU for your kind words. I hope you meet a lot of good folks here and find some other great projects to interest you.
focuspuller, you just wrote the best post I've seen on this board in a long time. You echo my entire reason for fan editing, and it's why I'm following this release so closely. I can tell you care so much for the music that this will be something extra special, and your motivations are now all the more pure.
The great mistake of this war was making it about WMD in the first place. If we had simply said we were going into finish HW's job and remove Saddam, then we wouldn't be in the same political mess we're in now. But instead we (a) made the issue about WMDs, which turned out to be a trillion-dollar snipe hunt, and (b) we engaged in a full de-Baathification of the country afterward, ruining the infrastructure necessary to provide stability in the country. This latter process is the most grievous because Dubya didn't understand that there was a difference between a Sunni and a Shiite at the time we were preparing to invade. I'm not making that up. He had no concept whatsoever that there are denominal differences in Islam just like there are in Christianity and Judaism. Some RADICAL differences. Google link about Bush's ignorance on the matter. Read 'em yourself.
Few people on this planet will stand up for Saddam. But there is every reason in the world to criticize the decision to invade when we were engaged in more important matters elsewhere, the execution of the post-war "plan" and the stubborn adherence to a failed policy because to admit a mistake opens one up to liabilities of the gravest sort. Mission Accomplished indeed.
My son is about to turn 5 and this is the age we've talked about for a long time that he be able to watch Star Wars.
Unfortunately it'll be the OT only, because Ep II and III are WAY to intense for him. It's a bit unfortunate that the prequels were so dark, though I can't imagine them being any lighter.
Along these lines, is there a way to put the bold on the Forum Index page? I tend to find my self abandoning the site a lot by default when I come to the forum index page and see all of the topics not bolded. It's an indicator to me that there is no new content.
I also like the idea from the old forum whereby all threads are marked as read upon closing the session. At least, I think that's how it used to work.