In For The Long Haul

President Bush gave a speech from Fort Bragg, N.C. addressing the fears of the American public regarding the war in Iraq. Fears that have only been fed by news networks that still refuse to report on any positive events coming out of Iraq. They subtly drop words like quagmire, Viet-Nam like and bogged-down, thus creating the impression that there is no forward progress by American forces and strategies in the conflict.

Lawmakers on both sides have been getting nervous over the results of recent polls that indicate that the American people are getting tired of the war. Thus, they have called for various actions, i.e. immediate withdrawl of troops, the development of a clear exit strategy, the deployment of more troops and many other wishy-washy contradictctory actions.

Immediately after the speech, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA(doh!) admonished the President for his many references to the attacks on September 11. 2001. She said the many references just showed the weakness of his arguments and that the President failed to deliver on specifics for a clear strategy.

News netwoeks are reporting that Iraqis are saying that the President's speech only made things worse and that the U.S. troop presence is unwelcome. However, there were no names of any Iraqi leaders attached to these claims.

The Left is so full of crap, it is hard to figure how anyone can support their claims with a straight face, But I know it is because they rely on the ill-informed, the dumb and dumberers and the haters of their party to espouse their lines and lack of reason and logic. Once again, they attempt to get to the emotion of a problem without thinking.

I guess we all heard what we wanted to hear, or not to here in the Left's case. I heard a plan that really needed no further specific rhetoric.. I heard a speech that inspired my confidence and trust in the President and our military strategists.

What it came down to for me was this, the President said "Setting an artificial timetable would send the wrong message to the Iraqis — who need to know that America will not leave before the job is done. It would send the wrong message to our troops — who need to know that we are serious about completing the mission they are risking their lives to achieve. And it would send the wrong message to the enemy — who would know that all they have to do is to wait us out. We will stay in Iraq as long as we are needed — and not a day longer."

Furthermore, as for his references to 9/11, isn't that what this is all about? We needed a battlefield for the war on terror and now we have A LOT of terrorist gathered in one place where we can engage them while making a once despotic country free. Moreover, these same terrorists are not busy trying to blow themselves up here in the U.S.

So this, to me, is a win/win strategy. If we don't have Iraq, we have no way of taking the fight to the terrorists.