Staying the Course

Just for the record, I still support the President. I have not jumped ship, lost my nerve, wavered in my convictions or confidence in his leadership. Despite the Conservative and Republican leaders who’ve come out publicly against ‘the surge’, I remain 100% behind George W. Bush. Sam Brownback, right on life – wrong on reaching out to Iran. Norm Coleman, great on the UN Oil for Food investigation – bad on beating back Baathists in Baghdad. John Warner, fine on increasing the size of the Army – weak on giving our troops the chance to win. Hagel, Snowe and Voinovich – RINOs all and ready to ‘cut & run’ along with every Democrat in Congress. How is it that among the 280 democrats in Congress, not one thinks that Iraq is worth the effort? What if Lot came to the Democrats today looking for just ten good men in order to avoid disaster? Could he find anyone other than Joe Liebermann and would the entire democrat party be turned into a pillar of salt?
The question today is – are we at war with Islam or Terrorism and is Islam a religion that espouses violence? Not all Muslims are terrorists and not all terrorists are Muslims, but All the Terrorists, we are at war with, are engaged in terror in the name of Islam. And furthermore, regardless of whether or not the Koran preaches violent Jihad against infidels, 100% of those, who seek to do us harm, are motivated by their belief in Islam. In other words, our enemies are engaged in a religious war while we are basically seeking security from their terror tactics. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that our will to fight (as a society as a whole), has diminished while the Jihadists’ Islamic fervor (which has burned in the hearts of Muslims for centuries and) will burn for as long as they believe they can defeat the West.
Let’s be honest, three times more Americans die every year, from errant prescriptions, than have been killed in Iraq since the initial liberation began in March of 2003. More pedestrians die in U.S. cities every year than the 3,000 soldiers killed in Iraq since 3/03.
Every year; 7,000 Americans die from accidental poisoning, 45,000 Americans are killed on our highways and 200,000 die from Cancer yet we don’t hear democrats bemoaning their loss, we don’t see the Media counting each death in headline after headline and we don’t see liberals mounting marches to protest these tragedies. Obviously, they don’t really care about the loss of human life. What they do care about is using the deaths of our brave volunteer soldiers to harm the Bush administration, to promote our failure in Iraq and to gain politically even at the expense of our Country’s security.
By and large, you don’t hear the troops themselves or their families belly-aching about the battle losses in Iraq. Quite to the contrary, it is these fine people who are amongst the strongest supports of the President and his efforts in Iraq and I for one, am proud to count myself among them.