Kowabunga

In a Star-Tribune Opinion piece, Coleen Rowley, a DFLer seeking the nomination for the Second Congressional District in 2006, writes:

There had been some early signs of clarity, however, despite the continuing disintegration of Iraq. With their eyes fixed on what apparently matters the most to them (the 2006 congressional elections), the president and his generals had begun to think of "cutting and running."

Of course, that's not what they'd call it. But avoiding the same drawn-out, bloody end as occurred in Vietnam is reason enough to let the administration play loose with its terms ... and perhaps even the truth.

The last I checked, although the terrorists are continuing their murderous attacks, the Liberation of Iraq has been, and still is, an overwhelming success. The first democratically elected government in several decades, free elections, women allowed to vote, the shut-down of the Saddam Hussein's torture chambers, and the rape rooms of his sons. A far cry from Vietnam, a war that was lost by "liberal" politicians to weak in the knees to do what was right, and prevent the communist takeover of South Vietnam, despite our treaty to support South Vietnam after the withdrawal of U.S. ground troops in 1973.

Furthermore, I resent her implication that the Bush Administration, the RNC, and Republicans in general are only concerned about the next election. This is patently false, and Rowley is politicizing the war on terrorism for her own political gain.

Rowley is another one of those week-in-the-knee wanna-be politicians, who is the type to cut and run, abandoning the newly freed peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan to succumb to tyranny. The people of Iraq are not yet ready to take full control of their country's security, however, it is getting better, and that day looks to be on the not to distant horizon.

And even if Iraq were "another Vietnam", as the "liberal" elites purport, why are our military men and women re-enlisting in record numbers? Answer: they recognize, overwhelmingly, that this job needs to be done.

She further writes:

Ending American/British occupation of Iraq will also remove at least some ideological fuel of the violent extremism that has caused terrorist attacks elsewhere in the world.

It is not the occupation of Iraq that is fueling terrorist attacks, it is their hatred of Western Culture and the Ideology of Liberty and Justice For All that is fueling these attacks.

Rowley, and many other leftists of her stripe, fail to realize a few important facts: the acts of terrorism in Iraq are being performed by freedom hating terrorists bent on murder, not insurgents. Many of these terrorists that Rowley refers to as "insurgents" are not, be definition, insurgents, but foreign agitators (terrorists), who have sworn allegiance to al-Qaeda.

Another point is that by abandoning Iraq, as she supports, we would be communicating to terrorists throughout the world that the United States does not have the will to counter their murderous acts, thus giving them the strength to execute greater acts of terrorism, and seek the means to carry these acts out within the United States.

This is an important fact to remember, that these cultures look at the "peace at any cost" movement as a sign of weakness, and the last thing we need is to display weakness.

The only way to defeat terrorism is to stand strong, united and vigilant, and to seek out and destroy terrorist cells wherever they might be entrenched. A show of strength is the only thing that they understand and respect, although it will not stop their rampages until they are completely eradicated.-----