Posted on 07/14/2004 6:04:14 AM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
President Bush did the other day what he has done too seldom. He defended the war in Iraq, explaining what he thought it had accomplished and why he believed it justified. "Although we have not found stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, we were right to go into Iraq," he said. "We removed a declared enemy of America who had the capability of producing weapons of mass murder and could have passed that capability to terrorists bent on acquiring them. In the world after September the 11th, that was a risk we could not afford to take."
There was more to his argument, of course. He pointed to positive changes in Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, for instance. But in a nutshell, the above quote says it: To have left Iraq to have gone its merry way would have been to have taken an enormous and unforgivable chance after the wake-up call of losing 3,000 lives on a single day of terror in 2001. America, said Bush, was safer because of the war and other Bush initiatives, and it almost certainly is.
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Howie Carr calls them the Lame Stream Media (as they take orders from the New York Times). I think it fits. :)
When Billy boy was in office, I could not put on the TV without being assaulted with his voice and image on all and sundry. I actually hated the news, it was all Billy boy all the time.
One of the most onerous burdens of public leadership against an implacable enemy is that information is a strategic element on both sides of the battle. Giving away too much of your plans and strategies informs your adversary, preventing execution of any deep, long-term strategy, while failing to inform your public is too easily viewed as poor leadership, inviting internal criticism.
The apparent luxury of waiting for perfect information before acting disappeared almost three years ago, although too many still cling to the fiction that talk and temporizing are the proper response to the murderous plots of our enemies. President Bush has been exactly right on the most important decisions of his presidency, and John Kerry has been equally wrong over his entire tenure in the Senate. Going into Iraq was the right decision; timely, decisive and courageous, as well as being the trigger to one of the most successful military operations in history. Criticism of it as a military operation has amounted to mere quibbling, the timid bleatings of those left behind when the call to action sounded.
The aftermath has not proceeded as well, but much of the difficulty has been caused by the nefarious interventions and obstructionism of the likes of the French and German "allies" who, having lost the source of their illicit funds, show their resentment at the cost of hundreds to thousands of Iraqi and American lives, and millions of dollars.
Worse, both Kerry and Edwards are too intelligent NOT to know the monumental hypocrisy of their pronouncements. They are dissembling, with full consciousness of their actions and the harm they are causing. I dismiss the permanent opposition - the Michael Moores of the world - because their hysterical hatred is clearly irrational. But the malignancy of the opportunists freezes the blood.
Its called the Bully Pulpit and Bush can ask at ANYTIME for AIRTIME and he will be granted it. When he gave speeches such as those at the War College he DIDNT ASK for airtime. Bush has a terrible PR team.
"Howie Carr calls them the Lame Stream Media (as they take orders from the New York Times). I think it fits. :)"
I call them the Fraudcast LameScream Media...close enough, I guess.
Close enough for guvvament work! :)
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