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Yours is one of the few replies that takes this seriously. This is a shot across the bow of the Congressional Democrats and their driveby media who think they can just snap their fingers, say America is bad and all the terrorists will sing Kumbaya with them. The whole idea that we could walk away from Iraq without consequences just like we did in Vietnam is juvenile and naive.

The consequences to our nation would be devastating. Terrorism and terrorists will be greatly emboldened by our perceived defeat. They wouldn't stop, rather, they would bring it to us once more. The whole Middle East would go up in flames, and the West would pay through the nose. Guys like Hugo Chavez of Venezuela would be able to charge $200 a barrel for their oil, and we'd pay it. Russia's oil would also sell for a steep price. Perhaps this is something they (meaning our enemies, i.e., countries opposed to us) look forward to.

President Bush is right to advocate staying the course. Who thought this was going to be easy? Not him. He said so in the address to Congress after 9/11. Everyone cheered him. His approval ratings jumped up into the high 80's percentiles.

Yet now when there's been a price to pay, and not much of a price in terms of casualties at all compared to other wars, with a professional military eager to go on despite this, everyone runs around like Chicken Little declaring we've lost or cannot win and must get out.

We can win this. We need to continue what we're doing. IF we can bring a stabilized Iraq to the Middle East, our troubles with terrorist groups like Al Qeada will diminish. The average Joe Muslim will have an alternative between fundamentalism and totalitarian dictatorship. Perhaps it will fail, and all the Iraqis will sink into a never-ending whirlpool of violence and hatred. But we've barely begun, and to declare failure before we've been defeated is, IMHO, un-American.

This is a shot across the bow of the Congressional Democrats who think they can just snap their fingers, say America is wrong and all the bad guys will sing Kumbaya with them.