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Thanks, Incredibly well said, and needed. It's just incomprehensible to me that the Democratic Presidential hopefuls have all been pulled by Howard Dean into a totally anti-war position. There is simply no way for the eventual nominee to pull himself back to the center, so this election will be referendum on this War for Freedom and US Security.

Sadly, this just might be the one issue that could turn against George W. Bush and give the 'Rats a chance to win. I don't think it will happen. Americans have a good sense of the big issues we're facing, and the Democrats have not--and will not--made a coherent case against the war.

"Americans have a good sense of the big issues we're facing"

I agree, and I would only add ALL AMERICANS. I don't think it is escaping anyone's notice. I remember last Christmas, over-hearing a black couple shopping for wrapping paper as I was, and the woman saying to the man (I paraphrase from memory) "Well, with all this talk of terrorism, I don't want to go to the mall now., Let's just finish up shopping here, in B...." That woman took the words right out of my mind. Do I think the she, and the millions like her (and me) is paying any less attention to the world today? No, I do not.

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I must disagree. I think that in most people's darkest places, they know that this isn't a fool's crusade. The argument about the war ends at the WTC. It undeniably happened, and responsibility for it was claimed by the people we fight today.

As long as that is true, the threat remains real and immediate and palpable. The 'devil we know' has proven he can successfully protect us from this threat for the last two years. As bad as it is or isn't over there (you can't get a feel for it from the media), we are moving faster to democratize Iraq than we did Japan.

Even the most liberal democrats believe this. I know because in moments of candor in the days after 9/11 they admitted as much. I know because many of my formerly active D's living in Manhattan admitted they voted for the first time for an R in any election.

If there ever was an issue that Bush will win on, Iraq is it.

I will say this, however: I'm not sure that there has ever been a more public act of sedition than that which is being perpetrated by the mainstream press. Prager is right, and everyone EVERYONE knows it.

Daily they abet and enbolden the enemy. I'm gratified to see their empires beginning to crumble.