America's Churchill (President Bush)

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY ^ | Friday, March 12, 2004 | Editor

[Isara]

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Terrorism: The bombs that exploded in Madrid's train stations were more than a great tragedy. They were a new call to arms for democratic nations everywhere, which again find their very existence under assault.

With 200 estimated dead and 1,200 or so injured, the synchronized blasts that tore through Madrid on Thursday have revived fears of a renewed anti-West terror campaign.

Though early speculation in the Madrid explosions centered on Basque separatists, it now seems more likely al-Qaida was behind them. On Thursday, a letter purporting to be from the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, an arm of Osama bin Laden's terrorist group, claimed credit for the shameful act in Spain.

If so, let this be a new wake-up call. Though some seem to forget, the U.S. and the rest of the democratic world have been at war with fundamentalist terrorists since Sept. 11, 2001 — and, if we had only recognized it, well before then.

For America and other free nations, it won't be enough to mourn the losses and put more police on the beat. We must band together and be prepared to fight those who would tear down all the wonderful things that Western civilization represents. If we don't, we'll surely lose them — to our eternal regret.

The time for equivocation is through. We don't need more Neville Chamberlains, the man who thought "appeasement" would end Hitler's threat. We do need more Winston Churchills, though. For we have been challenged, and our culture will not survive in the long term if it doesn't answer with Churchillian resilience.

Fortunately, we think America has a Churchill: someone who sees clearly the threat we live under, and will act to end that threat. His name is George W. Bush. He's our president.

What's shocking to us is the vitriol Bush continues to receive, despite the job he's done protecting America from renewed attacks. He's called a "liar" and a "warmonger" for taking the very steps Americans demanded after 9-11 to keep us safe.

Well, maybe the massacre in Spain, a loyal ally in the fight against terrorism, will serve as a reminder to those in the U.S. who have forgotten what's happened since September 2001. We sure haven't.

Let's review what's passed since that awful day:

• We defeated the Taliban, and helped Afghanistan move to a constitutional government.

• We defeated Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which just this week approved its own constitution and now has both the liveliest free press in the Islamic Mideast and a recovering economy.

• We killed or captured the majority of al-Qaida's leadership (though, clearly, not yet all of them — or enough of them).

• We encouraged a nascent pro-democracy movement in Iran.

• We isolated PLO leader Yassir Arafat, and revealed him to be the terrorist he always was.

• We pushed Libya into giving up its nuclear program, while scaring North Korea back to the negotiating table over its own nukes.

Way back in World War II, the U.S. was similarly challenged. And, thanks to the extraordinary leadership of FDR and Churchill, we won. We need the same courage, common sense, vision and competence today.

Thankfully, we think we already have it.

[Isara]

Thank you, Mr. President.

[texasflower]

Thank you Mr. President is right.

We have been blessed to have this man as our President during these painful times.

No one else could have upheld this nation they way he has.

[Kay]

Amen.

[Jewels1091]

Yes we already have that leadership.....but are we smart enough to keep it?????

[The G Man]

"America's Churchill"

YOU SAID IT!

[KarlInOhio]

We don't need more Neville Chamberlains, the man who thought "appeasement" would end Hitler's threat. We do need more Winston Churchills, though.

Before I saw this I was working on a new tagline. Looks like this is the place to test drive it.

[ladtx]

Uh--Ohhhhh. The Dems aren't going to like this one bit.

Now the author of this piece needs to associate Kerry to Chamberlain.

[BigBobber]

If I remember right, Churchill was turned out of office shortly after helping to win WWII. I thought that's what this article would be about. Bush deserves a better fate.

[Isara]

Yes we already have that leadership.....but are we smart enough to keep it?????

Yes, we are. Thanks to talk radio and internet.

[Puppage]

America's Churchill (President Bush)

Yeah, and the subjects of England promptly voted PM Churchill out of office during the Pottsdam Conference after he saved their butts.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Down with the treasonous, DemonRAT, koward Kerry!! Long live GW Bush, Sheik of Sheiks, Avenger of the Bones!!
And down with American Traitors and Their Treasonous Treachery.

[SunkenCiv]

Just wait... it won't be long before the lunatic fringe (meaning in this case, the so-called Democrats) blame this and other current activity on GWB. So far he's been blamed for 9/11 and by association with the rise of Hitler.

"Winston, if you were my husband I'd poison your tea." "Madame, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."

[TexasRepublic]

The outrage in Madrid may have the unintended effect to remind Americans that terrorist still exists and they may choose a safer course in November by re-electing a known quantity (Bush) than an unknown quantity (Kerry).

[DrDeb]

Dittos: THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH!

[CGVet58]

well, just saw your tagline, and i must respectfully say that you give willie too much credit - he could never hold Chamberlain's jockstrap.

True, both are appeasers, erroneously believing that not confronting tyranny was the best way - but Chamberlain, to his credit, exhibited enough character after events proved him tragically wrong to not mount any kind of opposition against the war effort. He was wrong, he knew his name would forever be associated with the failure to pre-empt a brutal enemy and thus a failure to prevent the loss of millions of lives. Yet he remained silent.

Has Clinton, or Carter, or Gore or any other leftist who inhabit the party of the "enemy-within" done likewise? No.

Chamberlain, in the classic Greek sense of the word, was a tragic figure.

The other entities I've referred to above more closely resemble vermin, and have the mark of Quisling upon them.

So - in a nutshell - don't insult Chamberlain by the comparison. The man had his own unique hell as he lived through the horrible fruits of his labor - but he did it silently, and never strove to weaken the Briton resolve in their greatest test.

CGVet58

[RonHolzwarth]

You DO remember right, Churchill was turned out of office shortly after helping to win WWII, and that made Stalin REAL, REAL HAPPY!!!

And, he didn't have FDR to deal with anymore, either.

So, Eastern Europe was handed to him on a silver platter. The Soviets feasted upon it for decades.

Churchill and FDR knew what Stalin was up to, and never trusted him. They never planned hand over Eastern Europe to the Soviets, but their successors felt differently,,,

Eisenhower didn't know what was really going on, until it was far to late.

By the way,
PLEASE DO NOT confuse the Soviets with the Russians!

Then, Europe was divided into OUR sphere of influence (which became independent, democratic countries), and the nations that Stalin enslaved for years. Even today, they are still struggling their way out of the poverty that the Soviets imposed upon them.

Churchill's memoirs are very interesting reading.

[BJungNan]

You should see the garbage running on MSNBC trying to say that Bush need to learn the lessons of Churchill. Bush, more than any president in a long time, knows very well what Churchill warned about.

If Bush has been president in FRD's time, Nazi Germany would have been dealt with mush sooner. Here is the link Click Here

[Law is not justice but process]

"Way back in World War II, the U.S. was similarly challenged. And, thanks to the extraordinary leadership of FDR and Churchill, we won."

You know, I was just thinking about WWII this morning. Think of where we were, militarily, in the beginning of January 1942 versus where we were in early June 1942. In January we had just had Pearl Harbor, the US Army was cornered in Bataan in the Philippines, Nazi U-Boats were running rampant in the Atlantic, and the home front was in a panic. By early June we had struck back at Tokyo with the Doolittle Raid, we had stopped the southern progress of the Japanese with the Battle of the Coral Sea, we had soundly defeated the Japanese fleet in the Battle of Midway, and we were planning the invasion of North Africa.

Similarly, In December of 1944 we were reeling from the German offensive in the Ardennes (The Battle of the Bulge) and it looked like our advance in Europe was stopped at the Siegfried Line. By May 1945 Hitler was dead and the War was over.

It is amazing how much the tides of war can change in four or five months.

[Law is not justice but process]

"Way back in World War II, the U.S. was similarly challenged. And, thanks to the extraordinary leadership of FDR and Churchill, we won."

You know, I was just thinking about WWII this morning. Think of where we were, militarily, in the beginning of January 1942 versus where we were in early June 1942. In January we had just had Pearl Harbor, the US Army was cornered in Bataan in the Philippines, Nazi U-Boats were running rampant in the Atlantic, and the home front was in a panic. By early June we had struck back at Tokyo with the Doolittle Raid, we had stopped the southern progress of the Japanese with the Battle of the Coral Sea, we had soundly defeated the Japanese fleet in the Battle of Midway, and we were planning the invasion of North Africa.

Similarly, In December of 1944 we were reeling from the German offensive in the Ardennes (The Battle of the Bulge) and it looked like our advance in Europe was stopped at the Siegfried Line. By May 1945 Hitler was dead and the War was over.

It is amazing how much the tides of war can change in four or five months.