"True Conservatives", Oh please.
The first and very important step to fight and win the war on terror is to be military present in the Middle East and in a big way. The war on terror is not a police action (liberal belief) where we just go an capture a terrorist from here and a terrorist from there. It is about destroying the terrorist organizations, and the regimes that support them. One of these regimes was Saddam Hussein. Iraq is strategically at the heart of the geo-political Middle East and any change in Iraq will effect the whole region. We removed Saddam first because he is the most dangerous and the most unstable among all the rogue regimes that support terrorism. Many terrorists are pouring to Iraq to fight us, and we will kill most of them and eventually break the backbone of terrorism worldwide. It is better that they fight us I Iraq then they fight us here in our cities.
Being born and raised in Lebanon during the civil war, I understand the islamofacists much better than most people in the US and the West and I know that the only way to destroy them is to eliminate them militarily, period.
The terrorist insurgency in Iraq is doomed to fail and lose because of the following:
It is supported only by a minority among the Sunni Iraqis Arabs who themselves are a minority in the general population to begin with.
It does not have the geographical depth, it is only concentrated in the central part of Iraq.
It does not have an organized leadership.
It does not have any defined goals beside just killing Americans and Iraqis. Twenty or thirty thousand terrorist cannot and will not beat the American military, the mightiest military in history of mankind.
We are winning this war on Iraq and we will defeat this terrorist insurgency. We will win the war on terror.