National Security is not supposed to be a partisan issue. If it has become a partisan issue it is the Democrats' fault.
Whenever I hear President Bush rightly responding to bogus Democratic lies, I harken back to Barry Goldwater's brilliant comment in 1964:
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."
It is what has kept the US safe and free the past 230 years.
Somebody needs to write a book about 21st Century Warfighting so that America can understand the big picture on how a war is actually fought.