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Before going any further, I also would like to thank you for all your hard work. It really is appreciated around here.

I have not surveyed AZ Republicans if that is what you mean. I have only talked to my friends and acquaintances, here and in a number of other US cities.

I do tend to knee jerk, that is true. I have flesh and blood treasure at stake in this war and it tends to skew one's emotions. It is not a good excuse, but the only one I can offer right now.

However, I also have eyes to see and ears to hear what is around me. I can see we are not winning the war at home. And we have lost the hearts and minds of the American people (I can read polls and I can talk to friends). You may be right about the Republican voters, but you will have to show me a poll to that effect to prove that point to me.

If we are expecting to win this war, we are going to have to win the war at home. Or bin-Laden will have been proven right once again when he said we simply don't have the stomach for war.

It is the responsibility of the administration to win that war at home... and so far, they are losing.

The army and the Iraqi government gave Bush some traction last week. This event with the soldiers being taking hostage (if that is indeed what happened) will undoubtedly be used by our enemies fellow travelers to undermined the war at home. I would expect to see something to counter it soon.

The media is winning an insignificant "how do FEEL about the" war. When it comes to winning the war at home the most important thing is that we are in power and we stay in power because as long as we are in power we will keep fighting and winning this war on terror in general and in the Iraqi theater in particular.

The Left and their media are doing all this treason of underming the war so that the democrats will win the elections and impeach Bush. However when people are going to vote they will not vote for the Party of Defeat, it never happened before and it will not happen now. The American people will not elect defeatist to power.

The war in Vietnam was vastly less popular than this Iraq war, and millions of people were often taken to the street to demonstrate against the war and our casualties were 20 times higher than in this Iraq war on terror but nothing close to this is happening in this war. Despite all this, the democrat candidates who advocated cut and run and defeat were crushed in the 1968 and 1972 presidential elections. The same happened to the democrats in 2004 and it will happen again in 2006.

If the majority of "real voters" are for cut and run and against the war the Senate would not have voted 91-6 to refuse cut and run or to set an deadline for withdrawal including most democrats. The same happen in the house 256-143 including 42 democrats who know that of they vote for cut and run from Iraq they are going to lose.