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“It Was Not IRAQ.”

What? All the polls taken in the months prior to the election, and since, place the War in Iraq as a top issue among voters.

It’s time President Bush and the Republican Party accept the American public was not satisfied with their execution of the war. Americans are not afraid of war, and the overwhelming majority fully support our troops. They are dreadfully impatient with politicians that demand we fight a war with less than our full capability. The war should have been concluded in days or weeks, not fought for months and years with no end in sight.

It’s the same story with the War on Terrorism. Terrorism by definition is not merely the culmination of physical acts of violence. Terrorism is also the threat of such acts used to coerce an intended victim. We haven’t seen the 9-11 type attacks repeated, but President Bush and the Republicans have not eliminated the sources of the terrorist threats. Instead, he has been the overseer of a government that jumps through hoops with each threat at great government expense, disruption of daily life within our nation, and hardship on businesses. The terrorists don’t even have to commit another barbaric attack on our nation. They can just leak a threat, sit back, and watch as our government inconveniences our population and spends vast resources on something that the terrorists have may never intended to happen. That's what terrorism does, it terrorizes. That's what Islamic Jihad is! It only stops when silenced. Instead of permanently silencing the terrorist bastards the administration tells us to expect the terrorism to continue for 50 or 60 years, if not longer.

The only way to execute a war is by unleashing our full military capability against the enemy. The only way to stop the terrorists is by silencing them forever. Lacking those objectives many voters were left to ponder other possible remedies. Unfortunately, the Democratic remedies will fail to produce the desired results just as well as the Republican remedies did. But what the heck, voters, are tired of failure, and were left grasping at straws.