Posted on 09/14/2003 5:22:20 AM PDT by mhking
Granted, it may be presumptuous to take on the worry of how well President George W. Bush is handling the war in Iraq.
But worry I do - especially when the usual suspects on the Democratic disinformation steamroller make try to mislead Americans about the leadership capabilities of our president.
On Sept. 11, 2001, this nation was attacked by men dedicated to our destruction. The day after that, just as Presidents Reagan and Clinton had done in the past after brushes with terrorism, President Bush made an emotional commitment to the American people: The attack by our enemies would not go unpunished.
On that day - one I believe is comparable to the attack on Pearl Harbor - a scared and disoriented America thanked God that a president of character and strength had been elected to lead us.
Perhaps I shouldn't be so certain that every American felt and believed as I did. Certainly there were some who argued in the streets of Manhattan, even while the bodies of office workers, firefighters and police officers were still being recovered, that the United States had brought upon itself the attack that toppled the twin towers.
It was even reported that some wept for the suffering of Palestinians and their radical Arab brethren while turning a hardened heart to the death and destruction that had befallen the occupants of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
But that was then, and this is now.
The rubble has been cleared from ground zero, and the hole in the Pentagon has been repaired. Life among those Americans who didn't count a loved one or a friend among the 3,016 people who perished on that fated day has gone on as usual - including business as usual for the Democrats.
They may have put on a face of unified support for President Bush in a time of national tragedy, but the reality was that they were stewing about the fact that his posture after the attack had contributed greatly to his popularity among the American people.
And so, the party of the left began a campaign of disinformation designed to chip away at the president's increasing political popularity.
Their prime directive was to convince America that George Bush had failed to live up to his promise to the American people: that he would capture Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and locate Iraq's cache of weapons of mass destruction.
Most recently, Democratic presidential candidates meeting in Washington, D.C., took the president to task, rebuking him for creating a quagmire in Iraq and a police state at home.
With the help of the media, Democrats pressed the view that American soldiers may be dying for futile reasons in Iraq.
I am convinced that Democrats lack the backbone to truly defend America, and that belief makes me worry that their campaign to cut the president down might be effective.
But then I read an essay in the Wall Street Journal that revealed the Democrats for what they are: a party of deception that will do anything to try to win an election.
The essay by Karl Zinsmeister, an American journalist embedded with our military during the invasion of Iraq, reported that a Zogby International poll of Iraqis revealed that our post-war efforts may be paying off far better than the media and the Democrats would have us believe.
"Iraqis are optimistic. Seven out of 10 say they expect their country and personal lives will be better in five years," according to Zogby.
When asked to name one country they would like Iraq to be modeled after, "the most popular model by far was the U.S.," preferred by 37 percent.
Zogby found no overwhelming support among Iraqis for a fundamentalist Islamic government in Iraq.
The message to America seems clear to me. Bite the bullet and stay the course. America will break the back of the terrorists and anarchists who believe if they kill enough Americans, our determination will erode.
And, most important, don't be dissuaded by self-serving Democratic political propaganda.
Veteran radio talk-show host Ken Hamblin (bac@compuserve.com; www.hamblin.com) writes Sundays in The Post.
Can't repeat this often enough!
Good for Zogby for even reporting something that may support Bush. The Iraqis need to realize that if they don't want a fundamentalist Islamic government, they will have to oppose fundamentalist Islamics in their midst. This is not just a fact for Iraqis, but for all who support freedom of religion (including those who support Islam who believe in freedom of religion-- even if it is a small group)
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