-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on Sat, Sep. 11, 2004 MISSING METTLE Bush has the guts that Kerry lacks to take America through these difficult times CONNIE LYNNE CARRILLO DICK WRIGHT/Tribune Media Services DICK WRIGHT/Tribune Media Services Sept. 11, 2001, was an epiphany for President Bush. We witnessed him digging deep, gathering strength and rising to the occasion. He courageously blazed a trail against a terrorist, rogue nation harboring al-Qaida. He rid the world of trigger-happy, homicidal maniac Saddam Hussein and his bloodthirsty dynasty of lunatic successors. Cut-throat Gadhafi is on his back, all fours in the air, begging for mercy. The world...