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In a recent commentary, former New York Mayor Ed Koch - a Democrat with at least half a brain (which makes him the leading intellectual light of his party) - asked rhetorically, "Why do so many Americans refuse to face the fact that our country is at war with international terrorism?" Because they're liberals? During the Spanish Civil War, as the climactic battle for Madrid approached, Nationalist leader Francisco Franco told a reporter: "I have four columns marching on Madrid and a fifth within the city ready to rise at my call." Franco's comment gave rise to the World War...

THOSE PROTESTING THE IRAQ CONFLICT AREN'T PRO-PEACE AS MUCH AS THEY'RE ANTI-AMERICAN A Speech By Don Feder At A Rally For Our Troops At Notre Dame University, April 10, 2003 I could speak to you today about the justice and necessity of our intervention in Iraq. I could focus on our military – the courage, tenacity, skill and sacrifice of our fighting men. I could speak of the evils of Saddam Hussein’s fascist regime and the clear and present danger it posed to the American people. Instead, I want to talk about the anti-war movement, so-called – because there’s a...