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To: unclewest who wrote (192529)	1/11/2007 8:25:32 AM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793905

Look Uncle West, I can't argue with your logic nor can I argue with your experience. What I can argue with is your impatience. The Commander in Chief is not fighting the war in Iraq. He is attempting to marshal opinion and to gain and extend support. And he is aware of the Monday morning quarterbacks, the nay-sayers, the negative hobgoblins and the Democrats who lurk in every nook and cranny of the globe waiting to bring him down or to derisively counter every idea, every assertion, every plan that he and his coterie of advisors and generals put on the table. I think if you will go back and READ that so-called uninspiring war making speech, you will discover that Bush is quite clear in both his resolve and in his planning. He cannot turn the Iraq war into an American war. He can continue to insist that America will stick by its commitments to help Iraq become a free and independent democracy in the midst of terrorist anarchy and Islamic idiocy. Yes, it will be a slow process. Yes, we could do the job better and faster by ourselves. Yes, we could bring the Iraq insurgents to their knees and put them in their graves a lot faster if we just shoved the Iraq forces aside and told Malik to go pound dirt. But what would be the effect? A shorter war, perhaps, but a permanent occupation. And the enmity of all Arabic and Islamic nations and peoples for the next 200 years. Bush is doing what he must do. He is being consistent with his often stated purpose: to plant the seeds of democracy in an extremely hostile land. And you achieve democracy in a viscious and totalitarian state not by bludgeoning the population into submission but by enlisting them on the side of freedom and freedom to choose. There will be no armistice. They will be no surrender. There will be no signing of a peace treaty. But victory will come and it will come as a result of what Bush and his allies are committed to do in Iraq. Meanwhile, we hunker down and work and wait, much as the British had to hunker down in the face of the Nazi onslaught. And they prevailed over a tyranny that cowered most men in the street and caused Nevil Chamberlain and others to look for the easy way out without success. And so shall we prevail.