Brit Hume on Fox News Sunday had one of the best summations of the realities of war (the realities the Democrats want to ignore so they can bash the president) we've heard in a while:
Once again Chris, we're down to this question of whether people believe we are at war, really at war, or engaged instead in some kind of a war in name only...like a 'war on cancer', a metaphorical war, or a real war.
In a real war, terrible things happen. The enemy behaves in ways that are unpredictable, and often successfully. You have terrible setbacks. Operations that should take a short time take a long time, and sometimes the other way around. You have great victories, you have important defeats, and it drags on for a while, a lot of people get killed. That's what happens in a real war. And that's what happened in all real wars.
In this particular case, if you don't believe we're really at war, then this whole operation in Iraq seems like a misbegotten military adventure.
The Democrats' constant unserious carping, egged on by the Adolescent Angry Left, trying to undermine the president at every opportunity for partisan political gain, is evidence they do not believe we are in a real war (or they do believe we are in a real war, but put partisanship ahead of national security concerns any way, which would be worse).
Like we said before:
The Democrats think the enemy is the Bush administration. Republicans think the enemy is radical Islamic terrorism. Voters must decide which view they agree with in November.
That's really the choice voters need to make in November and in 2008 - are we in a real war or aren't we?
If we are really at war against a "Islamofacism" and "The war of the Century" Why dosen't it
feel like a war. The American people are not being asked to make any sacrifices. There is no draft,
no war tax, to gasoline tax, and no sacrifices are being asked of the American people. Instead
we get tax cuts, pleanty of gas and other people's kids go fight the war. And we do not see the
pain, death and destruction. We are protected from it. Don't blame the democrates. Bush want sit both ways
becasue if he did these things, support fo rthe war would fade very quickly.
Comment by Stefano — September 4, 2006 @ 7:47 pm September 4, 2006