Insurgents attempt to sway elections

It shouldn't come as any surprise that insurgents in Iraq have stepped up their attacks on Americans during the month of October. They know they have the America media in their pocket and they're trying to influence the upcoming elections in order to promote Democrats and liberals, most of whom would cut and run at the first opportunity. I don't believe Democrats are going to regain control of anything during the upcoming elections, however. Most Americans aren't that stupid, contrary to what the NYT thinks.

Mainstream media, and especially those here in America, are the best friends the enemy has. CNN recently even went so far as to display a tape of enemy fighters sniping a number of America soldiers in hit and run operations. This would have been unheard of in an earlier time, when all Americans understood the dangers of such enemies and such actions and what they meant for the future of our nation. Now, anything that makes the Bush administration look bad is fair game.

Of course, the war has been handled poorly in many ways and so is subject to some valid criticism. For one thing, insufficient troops have been used in this effort--there should have been a crushing force used, with all the politically correct bullshit left somewhere else and the goal of total victory employed from the outset. And America returned control of Iraq to an unstable young government much too soon, before there was anything to control.

The only solution at this point is victory. We can't leave with that undone or else we're surrendering our future. Granted, Iraq has proven to be a magnet for radical Islamic maniacs, but that is a good thing. It has brought them to a place where they can be killed, instead of leaving them widely dispersed throughout the world, where they are relatively safe.

The old leftist talk that Iraq has "created terrorists" is simply bullshit. It has simply exposed those who are for what they are.