I am reminded of the saying " keep telling yourself that, and eventually you'll believe it" I see that there seems to be this sense of panic since the elections that Iraq has collapsed and the efforts in Iraq have been a total failure. For those people with selective short term memories I remind them that this talk of revolution and military failure began about a week after the fall of the Sadaam regime. When the militias started assaulting support elements the days of doom and failure started.

It is so sad that the liberal media is so bent on embarrassing the Bush administration it forgets history. As soon as on side shows weakness the other side begins taking advantage, it's what I would do. As the fanatics now attack Lebanon and try to restablish an Islamic state, they will do so believing the Congress of the United States doesn't have the backbone to stop them. and they would be right, The soon to be speaker of the house endorsed and incouraged the city of San Francisco to ban all military recruiting in schools and colleges. They have even gone so far as stop all funding for R.O.T.C and yet encourage anti American clubs to exist. And this is the person to lead the american congress?, God help us.

As most any Iraqi will tell you, there has always been secular division in that region. But today it is funded, fueled and directed by Iran, Syria and the fanatics that want desperatly to destroy western culture.

The " Iraq study group " has retrned their much anticipated opinion of what needs to be done and I must say I am not suprised at their findings. It is exactly as the press wanted it to be, negative, and filled with recomendations of running. I would like to point out a few things to these new experts on Iraq that they must have forgotton.

As far as needing more troops there that's not going to solve anything unless they are doing what the troops that are there now need to do, rule with an iron fist, it is the only real short term answer for the bullies running the streets. Does any honest person really wonder why Sadr is running wild in Bagdad? We had the chance to obliterate him and his entire militia but those on the left were to concerned with 'collateral damage", or as we now prefer to say innocent victims. What would've happened is the press would have been all over it and telecast as many dead and mutilated civilians as possible.

The region I worked in was one of the first to be turned over to the Iraqi Army, this was one year ago. There was never any indication or talk of revolution. to a man all the Iraqis I was able to speak with wanted stability and are willing to defend as best they can. The batallion of Iraqi soldiers we worked with was about a sixty/forty split as far as Shia and Sunni sects go. These men lived together, prayed together and fought together. The press will never focus on the positive and I don't believe care how many people die while they play politics.

The many soldiers that were fire bombed and gunned down while were there are never talked about as far as them not ever giving up. The soldiers we worked with were just average fathers that wanted protection and freedom for their families.

I understand that the American military must take orders from civilians, and rightly so, but I wonder why the vast majority of those of us that served in Iraq and actually left "The Wire' on a regular basis believe in what we were doing and see clearly the importance of never abandoning the people of Iraq. I was prepared to die for those people, I'm gald I didn't and sad for those that did, and can't understand this "Moral obligation" of the leftist to spare us from our own willingnous to sacrafice for others.