A few thoughts over a cup of coffee this morning, read if you wish............... forwarding to your liberal friends is a must. Counter arguments are always welcome.

Just a few quotes from the Fresno Bee in recent days:

"The President made a colossal error in judgment by invading Iraq", Senator John Kerry, as quoted in the debate Thursday night.

Iraqi leaders seem to disagree. Other than the jailed Sadaam Hussein, have you seen any of THEM say this? Do any of the new Iraqi leaders call it a colossal mistake? No. Who do we believe? The Presidential candidate whose only hope of success i s for our failure in Iraq? Or the founding fathers of a new government in Iraq?

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, quoted in the Bee the same day: "The Iraqi people have suffered enough at the hands of these people (terrorists). We want a new Iraq, a different Iraq."

Referring to the cowardly attack on Iraqi schoolchildren in Baghdad on Thursday: "This attack was carried out by evil people who do not want the Iraqis to celebrate and don't want (reconstruction) projects in Iraq." - Iraqi National Guardsman Lt. Ahmad Saad.

"They are killing citizens and spreading horror. They have no aims except killing as many Iraqis as they can." - Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister General Hussein Kamal.

"Heroic Operations" - quote to describe the murder of 35 innocent Iraqi children with a car bomb as seen on militant Islamic website.

The left in this country blames terrorism in Iraq on the United States, as if it didn't exist before the invasion of Iraq, the liberation of its citizens and the jailing of the modern day Adolph Hitler, Sadaam Hussein. Of course it existed. It was a way of life. Liberals everywhere claim to support civil rights, women's rights, children's rights, but under Hussein there were none. Kurds were gassed and killed. Rape, murder and torture were the rule of the day in Iraq prior to the invasion and this would have continued indefinitely had we not intervened. Everyone, including Senator Kerry, believed Iraq had WMD and Hussein was a threat to be removed. For a great list of these quotes, click here: http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/mostert/040816.

The left fantasizes that there will be war without casualties, a painless effort. As a movement, they seem to have little or  no concept that the blood of Americans has secured the freedom of the WORLD, including the gutless triad of old European countries, France, Germany and Spain, all of which would be living under a swastika had FDR not decided to engage Adolph Hitler (Hardly an "imminent"  threat back then, according to the left, which opposed the war in the 1930's and 40's). The fact is we lost over 1,000 valuable lives in the first FIVE MINUTES of the Normandy invasion.

The war on terror as led by this President is the most successful military operation in the history of modern warfare, by ANY measurement. The left squeals about  "loss of freedoms at home" but the war we are fighting now, among other things, will provide  freedom to people that have never had it and have a strong desire to govern themselves as we do. These free people are not and will not put up with terrorism and are fighting  back, with our assistance. In the meantime, God willing, we will not be attacked again on our own soil.

The President of the United States if the only man in this race that understands the true nature of the evil enemy we are now facing.  He is the only candidate that understands that you fight terror over there so you don't have to fight it over here.  He is the only candidate that understands that freedom and stability in this world is paid for with human blood. He is the only candidate in this race that will stay the course in the face of criticism from leftists, the East Coast media and sneering members of the United Nations.  He is the only candidate that has not shifted his position on the war on terror. He is the only candidate that has not insulted Britain, Australia, Japan and the new Iraqi government leaders.

Click here for the list of insults: http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1226449/posts.