The most efficient, most horrific terrorist act in world history occurred on Sept. 11, 2001. A handful of fanatics murdered over 3,000 people, disrupted an industrial giant's economy and struck fear into the hearts and minds of 300 million people. We can only imagine how emboldened this attack must have made the tens of thousands of other would-be terrorists who had been indoctrinated from an early age, over a period of decades in the Middle East to hate America with a monomaniacal fervor. How eager were these tens of thousands to duplicate that first attack's success! Yet, over 2,600 days have elapsed without their doing so. Why?
Thank President George Bush for his foresight. He understood that if you find vermin in your home, luring them into a central location outside the house is the safest way to exterminate them. Let the fanatics sacrifice themselves for Allah and go to be with their 72 virgins in Iraq, not in America. If we can hang an evil dictator and his henchmen in the mix, all the better. Brilliant!
Leftists, however, complain, "We haven't yet killed Osama bin Laden." So what? We've killed thousands upon thousands of those ready to take his place. "And we didn't find weapons of mass destruction." Again, so what? What we've done is kept the vermin off our soil and our people safe. "But people in other countries hate us." Are you kidding? You care? Guess which country they come to for help when they are attacked.
The war in Iraq has been won. It was won a long time ago. "Mission accomplished." The last few years our troops have been there to impose martial law until the Iraqis themselves can take over.
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Barack Obama says he'll pull us out of Iraq. And what will happen then? Iranian troops will pour across the Iraqi border, undoing what we've accomplished and forcing us to return to a much more difficult situation.
Of course, someone will point this out to him. We won't be leaving there any time soon.
Now that we're undergoing a financial crisis, which will be exacerbated by the increases in income and capital gains taxes and by the socialist programs Obama wants, and given the success we can maintain in Iraq only by staying there, all the reasons leftists had for voting Obama have evaporated.
Jim Metheny