Demonizing George Bush

Right now the national debate has been morphed into a huge who-groped-whom drama from California. Good fun, I suppose, but as soon as the California voters have rewarded Gray Davis for his sterling efforts to destroy the fifth largest economy in the world, the attention will once again turn to the Democratic war against America's war against terrorism.

A certain sign of the failure of the American education system is the general public's failure (inability is more like it) to grasp the most basic truths surrounding our military efforts in Iraq. It would, of course, help if the mainstream media could be just a little less anxious to demonize George Bush, but the truth is out there for anyone with the ability to logically assimilate a few facts.

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We are being urged to accept that Bush is a complete failure, and that his war in Iraq has been nothing less than a crime against nature. This is all based, of course, on the fact that no actual weapons of mass destruction have actually been located in Iraq.

Do the facts matter here? I think that they do, and if a little spoon feeding is necessary, spoon feeding it shall be.

OK, we knew that Saddam had the weapons. We also knew that he had used those weapons, as did the families of the thousands of people who ended their lives locked into grotesque poses of death in the streets of Iraq coated in Saddam's chemical residues.

Further, Saddam had taken steps to bring an end to the weapons inspections in 1998. Those inspections were discontinued until four years later, and then resumed to suffer the constant harassment of Saddam and his henchmen. For a little icing on the weapons cake, we have Saddam's refusal to abide by any of the 17 resolutions passed by the U.N. Security Council from 1991 onward.

So, America invades. Documents are found, equipment is found, scientists who worked on the weapons are found, but the weapons themselves aren't. This, according to the Democrats and their sycophants in the media, is all the evidence we need to condemn Bush's war to oust Saddam.

Is that so?

We're going to switch here from weapons of mass destruction to counterfeit $100 bills.

Let's imagine that we have a counterfeiter on the loose. He's spreading $100 bills like a Democrat. He's not all that careful, this counterfeiter. He keeps appearing on closed-circuit cameras and leaving his fingerprints pretty much everywhere he goes. The police spend a year building up their case. They collect the pictures and testimony from victims. Officials know that this counterfeiter has a massive printing capability that could, if not stopped, mean that he might well pass enough $100 bills to seriously affect our economy, not to mention the cost to merchants and law enforcement.

You have the picture, right? This man has been spreading counterfeit $100 bills. No doubt about it. So, it's time to put him out of business before he prints and spreads some more. The Secret Service agents swing into action and raid the counterfeiter's home. There they find a high-tech printing press. They also find the special types of paper used for U.S. currency, and the inks as well. To top things off, they actually find the engraved plates for the $100 bills. They find all of the basic ingredients for the making of the counterfeit bills. But they don't locate one single counterfeit bill. Not one. They search for a month, tearing out walls and ripping up carpet … but no bills.

So, what to do? Do you let him go? Do you apologize for the raid? You know he had those bills. You know that because he actually passed them! He has the press, the paper, the ink and the plates … but no bills. Was your whole effort a miserable failure?

Of course, it wasn't a failure. The counterfeiter is out of business. He won't be printing any bogus bills any time soon. To turn him loose simply because he didn't have any actual bills on him, or you couldn't find any bills he had hidden away would be pure idiocy.

OK, I'll put away the spoon. If this little allegory hasn't turned on a light somewhere you need to reset your circuit breakers.