The American Spectator

Which is why the media and Democrats are winning. Because they have the stage and Bush lets them have it.

This war on terror is as much a propaganda war as it is anything else. Yet no one seems to care about the propaganda foisted on the American people. I hear America broadcasts into Iraq so why can’t we get some of that propaganda here in America?

America will be done with Iraq and the war on terror if the media liberals and power-hungry Democrats get their way. But the American public, the great unwashed living their quiet legal lives, have polled time and time again to support the war on terror.

This administration is going to lose this war because they were too timid to give some straight and serious talk. If the American public gives up, President Bush, the war on terror and democracy in Iraq will be totally lost.

p>And I won’t blame the Democrats and I won’t blame the media. This American will blame the cowardly administration that let political correctness rule and didn’t fight back with their most powerful weapon: the truth. br> — Pat Fish br> Georgetown, Delaware /p>

Please consider the Third Jihad when you comment on what President Bush says tonight at the Army War College. This article was written a month ago, and can be found here. Here is an extract:

The so-called “War On Terror” did not start on 9-11. That was when many realized that the United States was in protracted asymmetrical warfare with Islamic militants. This conflict started in the 1970s and will last decades, and longer if the Islamic militants get overt state sponsorship. As in all warfare this is fundamentally a battle of wills. Two questions must be answered:

p>• What is a realistic estimate of the current situation? br> • What is the best strategy to achieve victory at the lowest possible cost? br> — Dr. Sam Holliday