couple of choices

The president spoke last night to the nation and as I sat and took in his words I tried to imagine how this all would come to pass. There is no way of knowing the outcome of this war in Iraq. There are two possibilities that stand before us. We can leave that country in the hands of a people whose future stands to prosper within and able to merge ideas and commerce with countries across the globe. On the other hand we can leave that country in the hands of a people whose future stands to collapse from the weight of the terrorists and the ravages of outside interventionist come to claim the spoils from a country left to fend for itself.

The president reminded the members of congress that congress did not vote for failure in this operation in Iraq. This my friends is the other option that lays ahead if we do not take advantage of this proposal laid out by the president in his speech last night. In life there are no guarantees only opportunities from which choices are made. The results from those choices have to be dealt with and in so doing produces more choices. None of the decisions the president has made have been made without soul-searching effort on his part. This I firmly believe in my heart. Those that criticize him for his lack of care and concern are wrong.

Our troops will move into the Baghdad area with the Iraqi troops and will make progress in clearing the enemies from the city. There will be many deaths in the process and I believe the media will once again hound the troops and look for any slip that can cause the president or the troops embarrassment. They will constantly look for any reason to discourage the public and probably will find many. Regardless I look for this new assault to produce good results. The time for this will be long and will take patience.

I want to say one more thing about the Democrat view of the president doing nothing more than adding troops. There are other activities taking place in Iraq while this is going on there are attempts to bring together the opposing forces. There is some communicating with the neighboring states and many more things taking place along with the increase in troops.

Our enemies take great pleasure in the actions of those that are going against the presidents plan at this time. They see this as division which they have long preached. The Americans are weak and will not stay the course. They will run when they see death. Their people are weak and will recall their troops. This has been preached by Bin Ladin and others from day one. Will he be right? When this president leaves office this war will continue and the next president will have to continue. Look also for trouble with Iran within the next year,serious involvement. The reason I think this is because the president said Iran would not have nuclear weapons as long as he was president.