But, of course, perhaps we should have done nothing at all, and just waited until Saddam in fact would have provided Al Qaeda and or other terrorist groups with such WMDs and they would have used it upon an American city before we should have done anything about it! After all, don't anti-war peaceniks, leftys and Democrats claim that there is no such thing as a "War on Terror" and that "terrorism" is a "law enforcement" issue, not a "military" one; which naturally means that you have to wait until the "crime" is committed, and hundreds of thousands of American lie dead and or dying of "anthrax" or "nerve gas" in one of our major cities, before they would have done anything about Saddam?!?! That's a great "Democratic Game-plan"! Let's face it, aside, of course, from the position taken by anti-war peaceniks who would not go to war even if foreign troops were one day marching down Pennsylvania Avenue, there was no point to engaging in more "shuttle diplomacy," and Saddam got what he rightly deserved: The "shuttle" forcibly driven up his butt!!!

The war in Iraq is being fought at two levels, one militarily, and the other in the court of public opinion. Militarily, our campaign in Iraq has been a resounding success! But the court of public opinion is being manipulated and swayed by the far-left, liberals, and Democrats, and their allies in the "Elite" media, sadly, mostly motivated by sheer, base, political objectives; and they are all hell-bent that we lose it, to serve their political aims and twisted ideological agendas.

The life of each and every one of our servicemen is unique and precious, and everyone from the President, to those at the Pentagon, down to every single American or human being of conscience with half an ounce of decency, is truly sorrowed by each loss and concerned about the mounting death toll; but militarily speaking, the casualties in this conflict, so far, have been negligible, when compared to the losses we've suffered in other wars! And after all, this is "war"!

In Viet Nam, where we "cut-and -run" as many want us to once again do, we lost over 50,000 troops, and as a result of our disgraceful withdrawal, the North Vietnamese, not only took over South Viet Nam and our Vietnamese allies we abandoned, but invaded neighboring Laos and Cambodia, and unleashed the Pol Pot "Killing Fields" of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Today, the mounds of bleaching skulls of the millions of innocent victims who were indiscriminately mass slaughtered sit, a stark, silent, testimony, to the consequential horrors that our cowardly action of "Mc Govern," cut-and-running, withdrawal in Viet Nam set in motion.

Withe the noted exception of the Gulf War, we have lost far more lives in every other conflict in our history, than in the Iraq War; from the Korean War, to WWII, where we lost 500,000 men, to the Civil War, where some experts claim the toll reached an incredible 700,000. And one is forced to ask oneself, if during those crucial times in our nation's history, indeed the world's, particularly during WWII and the Civil War, we would have chosen the same path of withdrawal and defeatism we chose in Viet Nam, and that the "Left" and the "Democrats" wish us so vehemently to take yet again today in Iraq, if there would even be an America today... while most likely we would all be eating "Kraut" now, and hailing "Sieg Heil" in a sea of raised arms and "odorous" armpits.

We would be faring far, far, better in Iraq, if from the very onset of this conflict we would not have been continuously bombarded with the daily barrage of liberal, "peacenik," anti-war, leftists, doom-saying, Democratic, "got-cha," negative, "propaganda" spewing from Washington Democrats and their allies in the "Elite" media, which has only served to embolden, and traitorously give "aid and comfort," to our Islamist enemies, which has persistently tried to ignominiously demoralize and slander our troops with its daily dose of venom, and which ultimate goal is to seek our defeat in Iraq - in order to humiliate President Bush, discredit his policies and his Administration, and usher the "defeatist," "cut-and-run" Democrats back into political power.

This, unbelievably so, is a common goal shared by the "terrorist insurgents" in Iraq, and the "Left" and the "Democrats" in this country, and which both are hell-bent in achieving with these coming November elections, as witnessed by the surge in all the bloodshed and the violence in Iraq put up by the insurgents just two weeks before the "fateful" elections for all those precious "made for TV," "picture moments," relentlessly being drummed about, by the biased, "Democratic allied" liberal, "Elite" media, which has been screaming the Democrat's and the insurgent's "propaganda" mantra at the top of its "pink" lungs from every one of its newspaper headlines, and assiduously showing the horrific, often "staged," disturbing images of all the carnage 24 /7 on our television screens, with the intent of negatively swaying American public opinion and influencing the elections in favor of the Democrats on election day.

As a footnote, ironically, CNN has just been "outed" in the last couple of days, as having "significant" ties with the radical Islamist terrorist and the insurgents in Iraq, allowing them to set the tone of the coverage and to "stage" much of the footage showing all the "devastation" and the "carnage" we see daily on our television screens, to proselytize their hateful "ideology" during coverage, and to spew all their "anti-American" (feelings most of those at CNN as well as the terrorists both share) "propaganda," in exchange for " exclusive access" - much as that "unofficial" mouthpiece of AlQaeda, Al Jazeera, habitually does! Some conservative lawmakers in Washington are so enraged by this treasonous behavior on the part of CNN, that they have requested the Pentagon to rescind all CNN reporters, and bar them from being embedded with U.S. troops.

But what is even more ironic, is that given the "overt" concern shown recently by "hand-wringing," liberal, leftist, Democrats, over the "Geneva Convention rights" of captured Jihadist murderous thugs in street clothes, and over the use of "coercive interrogation" methods on them, in Washington- remember, to these concerned "bleeding heart" Democrats, the detainees should only receive "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" treatment during their internment as pertains to their food, accommodations, and creature comforts: Food that is "Halal," served "not too cold, not too hot, but just right", rooms that are "not too cold, not too hot, but just right", and beds that are "not too hard, not too soft, but just right", all of which, of course, Nancy Pelosi "Goldilocks" and the Democrats heartily approve - yet these same "bleeding heart" liberals, leftists, and Democrats, apparently turn a blind eye, and give a rat's ass about the countless victims which Saddam, heinously, systematically, raped, tortured, and massacred, whose countless bodies, numbering in the hundreds of thousands - many of which were women and children - keep turning up in mass graves all over throughout Iraq, and from which horrors our troops delivered the Iraqi people.

But of course, according to these same liberals, leftists, and Democrats we had no business "liberating" the Iraqi people in the first place.

Apparently these gray-haired, balding, leftist, Democrat "Baby Boomers," former "Hippies" now in "Armani suits" and "silk ties" and their liberal, amoral, "secular progressive" "brood," which are the "pampered" result of the Post-war - the greatest period of plenty and prosperity for the common man in the history of America - are irritated! In their self-centered, "Rebel without a cause," "Viet Cong Flag wielding," pot smoking, "free love," isolationism, they feel that by our going into Iraq we "disturbed" the "Status Quo" in the region, and that now we have this "pesky" war to "divert" their attention from more important "pursuits" such as watching who won on "American Idol," or participating in their politically correct "Gay Pride Parades"! One has just to see the patronizing contempt with which the likes of Bill Mahrer, who is arguably the epitome of the aforementioned, has all along referred to, not only to the people in Iraq, but to those every day Americans dwelling in between those two thin "Blue" fringes on either side of the continent, to realize the amount of "hubris" and "conceit" that makes up their "Latte drinking," "Sushi eating," twisted, leftists, Democratic, "Elitist" ideology... and then the cynics wish to pass themselves off as the "Party of the People". Yeah, right!

In sooth, Leviticus, nothing better describes you and your sick, "affectated," peacenik, leftists, Democratic ilk, than the words once uttered by Gertrude Stein about a previous generation! That generation also embraced the proven failed policies and ideology of "pacifism" and "appeasement," to the point of lowering their heads like eunuchs, and accepting the yoke of Nazism and German occupation throughout Europe in 1938, much as the "defeatist," "cut-and-run," Democrats of today wish us to do in the face of the impending threat of Islamofacism, and in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Stein's hauntingly descriptive remark about that generation, eerily fits today leftist, liberal, secular progressive, defeatist, "cut-and-run," "Viet Cong flag wielding," "Baby Boom" Democrats perfectly: "You are all a lost generation!"

Let us only hope that America, as we know it, will be able endure long enough, until this accursed "lost generation" are all finally in their graves.