?It?s very important for the people of the world really to know that we are winning, we are making progress in Iraq, we are defeating terrorists,? Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said. ?Unfortunately, the media have not been covering these significant gains in Iraq.?
Maybe that?s because reporters have been too busy lately, engaging in a paper chase and trying to determine where George W. Bush was in 1972.
By the way, Allawi isn?t the only world leader who supports Bush. ?It was a very good speech. It was all true,? President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan announced. He went on to thank the United States and our allies for helping to rebuild his country after decades of war.
But Kerry?s view differs from that of the leaders on the front lines. ?I believe the invasion of Iraq has made us less secure and weaker in the war against terrorism,? Kerry told the audience at NYU. And we?ve heard that one a lot. Back in July, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., announced that, because of the war in Iraq, ?our nation is more vulnerable today than ever before.? This may be true -- but the evidence so far is against it.
It?s now been three full years since 9/11. In those three years, we?ve suffered zero attacks on our homeland. Yes, our military is fighting terrorists in Afghanistan and in Iraq. And it may be called on to fight terrorists elsewhere, too.
But let?s remember how we all felt on that September morning just three years ago: ?We?ve got to get those people,? we thought. And today, we are getting them. President Bush, Ayad Allawi, Hamid Karzai, Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi and others realize that.
When all is said and done, there?s a war on. One candidate?s convinced we can and will win in Iraq -- indeed, that we must. He wants to stay the course. The other says, ?It is not a question of staying the course, but of changing the course.?
At last, on the most important issue of the day, Americans have a clear choice. Let?s vote.