Drawing the line!

From the infamous attack, to the logical conclusions.

"We're determined to stand together; and, we're determined to take action." These were the words of British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, after the attack against our country on September 11TH, 2001. These words were echoed around the world in a mighty voice and Americans were truly united around a common goal.

We supported our president in mass when he declared; "Were not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states." Americans stood a little taller and bolstered our chests a little when we heard him say; "He counted on America to be passive; He counted wrong." The sentiments of the phrases "United We Stand" and "God Bless America" were heartfelt and sincere ones, not sentimental treachery.

"We will not tire, we will not falter and we will not fail." The words or our Commander! "Make no mistake about it; The US Military will defend freedom at any cost." We did not doubt his conviction when he said; "Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies; justice will be done." And we did, we took justice to our enemies when we destroyed the Taliban, killed & captured Al-Qaeda 's leaders and demolished the infrastructure of a rouge state in Afghanistan. Actually, in the process; we left a great gift with the Afghan people; we left freedom and liberty behind. Our mighty force of anger became one of compassion when, our mission turned from killing our enemies to helping the people they oppressed become a free state.

The lesson to our enemies; Old Glory still waves and lady liberty still has a back-bone. "The entire world has seen for it's self the state of our union and it is strong!" Said President George Walker Bush. He had the foresight to know that America, despite it's internal and external enemies' attacks against it, would hold stead-fast in it's conviction to lead the world on a new mission. One of justice, fueled by anger and compassion; which did not waiver in the face of resistance.

Logically, the president, with the aid and support of our congress made the decision that we will never allow ourselves to become an easy target again by ignoring our enemies. They decided, together, that we would hunt down and destroy those who want to kill Americans whenever and wherever they can, those who have made a career of attempting to devour freedom by instilling fear and hate... United, we determined that we will not be stopped in our struggle to be free. We determined that the best way to do this would be to spread freedom to a part of the world that has never known it, and the taste of freedom given to them would create a hunger that would be carnivorous against their oppressors and prevent other radical and maliciously controlled governments from forming.

When we made the decision to disrupt and destroy our enemies, wherever they hide, in any state that supported them; that's when we had to focus on a known enemy who was attempting to compile a military and arsenal of weapons to use against their neighbors and against the United States. Relentless in our efforts to be strong yet allegiant, we went back to the UN, obtained a new resolution with the authority to use force. Although, we did not need a new resolution because of the violations of the cease-fire agreement, we were attempting arouse the cooperation of our "allies" who overwhelmingly supported the move to war with Iraq. However, the proven corrupt governments of France, Russia and Germany threatened to veto any UN resolution that would effectively declare war on the country because of their financial interests in the "Oil for Food" program.

This was the break that the Liberal hide-outs in the US had been waiting for, a chance to break with their charade of patriotism and agreement. Because we had some corrupt opposition, they now thought it safe to perpetrate their great fraud on the citizens without being seen as unpatriotic or treasonous. These, the very people who supported a nuclear freeze while President Reagan was confronting Communism and evil in his time. We won the cold war; Despite the sabotage of the left and defeated the Evil Soviet Empire. Again, they were on the wrong side of history.

The Liberal talking points were instantly spread like wild-fire and the propaganda spread throughout the willingness of the press long controlled by the democratic party. It became a media battle of the "main-stream media" vs. "The Alternative Media". Thanks to talk radio, Fox News and the advent of political blogging, the Conservative voices were able to fight back and a fury erupted in the democratic party when Ann Coulter topped Hillary Clinton in the New York Times' Best Sellers List. When Sean Hannity emerged on that same list and succeeded in talk radio where Liberals have consistently failed to bring any following. Attacks leveled against people like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Neal Bortz and others though our congress and judicial process systematically failed. And we had the new-found support of the Internet which seemed to have kindled and spread around Matt Drudge (The Drudge Report) like talk radio did with Limbaugh.

Through these sources, the Conservatives were able to fight against the Liberal waged war of mis-information and distortion. The deceptive brainchild's of the Democratic Party like "Blood for Oil" & "Cheney's Halliburton" were targeted and exposed for the frauds that they were. Two major networks and several papers were exposed for their deceptive reporting and the major networks suffered drastic defeat by the Fox News Network in their ratings. While the democrats put forward anything that seemed to be politically expedient at the moment, the conservative movement held it's ground and maintained it's consistency in winning the minds of the American People.

Again, despite the left's attack against our country, we defeated the Iraqi Military, killed the terrorist Hussein brothers in a violent fire-fight and captured the Evil Dictator, Saddam. We toppled the insurgency of the radicalists in 4 days re-taking the city of Fallujah and continue to hunt down and kill the resistance forces who are in hiding. In the words of our leader, "Bring em' on!" we have taken the fight to our enemies so we haven't had to fight them in our cities any longer. The Majority of the resistance fighters in Iraq are foreign terrorists sent to attempt to disrupt the spread of liberty and hope throughout the region.

We fought a delicate war even though we maintained all of the power of total annihilation and control, we shed American blood on the ground of these countries to save the lives of their citizens as well as protect a way of life, and in doing so, we stopped mass genocide, closed the torture and rape chambers and ceased the beheading and impalement campaigns of the fallen regime. Still, the left supports the insurgencies that arise and demand that we be sensitive to the feelings of those who coined the terms "Imperialist puppets", "American Infidels", "Black-Hearted Pillagers" and "Religious zealots".

The Irony of it (the left loves this word)... we take months to fight a ground war to save the lives of some of our very enemies; that is the irony of this war! If our enemies had a fraction of our power, they would have annihilated all of us by now, we can't allow them to pursue this type of weaponry (WMD's). We finished the job that we had to do in order to repair the damage done by submission, ignorance and pacifism and to show the world, America will draw their line in the sand.

Of course, Conservatives won the war, In Afghanistan, Iraq and in America. They won the votes of the American People. Although, by an uncomfortable margin... After all of this, there are still the herds of mind-numb sheep lead by the "old media" and their puppet masters who follow the indoctrination of Liberal Government from their media and educators. Again, this is ironic because the vast majority of Americans do not live their lives as they will elect a politician to do it for them. People do not broadly believe in re-distribution of wealth and creating a welfare state. People do not believe in limiting their liberties, paying higher taxes and stifling the employers of the nation. They do not broadly believe in weakening our intelligence and defense and compounding government growth. But, they will elect someone who will do that for them, simply because Dan Rather and Professor Bliss say that these people are the visionaries of our time.

Our nation has been attacked from outside and from within, the enemies have attacked us on our turf and the attacks on our country from the extremist liberals in our country are as real as were the trade center attacks of 9/11. We are a peaceful nation who believes in a respect of opinions of mankind, we believe in our creator, we believe that we have certain unalienable rights, but we will not be defeated by radical Islamic's or liberals.

Why is it out of bounds to question the patriotism of liberals today? Today's democratic party has been infiltrated by the socialist-loving left who supported our enemies all along, and continue to do so, who instinctively hate America. In much the same manner in which Afghanistan was controlled by Al-Qaeda, pulling the strings of the Taliban, so are the strings of the democratic party pulled by the radicalist "Al-Franken's" of this country!

I don't believe that it is inappropriate to question the patriotism of the enemies of our country, especially those within. You know who they are, they run from the title "liberal" because they "don't want to be labeled". What happened to the real democrats, those like Joe Liberman and Zell Miller who stood proudly when they were called liberals. These are the true patriots who understand that the democratic party has left them, not the other way around.

I noticed, this fear of the label has gone far beyond politicians now, no one wants to be identified as a liberal anymore. Just the other night I was going into my office and I noticed by boss' wife coming in and she parked in front of the building, I took note of a "Kerry-Edwards" bumper sticker on the back of her Lexus SUV (yeah, you read that right!) and I decided to have a little fun with it. So when I went in, I commented to my boss, in front of several employees; "Hey, Man... I always thought you were a good man, but I just saw the Kerry sticker on your bumper." To which he instantly replied, "Oh, that's my wife's car!" she heard the conversation and turned very red, then replied; "It's yours too!". You see this is common with liberals, they want to elect people to mis-use your money and government, but never want to be identified for it.

On the other hand republicans stand with a certain pride and dignity when you call them "conservative", because they know who they are and what it means. There is a core belief system associated with that title that is missing with the title of liberal now. The undeniable truth is, in order to defeat evil in our time, as many generations before us had to do; we must defeat terrorism, socialism and liberalism as well as all of the institutions and states that support them.

The bottom line here is that just being a liberal does not make someone a bad person, for instance, you can work with them, play football with them, go to school with them, their kids can work with yours in the school play and you can even invite them over for a barbecue. You just don’t want them in charge of your government at times like these.

Steve Whitmore s.whitmore@kentuckylaketimes.com

Staff Political Commentator