"Winning the Peace"

Today's Washington Times has a story reporting that the "insurgents" in Iraq are acting violently towards US troops so that President Bush loses this election.

• "If the U.S. Army suffered numerous humiliating losses, [Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John] Kerry would emerge as the superman of the American people," said Mohammad Amin Bashar, a leader of the Muslim Scholars Association, a hard-line clerical group that vocally supports the resistance.

So, let's see now. President Bush is supposedly working to end the torture and murder of Iraqi people by a ruthless dictator. He wants Iraqis to have free and fair elections so they may choose their country's leadership. He wants to rebuild the infrastructure of the country, build schools, enable individuals to operate businesses, and revitalize the nation's economy.

And we as American citizens are supposed to believe that peace can be 'won' with animals like Mohammad Bashar? Not a chance, people like him oppose all that is good and must be wiped off the face of the Earth. I suspect his opposition has nothing to do with the aforementioned points. I think ALL of the resistance is directly tied to our support for Israel and President Bush's unwillingness to deal with Yasser Arafat. Here's a great column by Charles Krauthammer talking about how Kerry may abandon Israel to satisfy the Europeans in exchange for more help in Iraq and Afghanistan.