President Bush

[Mr 5 0]

I agree with Rick that the invasion of Iraq was necessary and fully justified. The fact that Islamic terrorists are pouring into Iraq from other Arab nations simply proves that they are in fear of a democratic Iraq and are fighting for their lives, as it were, both figuaratively and literally. They will be defeated and Iraq will eventually be some sort of democracy (they are all different; France is a democarcy, as is Japan, Germany and so on). In any case, Saddam was a long-standing threat to the region (he started two wars, supported Palestinian terrorists and harbored al-Queda terrorists). Saddam Hussein had great potential to be a threat to the world via his WMD capabilities. I also think that he had WMD's but hid or removed many of them. Every major nation's intelligence forces were flat-out positive he had the weapons and it's almost impossible to fool all of the people all of the time, as President Abraham Lincoln once said.

I also continue to be a strong supporter of President Bush. As he said himself in his recent press conference: "I mean what I say". I don't agree with his immigration and Prescription Drug proposals as well as the bloated federal budget but overall, his tax cuts (which the Democrats still howl about) have helped a shaken economy recover and his leadership in the very real War on Terror visited upon us by the horrific events of 9/11/01 hasve been outstanding, against a media tide of criticism generated by the Democrats. Bush staked his re-election on the invasion of Iraq and I truly believe he did it in Americas interest, not his re-election. I predict President Bush will win re-election (Kerry is a joke) and by the end of his second term, Iraq will be stabilized and terrorism, while never gone for good, will have been effectively diminished, thanks to President Bush and the American military.