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The Bush Plan Is…We Win!

By Judson Cox

October 13, 2004

John Kerry accuses the Bush administration of not having a plan in Iraq. He says Iraq is, "The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time." Sen. Kerry has a plan for fixing nearly every ill of American society; seldom does he tell us exactly what these plans are, but he assures us that he has plans and the President does not. President Bush's plan is simple. The plan is, we win.

We invaded Iraq for a reason. Iraq is an important facet of the fight against Islamic terrorism. Even as we were toppling the Taliban regime in response to the 9/11 attack that left over three thousand innocent Americans dead, President Bush was already making clear the Bush Doctrine. The Bush Doctrine states that we will kill terrorists in their countries before they kill us in ours. We view state sponsors of terror as guilty as the terrorists themselves. Our war, then, was not only against bin Laden and al Qaeda, but against all nations who harbor, fund, arm or support terrorism in any way. President Bush named the three major state sponsors of terror, and labeled them the Axis of Evil. Those states did not even include the nation that harbored bin Laden; the Taliban regime was already upon the ash heap of history, and bin Laden was cowering in a cave as his al Qaeda network was being systematically destroyed.

President Bush named the three nations that were the greatest threats to America. He named Iran, the godfather of Islamic terror and a nation pursuing nuclear weapons. He named North Korea, a nation developing a nuclear weapons program and willing to sell their weapons to the highest bidder. He named Iraq, a nation with a brutal dictator who had a proven history of not only sponsoring terror, but also of warring against America. Out of all three nations, only one (Iraq) was already at war with us. Is it any wonder that we started with Iraq?

After the Gulf War, Saddam stayed in power, and continued to threaten our allies with chemical and biological weapons. He proudly boasted of a nuclear weapons program. He even used chemical weapons against the Kurds in his own country. As his armies and weapons dwindled under US pressure and United Nations sanctions and inspections, he turned increasingly toward terrorism. Hussein funded and harbored Islamic terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, and he paid the families of Palestinian suicide bombers $25,000 apiece to kill Jews. Hussein paid assassins to target an American President. He kicked out the United Nations weapons inspectors. He ordered attacks against our soldiers who policed the no fly zone - a clear act of war. He gave safe harbor to al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan. He boasted to the world that if our troops invaded Iraq, they would face chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.

We were at war with Iraq even before the current invasion was even ordered. We invaded Iraq to end a war, overturn a brutal dictator and remove a menace. We could have turned a blind eye to Saddam's atrocities, ignored his acts of aggression toward our troops, overlooked his sponsorship of terrorism and assumed that he was lying about the weapons he professed to have. After 9/11 though, this was not an option.

We overturned Saddam's regime. We put an end to his sponsorship of terrorism, his atrocities and his threats. We are killing terrorists in Iraq so that we will not be killed by them on our own soil. We are fighting this war because we have to, and we will continue fighting this war until it is finished. We will continue killing the terrorists until they no longer have the will to kill us. We will fight this war until we win. We will not stop with Afghanistan or Iraq. We will continue to follow the Bush doctrine. We will fight this war in any nation necessary until the war is over. We may assume that the next nation we go to war with will be Iran, but we do not know. The next nation may be Syria or Libya, even North Korea - it will be whatever nation is the greatest threat to America. We will replace its government with one opposed to terror, as we did in Afghanistan and Iraq. That is the plan.