Some Are Elated About War’s End

 by Anthony J. Oleck

Daily Local News

August 27, 2010

Karen Porter writes that the Iraq War is over and somehow she does not feel elated. Well let me offer a possible explanation … we won the war, it was a victory for America and a victory for the Iraqi people. A victory for the women who now have opportunities they have never had …. a victory especially for the young women who were the playthings of Saddam Hussein’s maniac sons.

The far left may not feel elated with victory because they all said victory in Iraq was all but impossible. Harry Reid said the war was lost. Vice President Biden said on “Hardball” that no one seriously believes that Sunni, Shia and Kurds would sit down at a table together … Biden wanted to divide the country into three parts. But George Bush showed the resolve and the courage to support the troops and bring this war to a victorious end … proving all the Democrat naysayers and the elite media types wrong. A fact which prompted Biden to claim that a Democratic Iraq may very well be the most significant accomplishment of the Obama administration … an unbelievable comment from the king of unbelievable comments.

And Ms. Porter keeps throwing out the “lie” thing as if it were true … there were no lies. We all know that every intelligence agency in the world was saying that Iraq had WMDs. It’s not a lie when you act on bad intelligence … Bush lied to no one and John Kerry and Hillary Clinton all supported giving Bush the authority to go to war … they too made statements about the threat posed by Iraq’s WMDs, WMDs if you remember were used on their own people.

And for Bush to have ignored the intelligence reports from around the globe in a post-9/11 world would have been a gross dereliction of duty.

So yes, I understand why Ms. Porter and her group may not feel elated at the victory in Iraq … they were all wrong, and it’s hard to feel elated when you have been proven wrong.

But you have to look no further than the other side of the corner in West Chester every Saturday to see a group of patriots who supported the troops every inch of the way. Those proud Americans are elated with the victory in Iraq, both for America, for our brave troops and for our new Democratic allies in the Mideast … compliments of a steadfast commander in chief who never gave up.