In Defense of the President

The democrats and the media (redundancy defined!) constantly tell us that Bush's popularity is at historic lows, and then launch into yet another attack on him, while gutless so-called republicans sit by silently and allow these attacks to go unchallenged. Democrats blame Bush for 'taking his eyes off the ball' by invading Iraq instead of focusing on Afghanistan, hoping that we all forget that they were dead set against attacking the Taliban at that time. Now, since that war proved popular, they rewrite history to claim they supported it all along, that they only opposed the war in Iraq (despite voting to authorize it). So, the simple question is this: Is the war in Iraq, which toppled a cruel and ruthless dictator, a man who murdered hundreds of thousands of his own citizens, who killed hundreds of thousands more in wars against his neighbors, a man who supported terror groups worldwide, is that war an unjust war? Does fighting to bring democracy and freedom to 25 million people tarnish the image of the United States? When Bill Clinton sat by and watched over a million people get slaughtered in Rwanda, did our indifference boost our image worldwide? The United States should stand for freedom. We should oppose tyranny. We were right to stop ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo, we should have stopped it in Rwanda, and we were right to depose a brutal dictator like Sadaam. We should use our power diplomatically, economically, and militarily, to topple other thugs like Mugabe, Castro, Chavez, Ammadinijhad, Assad, and others. People will ask 'are we the world's policeman?' My answer is, would you rather live in a world without one?