Brett's Buzz Words

Brett wrote another wonderful letter to the editor in this week's Chinook Observer. It's a hit in our small community...even the local owner of the mini-mart cut it out and posted it in his store window. Way to go Brett!!



Wednesday, April 11, 2007

With the passage of the Iraq Supplemental Spending Bill in both the House and Senate, I believe the voters of this county (and the entire U.S.) would be well served to reconsider their support of any Democrat candidates in 2008.

This shameful bill is nothing less than an admission of surrender to al Qaeda, even providing our enemy with a schedule of our troops retreat. After the thousands of Americans that have been killed in the war against Islamic terrorists, after thousands more innocents across the globe have been slaughtered, it is hard to comprehend why the American military should retreat from the one place on Earth where most of the terrorists actually are. Withdrawing from Iraq does not make the war in Afghanistan, or anywhere else, any easier.

We will still be fighting al Qaeda all over the world, we will still be working to protect our homeland from attack. The only thing that will have changed is that we will have given our enemy a huge victory, surrendering to them a sanctuary with great oil wealth with which to fund their future attacks. It is a fool's delusion that wars can be won by declining to fight back, and doubly foolish to think we are so safe and secure that we can "opt out" of the fighting at no cost.

To assume that Iraq is lost and cannot withstand the terrorists with the assistance of 150,000 American troops but suddenly can do so after we leave is just silly wishful thinking. As Iran has made perfectly clear with the abduction of the 15 British sailors, Islamic extremists will continue to commit acts of war against the U.S. and Europe with impunity, until the West (and Democrats in Congress) are forced to recognize we are in a war for our very existence.

President Bush was correct when he stated that the War on Terror was a different type of war, one that would not end with a signed surrender on the deck of an aircraft carrier. The Democrats want to sign the U.S.'s surrender in the halls of Congress, it is time to elect new representatives committed to America's victory, not defeat.

Brett Malin
Seaview