Rewriting History

by Charles Krauthammer - May 4th, 2007 - Washington Post

The most powerful case for the war was made at the 2004 Republican convention by John McCain in a speech that was resolutely "realist." On the Democratic side, every presidential candidate running today who was in the Senate when the motion to authorize the use of force came up -- Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd-- voted yes.

Outside of government, the case for war was made not just by the neoconservative Weekly Standard but -- to select almost randomly -- the traditionally conservative National Review, the liberal New Republic and the center-right Economist. Of course, most neoconservatives supported the war, the case for which was also being made by journalists and scholars from every point on the political spectrum -- from the leftist Christopher Hitchens to the liberal Tom Friedman to the centrist Fareed Zakaria to the center-right Michael Kelly to the Tory Andrew Sullivan. And the most influential tome on behalf of war was written not by any conservative, let alone neoconservative, but by Kenneth Pollack, Clinton's top Near East official on the National Security Council. The title: "The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq."

That history is the reason that many of us who believe this war is necessary if our children are to live in freedom get so angry at the "let's quit the war brigade". Their arguments are simply lies.

Libya is the proof that this is still a race to stop the Islamofascists from getting nuclear arms before the middle east is turned into a less totalitarian dominated set of countries. If we had not invaded Iraq, Libya would not have surrendered their program. In that case Libya, Iraq, Iran and even Syria would have joined Pakistan as nuclear muslim states already. If we fail to stop this nuclear threat, our children are going to reap the nuclear holocaust that we avoided during the cold war.

What do you think is going to happen here inside America when the first nuclear bombs start to go off? Do the appeasers really think that the retaliation blood bath will not start with them?