Bush Fighting Back

Finally, after a long summer of press and opposition drubbings, President Bush is going on offense to defend his record on Iraq and terror. Finally, an effective and sustained response to the outrageous yammerings of the Defeatocrats.

So, a recap of recent boos and kudos is in order:

Kudos - to the President in his address and press conference, for a needed and compelling recap of the terrorist threat we still face and of his job requirement to protect the country as his first priority.

Boos - to the New York Times for attempting to dupe the country with a scandal story the day after the most significant news story of the year - the Iraqi elections. The non-story about the President authorizing domestic wire taps to track terrorist with foreign connections was held for a year and then dumped with a timing designed both to minimize the success story of the elections and to take down the Patriot act. As the President said today:

My personal opinion is it was a shameful act for someone to disclose this very important program in a time of war. The fact that we're discussing this program is helping the enemy.

Boo - to the leaker within the NSA or the Congress who leaked this to the New York Times. Note to Democrats: this is a real secret, worthy of keeping. Not like this made up Valerie Plame outing that you've had your knickers in a twist over for the last two years.

Boos - to the Democrat leadership (Pelosi and Reid) who were briefed on the wiretaps, but ran for cover yesterday when the news story broke. Chickens.

Kudos - to the President for the courage to say that he ordered the wiretaps many times and would do so again as often as needed. This story says that we have a Commander in Chief who is serious about fighting the War on Terror with everything in his arsenal.

Boos - to the rest of the media for dropping the incredible story of the succesful Iraqi elections to chase like lemmings the wiretap story. One day. That's all the coverage that the MSM gave to perhaps the most significant news story of the year.

Kudos - to the U.S. Government and the Iraqi people for pulling off the election.

Boos - to the mainstream media who have kept alive on the front pages the story about the CIA running secret prisons for terrorists overseas. If we are, good. Shame on this leaker as well. Again, it shows that we're serious about fighting a war.

Boos - to the leftist party leaders who continue to make outrageous defamations day after day and continue to call for retreat in Iraq.

Boos - to the Senate Democrats who successfully killed, for now anyway, the reauthorization of the Patriot Act. Is there any position that the Senate Democrats have taken in the last two years that Osama bin Laden wouldn't have voted the same way on?

Boos - finally, to the Islamic Army of Iraq who, not content to wait entirely for the Democrats and the media to win this war for them, put a bullet in the head of an American captive this week. Barbarians.