California Conservative

During his interview with Brit Hume, President Bush said that winning in Iraq took priority over winning the 2006 elections. I’m thankful that he winning was his top priority. Here’s what he told Hume:

“During the darkest days of Iraq, people came to me and said, ‘You’re creating incredible political difficulties for us,’” the current president said as his term draws to a close. “And I said, ‘Oh, really? What do you suggest I do?’ And some suggested retreat, pull out of Iraq.

“But I had faith that freedom exists in people’s souls and therefore, if given a chance, democracy and Iraqi-style democracy could survive and work,” the president said. “I didn’t compromise that principle for the sake of trying to, you know, bail out my political party.”

Thankfully, we had someone in the White House who took terrorism seriously. Unfortunately, the 42nd president didn’t take it serious.

Twenty years from now, serious historians will record that President Bush’s decisions liberated 50,000,000 people while preventing numerous terrorist attacks after the horrific attacks of 9/11. Twenty years from now, serious historians will say that terrorism wasn’t a priority for President Clinton even after the bombing of the Khobar Towers or after the bombing of the East African embassies or after the bombing of the USS Cole. Twenty years from now, serious historians will credit President Bush with liberating Iraq and Afghanistan, countries that will be strong American allies.

It’s rare that an American president puts their greatest priorities on liberty. It was certainly a high priority for JFK, FDR, Reagan and Lincoln. Though I don’t rank President Bush as high as I rank that group, I do recognize that he liberated more people than JFK and Lincoln.

Achieving important goals like spreading liberty and ridding nations of tyrannical rulers is more important than winning elections because our nation’s security is important to several generations’ well-being whereas the political pendulum swings back and forth.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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