Was It Over When The Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor?

No, and it ain't over now, says Jed "Bluto" Babbin:

It's time to take the gloves off, and push back -- hard -- against the dishonest and deranged rhetoric of the left. Thanks to their relentless Bush-bashing and their reckless condemnations of how we are fighting the war, the latest polls say that only about one American in three says the nation is headed in the right direction and only 44% say the president is doing a good job. The hyperlib rhetoric not only flies in the face of the facts -- the economy is booming and the war is being won -- but it has enormously negative effects at home and overseas.

The libs are in the business of giving strength and hope to our enemies and making our allies doubt our intentions. At home, the liberals are fighting to take away the president's powers to fight this new kind of war in innovative ways. Congressional libs -- when they're not thinking wistfully about impeaching the president -- are trying to take away his power to order the NSA, outside the framework of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, to intercept calls and e-mails overseas and domestically. They want to close Gitmo, end the rendition of terrorist suspects to other nations cooperating in the war, and, most of all, they want to cut and run from Iraq. In short, the libs in Congress want to make sure we lose this war. We should not say the libs are unpatriotic. They are so much worse than that. They sound like Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's #2, whose latest rant demands the president admit defeat in Iraq.

Since 9-11, the president and most of us who support aggressive and innovative actions against the enemy have taken the high road. We have said that the enemy is evil, that he will strike again without warning and that America has the moral duty to protect its citizens from violence by preemptive action, but have not condemned the liberals for their hampering the war effort. As the war goes on the liberal community rises to its challenge by offering nothing more than incendiary rhetoric that encourages our enemy, discourages our troops and threatens legislation to prevent the president from fighting the war as it must be fought: with every device and weapon at our disposal.

It's not just that the Democrats don't have a policy to fight and win the war. They take pride in that lack. More than four years after 9-11 their party chairman proclaims it is not their duty to offer an alternative to what President Bush is doing. It's not just that they have no moral values or core principles to guide them other than an overwhelming desire to retake the White House. The Democratic Party is dominated by people who do not believe America is worth fighting for, do not support our troops and see enemies only in the White House, not abroad. Let's not call them names. Let's shame them publicly, and relentlessly reveal them for what they are.

They...want...us...to...lose. It's that simple.