Can we trust liberal democrats to efficiently fight and win the war on terror?
959701
No turn it over to the military! Let them do their job, they are the ones on the ground!\n\nIf we are going to fight a war...we must fight to win. Turn it over to the generals and let the bullets fly! You win wars by attrition nor pin point accuracy!
230431
You don't.  That's the nature of terrorism.  This whole concept of a "war on terrorism" is laughable, because you fight terrorism, but you can't win.  Citizens of a democratic republic such as the USA expect to have too many freedoms, and you can't competently fight terrorism without infringing upon some of those freedoms.\n\nTerrorism and terrorist acts have always been around and always will be.  Anybody remember the Boston Tea Party?  Guess what folks, that was an act of terrorism.
720643
No it is not true. fight against terrorrism for british& USA is very easy but they play with terrorrism in order to get the permission to stay longer in middle east and allover the world.this fight is somthing like entertainment for them because it refresh the economy and social exercise
948275
Democrats have no answer to terrorism. Fighting terrorism needs guts. Pandering to the liberal media and trying to be popular will not make us safe. Tough problems need sacrifice and hard solutions. America was not built on lemon juice. We need people like President Bush.
834270
It will be an interesting challenge.  Many of the Democrats' supporters indeed are part of the anti-war hard left.  But the Democrats won in part because they ran more conservative candidates.  (The leaders are NOT moderates, though.)\n\nMinority parties can afford to be ideologically "pure."  Governing majorities have to juggle many warring factions.  The left may well end up grumbling about Pelosi, et. al.\n\nBut past experience indicates to me that the Democrats will overplay their hand.  But the Republicans' appearance of beng entrenched, bloated, corrupt spendthrifts more interested in holding office than in getting things done will linger.  A far cry from 1994.\n\nLots of chellenges here for everyone.  Maybe Bush pulled his punches too much in Iraq, thinking a major military operation to "clean out" the insurgents would sink the party.  I dunno.\n\nSince I'm on it, I think we see again how the Democrats and Republicans have different beliefs and spoke to different audiences.  Democrats thought the war was unnecessary and said things - comparing our troops to Naxis, etc. - meant for domestic consumption but picked up and exploited by our enemies.  Bush knows we are at war - his "stay the course" rhetoric was meant to show our enemies that we had resolve, but played domestically like he was arrogant and out of touch with the American people.  Bush lost the public relations war.\n\nMy big concern is defense.  I hope the Democrats don't force a retreat, and cripple our national security.  I fear they will, given their rhetroric, signalling weakess to our allies and enemies.  (Either that, or they will grudgingly support more of Bush's policies now that they are in power, having merely used the anti-war groups cynically to get votes.)  A Democrat program to "stop the killing" in Iraq and hobble surveillance programs having nothing to do with Iraq could lead to many, many more American lives lost in the long run than a policy of strength would.\n\nI hope I'm wrong.  But I have grave fears for the future.  I hope we don't look back at this election as a "Neville Chambrerlain" moment.\n\nThen again, it was hard for many conservatives and others to take Bush entirely seriously on homeland security when he seemed so lax on our own borders.\n\nJust some honest, rambling thoughts from a long-winded conservative.\n\nWhat happens next?  Time will tell . . . \n\nPS  I have to add - I think the people have spoken, and we have to respect that.  but I do fear for my country when I read all the idiotic posts here - "Bush caused 9/11," "Bush is in cahoots with the oil companies," etc.  What are they teaching kids these days?  Unbelievable.
64563
Not in the event of war ,i.e. (War on terrorism).. The liberals are really trying to get this one to stick, but I'm tellin' ya right now.. This dog ain't gonna hunt.. The lefties need to go find another pseudo-crisis to whine about..
957533
I swear it looks like some of them are.  I mean those of us who are liberal democrats can't say much either.  We've sure had our moments too.
800798
I get the feeling that the liberal left democrats and their ilk want all americans to get undressed and lay down so that when whatever country wants to invade us, when they are kicking us and raping us and robbing us they won't hurt their toes on our belt buckles or anything.
748948
Many Democrats want us to lose.\nBUT, we haven't lost yet.
858903
no, it's just that liberals have so much in their party to deal with, by that i mean sub-divided special interest groups, and have no focus. it is obvious when you ask them about a plan to get out of iraq. while the president says" stay the course" over and over the democrats say " we need to change course". over and over with no clear alternative to bush. multiply this by 1000 and " thar ye gowe". lack of focus.
85011
yeah in some ways I agree, but at least Stalin was able to do something when Hitler bit him in the butt!  When the Jihadists betray the leftists, they will just cower and beg for a Republican to take care of business.\n\nStudent of life?  you need to go to the School of life and stay away from the protesting lines.  Democrats are the ones that try to have the government rule our lives- and open your ears if you only hear about Bush tapping phone lines, because there is plenty of evidence showing Clinton doing the same things, just not as much press because he wagged the dog with a BJ in office! So maybe you should research the philosophy of democrats vs. republicans, and take that paper 2 cents back that you recieved from the bogus budgeting that your hero Bill Clinton did.
1167011
This is actually a pretty good question. The answer is complex, and not emotional. The Democratic base is a far left-wing anti-American socialist-communist group. The repeated appeal towards this base is more for lining their pockets during campaign season than anything else. It's a good front, but at the base of the argument EVERYONE agrees that unless we win the war on terror, we all lose. The debate is, of course, HOW we win.\n\nOsama bin laden is a cunning animal. He (it) is going to be anti-American. He always was, even before his fatwa against the United States in 98. He is smart enough to realize that the Democrats are in opposition to the president. It's no surprise (or shouldn't be) that he has chosen to use the lines of the democrats against the President. The only way they can win the war is to defeat America from within. How better than to incite the Vietnam-era-style protests. This war cannot be won on the court of public opinion, but it sure as hell can be lost there. That's why they sound amazingly alike...
18922
In my opinion, the War on Terror will only motivate the terrorists even more... Though its not possible to elimate terriorism in it's entirety, its something that needs to be done.
1043027
Oh absolutely. The cure for liberalism is education and intelligence. As long as Democrats can keep people poor and hopeless, and blame "the Man" then they have a constituency. When people are not desperate, it's too difficult to pull the wool over their eyes.
840447
If I were a terrorist, I, too, would be emboldened by the vote. \n\nGWBush and the majority of Republicans have made their objectives clear - unfortunately, the Democrats have wavered continuously between early withdrawal and outright cut and run.\n\nIraq is the center of the war on terror - all the Muslim nations know this and the terrorists know this - why don't we know this?
1152816
The terrorists will never fight like men.  They live only to kill women and children, especially Muslim women and children.  That is how they get excited.\n\nYou and I know that when it comes to the defense of the US, party line doesn't matter.  All that matters is safeguarding the American people.  If a Democrat (like Murtha) or Republican wants to cut and run, it is only because they are cowards and should not be allowed to hold public office.
780986
Impossible.\n\nWe Dems support all sorts of rights, and we defend the Constition. And Dems oppose violent terror groups that destroys life.