Manage the retreat or win the war

I'm old enough to have lived through the Vietnam war and our defeat in that war. For 20 years afterwards we suffered the pain and humiliation of losing that war. The main lesson learned from that war was that we went into it without the desire or goal of winning it. Our presidents who waged that war did not do it with victory in mind and we ultimately lost the war. Now we are in a war in Iraq, you can argue how we got there and why but that doesn't change the basic fact that we are there and the decision we have to make now is whether we are going to win or lose this war.

Kerry has stated that it was and is the wrong war and he has also stated that he will remove troops from Iraq from 6 months to 4 years. That is the definition of retreat and you cannot win a war you are retreating from. The terrorists who are fighting us will see that all they have to do is hold out until Kerry leaves and then move in and take over.

But consider this. As Kerry pulls troops out of Iraq, what happens to those who are left. As more and more troops go it leaves those left more and more vulnerable to attack. Kerry himself said that he didn't want to be the last solder who died in a war that was a mistake. Isn't that the fate he has destined for the last solders he pulls out of Iraq? It comes down to whether you as an American want to suffer the humiliation of a defeat and lose the war in Iraq or do you want to win.

Kerry has stated that he wants to lose, he wants to retreat, he doesn't want to win. I want to win, I know what it felt like for 20 years after the loss in Vietnam and I don't want to feel that again. I want the loved ones of those who gave their lives to know that it wasn't done in vain, that they gave their lives for freedom. I want our solders to come home victorious and be able to hold their heads high and not feel ashamed for losing the war. Kerry doesn't have it in him to give us victory, he only knows loss, he only knows how to lose, he is a loser. I want a winner and I want to win. I want Bush because he has always said it would be hard, that it would take a long time and that he would stay the course and win.

And that's what I want... Do you?