Post-State of the Union

"In a system of two parties, two chambers, and two elected branches, there will always be differences and debate."
- Bush 1/31/06

Yes there is debate. But President Bush said that anyone who wants us to leave Iraq, mainly Democrats, are promoting "defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure." This is totally wrong. Mr. Bush spent over half of his speech on security, because security is the only thing that he has won on thus far. This will be the biggest issue in the mid-term elections coming in 2006. The Democrats have the majority in almost all issues other than security. The Democrats must push for the other issues coming into the elections and try and have security be only one of many issues, not have security be the ONLY issue.

As said in the Democratic response to the State of the Union by Tim Kaine, "The president called again tonight for our commitment to win the war on terror and to support our troops. All Americans embrace those goals. We can, and we must, defeat those who attack and kill innocent people. While the images of the World Trade Center are seared in the minds of all Americans, so too are the memories of those who died on sacred ground in Virginia in the attack on the Pentagon. Our commitment to winning the war on terrorism compels us to ask this question: Are the president's policies the best way to win this war?"

This war that President Bush has pushed forward on this country and the world needs to change direction. We must not let the terrorists win, but at the same time we must not give up our natural rights and our given civil liberties. If we give up our rights as Americans than we will, in part, have let the terrorists win. We must take the needed steps to stop future attempts, but we must not take away all that is American. We must stand united and stand with each other in supporting our own rights as at the same time we stop the people who are trying to take those rights away. If we give up the rights we have the right to have, than we have done the job that the terrorists are in part trying to achieve.