Say Anything Blog

By PAUL JACKSON

Spoken by an American, but appearing in the Canadian media(and not ours):

United States stands resolute

President George W. Bush is going to persevere and prevail in beating world terrorism and bringing stable democracies to both Afghanistan and Iraq.

There will be no wavering and no withdrawal.

These were the heartening words given me by U.S. Ambassador to Canada, David H. Wilkins.

So the mischief-makers, the defeatists, the fellow travellers and the Liberal-Left cabal better get out their handkerchiefs and start sobbing.

Their ignoble cause will fail.

The course of decency and democracy will win.

Now Wilkins, who visited the Sun for an editorial board meeting this past week, is a very astute and articulate fellow.

He spent 25 years in the South Carolina House of Representatives, 11 of them as Speaker of the House.

During those 25 years he was on the cutting edge of most major reform initiatives from welfare reform to property tax relief, and from educational accountability to truth-in-sentencing laws.

Wilkins is an affable, engaging man, but also one with a steel-trap mind.

In that, he’s very much like his boss back in the White House.

As noted by Sun columnist Salim Mansur—the best commentator by far in Canada on the Middle East and Islamic terrorism—Michael Novak, the noted Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher, recently described Bush as “the bravest president” for staying firm in confronting the contemporary barbarians despite the venom of his peers.

The U.S ambassador echoed those sentiments, pointing out Bush will determinedly do what is right rather that what the polls may say is unpopular.

America’s salvation matters more than what the temporarily up-and-down swings in the polls say.

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My friends, we are going to win this fight for civilization, and freedom for millions of men, women and children who never had it before, and George W. Bush will eventually be acclaimed as a great historic leader.

Read the whole thing.

The volume of MSM propaganda in this country is so overwhelming that one has to go elsewhere for a balance of opinion.  How sad.