Iraq:

The United Nations is breaking for cover.

The Red Cross is breaking for cover.

The Democrats want to break for cover.

I agree with Zell Miller. The next five years are crucial for the survival of our nation, and will determine the kind of world future generations will live in.

Read more below: Jay Bryant sums it up pretty well.

Are The Terrorists Right? by Jay Bryant

The Muslim terrorists think America is soft. They believe that if you put enough pressure - violent, physical, in-your-face pressure on the United States, it will turn tail and run.

The next few months will determine whether they're right or not, and if it proves that they are, you can forget about American world leadership for a long, long time.

Here's the evidence for their point of view:

1. We gave up in Vietnam. As a football coach might explain after a loss, we didn't get beat, we beat ourselves.

2. Even with a warmonger like (hiss, boo) Ronald Reagan in the White House, we pulled the Marines out of Lebanon in 1983 after a single terrorist attack resulted in casualties.

3. In the first Gulf War, we didn't finish the job, abandoned our allies inside Iraq and went home as soon as the easy part was behind us.

4. In Mogadishu, Somalia, we let a handful of rag-tag rebels in pickup trucks bully us right off the continent.

5. In Yugoslavia, we twice made "no casualties" the guiding principle of our policy, and now the general who implemented that policy is a leading candidate for President.

You've got to admit, that's a pretty impressive list.

From September 11, 2001 until May 1, 2003, it looked for sure that President George W. Bush had put an end to that record of cowardly leadership, but now the president's approval rate is sagging in the wake of a constant bombardment from - not so much the terrorists in Iraq, but from the Democratic presidential candidates on the campaign hustings, and their toadies in Congress, academia and the media.

Egged on by an activist base within their party that cowers at the thought of a strong America, the Democrats have turned their backs on their Roosevelt-Truman heritage.

One listens in vain for a proposal from any one of them on how they would go about building a free, safe, prosperous and pro-American Iraq. Instead, they preach a negative, accusatory message based on falsehoods, absurd interpretations of events and vindictiveness.

There's only one place they can go, and they're headed that way at breakneck speed: capitulation, withdrawal, bring the troops home and abandon the Iraqis to their fate. Who cares about them, anyway?

Mark my words, if a Democrat is elected President in 2004, it's over - not just in Iraq and Afghanistan, but throughout the world. No one old enough to read this column will live long enough to see a strong America again.

We'll be Gulliverized by modern-day Lilliputians. Our very sovereignty will be at risk, as the United Nations and other organized elements of Lilliputia tie us down with a million strength-sapping strings. Our economy will grow weaker and weaker, as one Kyoto Treaty after another takes its toll. If we object, we'll be demonized like college boys in Feminism 101.

Why is it that when a murderous terrorist bombs a Red Cross building, Democrat politicians feel no outrage toward the perpetrators, but instead vent their anger at the one man, George W. Bush, who's trying to rid the world of such disgusting creatures?

My only complaint with the administration is that it is not being nearly forceful enough in answering the poisonous fumes rising from the sons and daughters of Tammany. Thoughtful statements from Powell, Rumsfeld, Rice, even the President are not enough. I say no more Mr. Nice Guy.

Now is the time for America to rise up, to bear the burden and pay the price for freedom, and, yes, let us say it, to make the world safe for democracy. How many days of infamy must we endure before the party that once cheered all those words stops acting like the al Qaeda-American Bund, and finds the nerve to stand for something more enduring than the Iowa caucuses.

The fasting month of Ramadan is supposedly a time for inner reflection, devotion to God, and self-control. This Ramadan is being perverted by people whose worldly goals have nothing to do with any of that - who defile their religion and kill humanitarian workers - all because they believe that if they are violent enough, America's knees will buckle, and they can subject their fellow Muslims throughout the world to a Talibanesque nightmare, and destroy the power of the Great Satan.

Terrorists deserve the contempt of Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, atheists, and even Democrats.

If it doesn't happen, they'll win. Because they'll have been proven right. We're too soft to lead the world.