Why We Fight

About five paragrphs down in an ABC News story about casualties in Iraq, we find this:

"Elsewhere, a suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt blew himself up in a home for the elderly in the southern city of Basra, killing two people and wounding three."

That's right. A home for the elderly was the latest target for the jihadis.

And so many -- in Congress, in Hollywood, in Academia, in elite newsrooms -- want to reward and embolden these murderous psychopaths by pulling out of Iraq. Murtha, Kerry and the Dixie Chicks say "cut and run."

The overwhelming majority of our guys and gals actually putting their lives on the line over there simply want to be allowed to do the job. They know it's winnable. They know they're winning. And hopefully they know the vast majority of us are behind them.