An interesting email sent by a friend!

'You ain't gonna like losing.' Author unknown.





      President Bush did make a bad mistake in the war on terrorism. But
the mistake was not his decision to go to war in Iraq .


      Bush's mistake came in his belief that this country is the same
one his father fought for in WWII.  It is not.

      Back then, they had just come out of a vicious depression. The
country was steeled by the hardship of that depression, but they still
believed fervently in this country. They knew that the people had
elected their leaders, so it was the people's duty to back those
leaders.

      Therefore, when the war broke out the people came together,
rallied behind, and stuck with their leaders, whether they had voted for
them or not or whether the war was going badly or not.

      And war was just as distasteful and the anguish just as great then
as it is today. Often there were more casualties in one day in WWII than
we have had in the entire Iraq war. But that did not matter. The people
stuck with the President because it was their patriotic duty as
Americans to put aside their differences in WWII and work together to
win that war.

      Everyone from every strata of society, from young to old pitched
in. Small children pulled little wagons around to gather scrap metal for
the war effort. Grade school students saved their pennies to buy stamps
for war bonds to help the effort.

      Men who were too old or medically 4F lied about their age or
condition, trying their best to join the military. Women doubled their
work to keep things going at home. Harsh rationing of everything from
gasoline to soap and butter was imposed, yet there was very little
complaining.


      You never heard prominent people on the radio belittling the
President. Interestingly enough in those days there were no fat cat
actors and entertainers who ran off to visit and fawn over dictators of
hostile countries and complain to them about our President. Instead,
they made upbeat films and entertained our troops to help the troops'
morale. And a bunch even enlisted.

      And imagine this: Teachers in schools actually started the day off
with a Pledge of Allegiance, and with prayers for our country and our
troops!

      Back then, no newspaper would have dared point out certain weak
spots in our cities where bombs could be set off to cause the maximum
damage. No newspaper would have dared complain about what we were doing
to catch spies.

      A newspaper would have been laughed out of existence if it had
complained that German or Japanese soldiers were being 'tortured' by
being forced to wear women's underwear, being subjected to interrogation
by a woman, being scared by a dog or that they did not have air
conditioning.

      There were a lot of things different back then. We were not
subjected to a constant bombardment of pornography, perversion and
promiscuity in movies or on radio. We did not have legions of
crackheads, dope pushers and armed gangs roaming our streets


      No, President Bush did not make a mistake in his handling of
terrorism. He made the mistake of believing that we still had the
courage and fortitude of our fathers. He believed that this was still
the country that our fathers fought so dearly to preserve.

      It is not the same country. It is now a cross between Sodom and
Gomorra and the land of Oz. We did unite for a short while after 9/11,
but our attitude changed when we found out that defending our country
would require some sacrifices.

      We are in great danger. The terrorists are fanatic Muslims. They
believe that it is okay, even their duty, to kill anyone who will not
convert to Islam.  It has been estimated that about one third or over
three hundred million Muslims that are sympathetic to the terrorists
cause...Hitler and Tojo combined did not have nearly that many potential
recruits.

      So...we either win it - or lose it - and you ain't gonna like
losing.

      America is not at war. The military is at war. America is at the
mall...buying foreign made products instead of products made in America.