Bush brings "comfort to our adversaries."

This speech by George W. Bush, selected president, who got that way by the likes of Jack Abramoff and the rest of the Republican money machine, who ignored the Aug 6. PDB, who has never explained why we went into Iraq, and leaving the rest of Americans to speculate that it was about oil, Israel, or grand PNAC conspiracies, is nothing short of an adversary to liberty< when he says what is reported in the NY Times:

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 - President Bush issued a stark warning to Democrats on Tuesday about how to conduct the debate on Iraq as midterm elections approach, declaring that Americans know the difference between "honest critics" and those "who claim that we acted in Iraq because of oil, or because of Israel, or because we misled the American people."

In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars here, Mr. Bush appeared to be trying to pre-empt a renewal of arguments about whether to begin a withdrawal immediately, as Representative John Murtha argued in November, or whether to keep a large presence in Iraq through the year...

In some of his most combative language yet directed at his critics, Mr. Bush said Americans should insist on a debate "that brings credit to our democracy, not comfort to our adversaries." That follows a theme that Vice President Dick Cheney set last week, when he said critics of the administration's conduct of the war risked undercutting the effort to defeat the insurgency...

Slightly less offensive, but perhaps more insidious is this bit:

"We have a responsibility to our men and women in uniform, who deserve to know that once our politicians vote to send them into harm's way, our support will be with them in good days and in bad days," Mr. Bush said. "And we will settle for nothing less than complete victory."

We don't have a "strategy for victory," that's complete nonsense and a lie. And given that, "nothing less than complete victory," like the GWOT itself, will always be out of our grasp, a state of permanent war.

Americans put up with a Cold War, but there simply is no reason for a permanent war today, except for the fact that there's a wannabee dictator on Pennsylvania avenue who wants expanded powers, despite the Constitution.