The Washington Times reports that leaders and supporters of the Iraqi insurgency say that the objective of attacks in recent weeks has been to defeat President Bush.
"If the U.S. Army suffered numerous humiliating losses, [Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John] Kerry would emerge as the superman of the American people," said Mohammad Amin Bashar, a leader of the Muslim Scholars Association, a hard-line clerical group that vocally supports the resistance.
Resistance leader Abu Jalal boasted that the mounting violence had already hurt Mr. Bush's chances.
"American elections and Iraq are linked tightly together," he told a Fallujah-based Iraqi reporter. "We've got to work to change the election, and we've done so. With our strikes, we've dragged Bush into the mud."
Russia's President Putin has also said that terrorists have "the goal of preventing Bush's election.'' Putin also said:
"We must understand that in this case this will give international terrorism an added impulse in their activities, will give them additional strength and may lead to their growing activity in the various regions of the world."
So Kerry's infamous inconsistency on Iraq has convinced the evil doers that we are not determined in the war against terrorism and that if they kill enough soldiers, unarmed police cadets and recruits, and school children we will cut and run. I pray they are wrong. I also pray that the American people are steadfast enough to show the evil doers that, unlike Spain and the Philippines, we have the guts to stay the course no matter what evil they sow.
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