Last night I was going through the numer­ous DVDs that I own.  I came across the CNN Spe­cial DVD, “CNN Trib­ute:  Amer­ica Remem­bers — The Events of Sep­tem­ber 11 and America’s Response”.  So I decided to pop it in and watch it.  As hor­ri­fy­ing as it was on the day it hap­pened, and as hor­ri­fy­ing it was to relive that day by watch­ing the DVD, I think it was impor­tant to do.  And I think every Amer­i­can should watch this over and over just so they can remem­ber what the “zealot ter­ror­ist thugs” did to us — and what we as a Nation vowed to do to them.

The DVD has Pres­i­dent Bush’s “State of the Union” address from Sep­tem­ber 20, 2001 also.  I watched the speech and imme­di­ately received chill­bumps and a lump in my throat.  It was a pow­er­ful speech, and it was from his heart.  It was what every Amer­i­can across the nation was say­ing in their heart.  It was what we wanted our Pres­i­dent to say.  Now where are we as a Nation almost eight years later?  Amer­ica — what have we done to our­selves?  What hap­pened to our vow to “Never For­get”?  What hap­pened to our promise to do what­ever it takes to defeat terrorism? 

Unfor­tu­nately it wasn’t but a few months after that fate­ful day that we as a Nation dis­solved into par­ti­san pol­i­tics, rhetoric, and hatred.  Every Demo­c­rat decided to hate Bush sim­ply because we didn’t fin­ish the War or Ter­ror in four days like we did the Gulf War in 1991.  Nutjobs climbed out of their hid­ing holes to say that 9/11 was an “inside job”.  They began say­ing that (as in the case of one Rosie O’Donnell) that the Twin Tow­ers fell because of a “con­trolled demo­li­tion” by the Bush Administration…that steel couldn’t melt.  Well, I chal­lenge them to go and watch this DVD and see if they could say that after­wards with hon­esty.  (Of course they can’t — they don’t have an hon­est bone in their body).  America — I beg you to remem­ber this:

Amer­i­cans are ask­ing: How will we fight and win this war?

We will direct every resource at our com­mand — every means of diplo­macy, every tool of intel­li­gence, every instru­ment of law enforce­ment, every finan­cial influ­ence, and every nec­es­sary weapon of war — to the dis­rup­tion and defeat of the global ter­ror network.

This war will not be like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with its deci­sive lib­er­a­tion of ter­ri­tory and its swift con­clu­sion. It will not look like the air war above Kosovo two years ago, where no ground troops were used and not a sin­gle Amer­i­can was lost in combat.

Our response involves far more than instant retal­i­a­tion and iso­lated strikes.  Amer­i­cans should not expect one bat­tle, but a lengthy cam­paign, unlike any other we have seen. It may include dra­matic strikes, vis­i­ble on tele­vi­sion, and covert oper­a­tions, secret even in suc­cess. We will starve ter­ror­ists of fund­ing, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or rest. And we will pur­sue nations that pro­vide aid or safe haven to ter­ror­ism. Every nation, in every region, now has a deci­sion to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the ter­ror­ists. From this day for­ward, any nation that con­tin­ues to har­bor or sup­port ter­ror­ism will be regarded by the United States as a hos­tile régime.

Go read the rest of the speech.  Try to remem­ber what it felt like on that day.  Then try and look at our cur­rent Pres­i­dent and Gov­ern­ment and ask your­self:  Is this what Amer­ica needs right now?  Is this the lead­er­ship we deserve?  How can we fight and win this war with this government?

Then I ask you to do this…pray for our Coun­try.  Pray for our troops.  And yes, pray — pray for our cur­rent lead­er­ship.  Pray that they will turn from their cur­rent path and back to a Post-9/11 men­tal­ity and approach to defeat­ing ter­ror­ism and keep­ing Amer­ica safe.  Pray that they will stop spend­ing our money and putting us on a road to social­ism.  Pray that they will real­ize that what we need right now is a fis­cally and socially con­ser­v­a­tive gov­ern­ment, one that has the peo­ple at the heart…Not big­ger gov­ern­ment, but smaller.

In all that lies before us, may God grant us wis­dom, and may He watch over the United States of America.