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...most immediate question inside Iraq, however, is how Saddam?s capture will effect the ongoing insurgency that has killed more than 200 U.S. troops and wounded thousands since President Bush?s ?mission accomplished? appearance on the U.S.S. Lincoln on May 1. Saddam?s capture is certainly a body blow those among the insurgents who hoped to restore Saddam to power - but that is not necessarily a goal that has been common to all of them. The insurgency could suffer some even more immediate knocks if Saddam cooperates with his captors, to whom he could provide an intelligence bonanza...
President Bush has come and gone, his two-and-a-half-hour Thanksgiving dinner by stealth at Baghdad's airport symbolizing both his personal commitment to the Iraq mission and the immense security difficulties plaguing that mission. In marked contrast to his May 1 victory speech aboard the U.S.S. Lincoln, President Bush went to Baghdad to buoy the spirits of an army still very much at war. November was the bloodiest month for U.S. forces since invading Iraq, with 83 American soldiers, and a further 35 troops from coalition allies, having been killed over 30 days...
...Gettysburg Address defines America. We read Lincoln’s words and are immediately imbued with a sense of our country’s purpose. Lincoln, however, enunciated his immortal words in an effort to define the civil war. He called the war a test of whether a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal could survive. After a terrible battle, Lincoln reminded America that the soldiers’ lives were not lost in vain. Lincoln gave the nation hope...
...hope that Lincoln awakened at Gettysburg was the same hope extinguished on the day John F. Kennedy died. The assassination ended the promise of the New Frontier. Unlike Lincoln, Kennedy was struck down before he accomplished his mission. That mission remains unfulfilled even today. My generation still searches for a leader who inspires us the way he inspired our parents, who engages us in political discourse, and who brings us all closer to the spirit of the nation...
...Both Lincoln and Kennedy guided the country through peril. Both men gave their lives for their country. Both remain beloved. Lincoln said at Gettysburg that the world would “little note, nor long remember what we say here.” He could not have been more wrong. His speech, and all the speeches and memories of Lincoln and Kennedy, will endure in this country forever...