Liberalism equals ignorance may be an understatement!  While watching "Morning Joe" on MSNBC this morning, I noticed that Barack Obama's  Foreign Affairs Adviser, Susan Rice, continued with the tired argument that we are less safe now than before 9/11 because of Iraq.  Do liberals really believe this?  Is it just that liberals are unable to give any credit to the Bush Administration?

The fact is that there has not been another Islamic Terrorist's attack on US soil because they are focused on Iraq also.  I've heard President Bush allude to the fact, and I have understood this from day one of the invasion or Iraq, that we are fighting them in Iraq so we don't have to fight them in OUR streets.  Al Queda and the like have a very limited amount of resources and they are limited in their ability to fight on multiple fronts, even more so than nations with greater resources.  So, do liberals understand that Al Queda cannot fight us around the world, or attack us at home, because they are bogged down in Iraq themselves? 

The war in Iraq and the war on terror are intricately linked.  Not because Saddam Hussein had anything to do with 9/11, but because the Bush Administration recognized that we were better off to create an actual, physical front for the war on terror!  What better way to create that front than to do so in a place that needed to be dealt with anyway?  Invading Iraq and taking out Saddam killed two birds with one stone.  We created a physical front for the war on terror, and we got rid of a dictatorial tyrant that had been a thorn in our collective backsides for years. 

Yes, there were some major mistakes during the infancy of the occupation, but it does not change the fact that the war in Iraq is a "distraction" for the terrorist also.  They are too busy fighting us in Iraq to attack us at home.  While the loss of even one soldier's life is a sad occurence, it must be understood that our soldiers are much more capable of fighting a war than our citizens.

All in all, liberals and those that support Barack Obama have got to realize that the war in Iraq is a heavy burden for Al Queda and other terrorist.  Without that burden, they would be better situated to attack our homeland.  Furthermore, how ignorant is it to sit under the umbrella of safety that has been created over our homeland, the umbrella that has proven inpenetrible thus far, and claim that we are not safer because of the Administration's actions?  The competency in which Bush and company have demonstrated in protecting the homeland has been so keenly conducted that liberals have forgetten about the dangers that exist in this world!  Yes, the world is a more dangerous place, because we are stirring the hornets nest, which is an entirely necesarry evil.  However, until when and if our homeland is attacked again, they have got to recognize that we are safer at home, and that is the center piece of the grand design of the war in Iraq.