The upcoming elections are being presented as a referendum on Iraq. Democrats look to take over Congress, and perhaps the Senate as well. If that proves to be the case, Democrats will try to make good on removing our troops from Iraq. A scarier scenario I could not imagine.

What is at stake here is not just local politics. To withdraw from Iraq will endanger all of us. The Iraq war has been compared to the Vietnam war many times, and withdrawing from Iraq without winning will finally make the comparison a valid one. If we are to withdraw without a victory, we will be repeating the mistake made after the end of the Vietnam war. Remember, despite 30 years of misinformation from liberals, that we did not "lose" the Vietnam war when the Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973. We pledged our support to South Vietnam to enforce this treaty. It was not until the Democrats in Congress withdrew this support that we finally lost this war in 1975. In the next 4 years, millions of people in Southeast Asia were subjugated or killed.

We are now on the verge of repeating this mistake. If the Democrats succeed in getting our troops withdrawn, the terrorists will have won. And this time, the enemy will not be content to confine their killing and subjugation to their own corner of the world. They will be emboldened, and they will come after us.