In today's Chicago Tribune, Alfred N. Godinez writes that "President Bush's Iraq war... is a failure at best and a disaster at worst! (Voice of the people, Tuesday December 12, 2006). He then extolls the liberal and Democrat viewpoints, saying that "your (our) beliefs are now substantiated."

Let us not forget that part of this perceived failure can be blamed on this group of liberals and Democrats that he himself is a part of. From the beginning of the conflict, the effort by our country to succeed in Iraq was consistently undermined by these people. Our country has had to fight two wars, one in Iraq, and one at home, and the war at home is the one that is deciding this conflict.

The coalition soldiers in Iraq have not lost a single battle and have not been unsuccessful in any mission they have undertaken. The terrorists in Iraq have persisted because every act of terrorism they commit is magnified through the prism of the liberal media, and actions by the United States to combat them were undermined or overlooked. The enemy knows this, and have been using the liberals as pawns, knowing that every time a car-bombing or beheading takes place, some of our own citizens will exxagerate the significance of the act. One car bombing by the terrorists is worth 100 successful strikes by our side, thanks to the Bush-hating, "blame America first" leftists.

From calling the conflict a quagmire within weeks (if not days) of the beginning of the war to undermining our country's ability to fight it, these people hold as much responsibility for failure as does anyone else. And if, in the end, we do not succeed in Iraq, I will know who to blame.