A Republican president once uttered the following statement:

"To maintain peace in the future it is necessary to be prepared for war... we may become the envy of nations (or peoples) ... and unless we are prepared for it we may be in danger of a combined movement being some day made to crush us out... [we] (US) seem to have forgotten the lessons it (the war) taught, and are going on as if in the greatest security, without the power to resist an invasion ... The war has made us a nation of great power and intelligence. We have but little to do to preseve peace, happiness and properity at home, and the respect of other nations. Our experience ought to teach us the necessity of the first; our power secures the latter."

U.S. Grant
Personal Memoirs of US Grant - May 23, 1883

I hope, like President Grant realized, our liberation of Iraq will bring great harmony between Muslims and the rest of the World. This after the radical and hateful Islamic peoples realizes hatred is not the solution. After all when Grant wrote the above words he really felt that the Civil War's conclusion ushered an era of good will between Federal and Confederates. It is after all that is said and done the Civil War and the War Against Terrorism were and are about winning or losing but about fighting over the correct principles that prevailed in 1863 and still prevail today. These principles of "peace, happiness and prosperity at home" are still worth fight over today here in our soil or in Iraqi soil.