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OK, yes his going to Iraq was a PR move and a morale boost for the troops over there. HOWEVER, by going there, Bush made a statement to our country and the rest of the world: We are going to see this one through! As Peter Brooks wrote "The president's lead-from-the-front visit was clearly a lot more than a photo op as some have suggested. True, it was symbolic - but some symbols, like the American flag, have powerful, hopeful, enduring meanings. " I couldn't have said it better myself!
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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