Why do we need this speech?

I guess Bush's speech was needed, given the polls and the fears among our troops that their heroism might go for naught. But I keep asking myself why people don't get it. I'd bet a large percentage of Americans still believe that we went to war in Iraq for its oil. (If that were the reason, why didn't we attack Saudi Arabia?) There are and were real strategic advantages in choosing Iraq as the target, but all the Dems want to talk about is the missing WMD, and the false assertion that we're losing the war.

Read my lips. The war was won within a month. What we're seeing now is the occupation. Just as in Germany after VE day, there are dead-enders and fanatics on the other side who think they can still salvage a win by use of sabotage, bombs and ambushes. But they didn't prevail. There are still Nazis in Germany, but that doesn't suggest that we lost the war, any more than the fact that there are still liberal Senators in Washington means that they won the last elections.

Why should we have to keep explaining all this? People either don't pay attention or they've made up their minds based on liberal propaganda that makes as little sense as it conveys truth. Maybe the speech will wake up a few people, but if he really wanted to get attention he should have done more than just repeat what we all should understand by now. He should have said something shockingly frank, like "Too many Americans are fat and happy slobs who don't appreciate what they have and aren't willing to defend it." Bush has had a epiphany, like Lincoln did, that freedom must grow and spread around the world in order to defeat slavery. You don't win over evil by giving it safe haven inside its own borders. That means that we have to expand the realm of liberty and democracy, not just fight to the existing borders. That's what LBJ and the current crop of quagmire liberals don't get. They would dither and allow the terrorists respite to recover their strength and devise new attacks on us, just as LBJ's refusal to attack North Vietnam kept its war materiel pouring in from the Russians and Chinese. I wish that Bush had made clear that the Syrian, Saudi and Iranian borders of Iraq will not be safe haven for terrorists either. Maybe we already have special ops forces in those countries developing information about targets. I certainly hope so. But the real solution is going to be confronting these people where they're hiding, not by trying to kill them after they get to Iraq.