Wrong war - wring time?

Wrong war - wrong time?
Sometimes you need to look at the past to see where your going or how you got to where you're at. Especially when it pertains to America or world events it helps to look back. For that reason I'm always combing history books and old books in general to help understand the present.
As I was reading "Lake County History", the chapter titled Lake County in the Civil War I came across something that really pertained to today. A soldier wrote home thanking the people for the kindness while on leave.... but there was much to give us pain.... he went on to mention Copperheads.
So I researched the term Copperheads to better understand that paragraph.
Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North, who nominally favored the Union but strongly opposed the war, demanded immediate peace and resisted the draft laws.
They wanted Lincoln and the Republicans removed and saw the president as a tyrant who was destroying American republican values. It went on and on of acts and demonstrations that demoralized some in the North and encouraged the South.
War is never pretty and something we ALL wish didn't have to take place, sometimes though its the only option. Can you imagine if we appeased these people and listened? America today would be divided!
I didn't need to go that far back though to tie in the current Democrat party as being on the fringe all I had to do was make the connection with the Vietnam war protesters. But I wanted to emphasize how consistently wrong the Liberal Left Democrat party has been for YEARS!
Whether you agree with this war in Iraq or not doesn't matter at this point, what matters is succeeding and getting our troops home. One of the biggest reasons why we didn't win the war in Vietnam was the resistance at home. The enemy knew they would be victorious if they could hold out long enough.
If you think back a few years ago when this conflict started in Iraq things were looking as if it would be an early exit when President Bush declared "mission accomplished". When did all the uprising and insurgency start? It seemed to coincide with Howard Dean saying this war is wrong and then John Kerry picked up the antiwar message with wrong war - wrong time. They knew then as they do now that they can't beat the Republicans on moral or economic issues so they had to find a difference. The antiwar message was it.
Sadly as in Vietnam the violence in Iraq will escalate as long as America is divided. Especially during an election year when one party is campaigning about how wrong the war is and promises to end it now. The insurgents know that with an increase in violence they can possibly change the outcome of an election in their favor. The difference though between Vietnam and Iraq is that in Vietnam only one country fell, but if we fail in Iraq the consequences will be felt globally! The terrorists will have a safe haven and a country to launch new attacks.
Hopefully Americans will realize that protesting and making antiwar a platform to win an election is wrong and costs lives and in this election the American voters will support our troops and effort in Iraq and tell the Democrats - wrong party -wrong time.
C. K. M.

It always amazed me that the liberal left screams antiwar messages and rants on and on about bringing our troops home as if they are so concerned about their welfare, but when the troops arrive home they are either frowned upon or called names, or worse yet, their funerals are interrupted with protests.