President Bush is a strong leader

When will the citizens of the United States grow a backbone, stop listening to the voices of the minority manipulating our media and take a stand for what is right instead of what is popular.

On Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. was violently and without justification attacked because our enemies knew we would never finish our response to their actions. They knew we were a nation ruled by popular opinions and polls of the moment, mindlessly following the beliefs of a few celebrities that misuse their access to the media.

Our country's bipartisan leaders, enraged by the actions of our enemies, decided overwhelmingly to respond by declaring war and sending troops and lest we forget, the population, you and I, overwhelmingly supported their decision.

Our president has repeatedly told the country that this war was not going to be fast or easy. Our president made the hardest decision a president can make when he sent our troops to war and instead of standing behind him, we have conveniently changed our own positions and hypocritically pointed our fingers at him for staying the course we told him to take.

I do not like war any more than you do and I have children of my own that will be old enough to fight within a year but my hat is off to him and my adoration of his conviction has never been higher.

President Bush is not guilty of "tyranny" or "crimes against peace" as the writer suggested in last week's issue. He's guilty of being a man and a leader of conviction that does what's right regardless of public opinion. He's guilty of honoring the men and women who have lost their lives in this war by finishing what "we" started rather than letting their deaths be in vain. LeRoy Wilkins Moorpark