Kendrick Meek: “I include for the Record the Wall Street Journal article previously referred to: [From the Wall Street Journal, Sept. 7…”

“I include for the Record the Wall Street Journal article previously referred to: [From the Wall Street Journal, Sept. 7, 2006] Bush and Lincoln (By Newt Gingrich) Washington.--Five years have passed since the horrific attack on our American homeland, and, still, there is one serious, undeniable fact we have yet to confront: We are, today, not where we wanted to be and nowhere near where we need to be. In April of 1861, in response to the firing on Fort Sumter, President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to serve for 90 days. Lincoln had greatly underestimated the challenge of preserving the Union. No one imagined that what would become the Civil War would last four years and take the lives 620,000 Americans. By the summer of 1862, with thousands of Americans already dead or wounded and the hopes of a quick resolution to the war all but abandoned, three political factions had emerged. There were those who thought the war was too hard and would have accepted defeat by negotiating the end of the United States by allowing the South to secede. Second were those who urged staying the course by muddling through with a cautious military policy and a desire to be ``moderate and reasonable'' about Southern property rights, including slavery. We see these first two factions today. The Kerry-Gore- Pelosi-Lamont bloc declares the war too hard, the world too dangerous.…”