A rare headline in yesterday's leftie Dominion Post: "War Support Surges." The Dom-Post reproduced a Times report that President Bush "plans to continue his Iraq troop surge well into next year after a string of positive reports left Democrats increasingly powerless to end the war."

How it must have pained the apologists for Islamo-Fascism at the Dom-Post to run that story. How it must pain the treasonous Democrats, or Dem-scum as I call them, in the US Congress that the story be true. How apposite, the words of Winston Churchill's grandson in February last year, when the Dem-scum were plunging headlong into betrayal mode:

"Precipitate withdrawal is the counsel of defeatism and cowardice, which, if it holds sway, will immeasurably increase the dangers that today confront, not just America, but the entire Western world. It is something for which we shall pay a terrible price in the years ahead. When great nations go to war —and they should do so only as a last resort—they must expect to suffer grievous losses and must commit to war with an unconquerable resolve to secure victory.

"In Iraq the United States has lost some 2,200 men and women, Britain just over 100. Compare that to the first day of the Battle of the Somme—1 July 1916—when the British Army in a single day, nay, before breakfast, lost 55,000 men killed, wounded or missing in action. Did we talk of quitting? What has happened to the mighty United States? Is it going soft? Are the elected representatives of the American people ready to surrender to those who threaten their homeland—indeed their civilian population—with death and destruction? I pray that they are not, and I call to mind the words of my grandfather, addressing the Canadian Parliament on New Year's Day 1941, in which—referring to the British nation dwelling around the globe, but it applies equally to our American cousins today—he declared:

"'We are a tough and hardy people! We have not travelled across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains & across the prairies, because we're made of sugar candy!'"

Alas, American and British media and academia at least ARE made of sugar-candy—or more accurately, slime. Western civilisation must hope, as the steely General Petraeus prepares to bring HIS report to Washington, that President Bush hasn’t rediscovered the Churchill in his spine too late.