Good News all the way around

My son came home a couple hours after his surgery where his doctor removed a right testicular cancer. A six inch incision was made on his lower right abdomen, as well as an incision all the way around the scrotum. When Chris came home he felt pretty good, but mainly because the local hadn't worn off any. A couple hours later, it wore off, and the pain set in.

On December 29th of 2006 I had a double hernia operation to repair holes in the muscle in my stomach tissue. One of those holes was 9cm X 14cm. The pain for the first four days was horrendous. It took a few weeks before I was functioning normally. Christopher's incision is 6 inches long. As I told him, this will be a tough ride, but storms in our life such as this builds character.

Here's the good news: no cancer was found between the tumor and the abdomen. A CT Scan on Wednesday will make sure the cancer hasn't gone into his lymphatic system, but as it stands, the cancer remained in the mass which was removed yesterday. The pain may be intense, but this horrendous surgery saved his life. Like with anything in life, doing what you need to do to solve a problem is often not the easiest road, but in the long run the suffering is less.

The war on terror is similar, I suppose. Like surgery, war is not desireable, but sometimes necessary to keep something from getting worse in the long run. Criticism of this war on terror, particularly regarding the battlefield in Iraq, has been steadily provided by the Democrats and the mainstream media. Now, however, as a result of our involvement with taking the war to the enemy, rather than waiting for the next terror attack against the United States, is providing dividends.Through the heroic efforts of American Troops abroad, a call for ceasefire in Iraq from Muslim Nations is going out - because they realize that America will not back down. As we are hitting Islamic militants in Somalia, Lebanon is pounding Al Qaeda in their own country, because this terror group's production of terror is unacceptable to freedom loving people. Riots in Venezuela by citizens demanding freedom ae erupting. Iraqi citizens are calling on U.S. troops to secure their neighborhoods.

The mainstream media fail to tell you the positive stories of the conflict in Iraq. Rather than tell you how well it is going in the country, they would rather key in on an IED killing troops, or violence erupting in a neighborhood between insurgents. Don't get me wrong, those stories are important too, but are actually a minority when it comes to what is going on in Iraq.

Today news of a plot against New York's JFK airport foiled by the FBI came to light. Because we have not allowed the Liberals to completely tie the hands of our security forces and intelligence community, such good news still rises.
We are winning this war on terror - despite what defeatist elitists like Reid says.

God Bless America.

Today on Political Pistachio Radio we will be joined by Cary Cartter, 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate, and fellow blogger. Will discuss the major issues facing America, how he will deal with such issues, and what he believes it will take to return America to true Conservatism.

Tune in at Political Pistachio Radio today at 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern for this special episode of my radio show. Also, following my show My Point Radio will air at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern: Amy Procter will join them tonight so she can update My Point listeners on Iraq and other current events.