It seems to me that the major issue in the campaign for president, especially this year, is leadership. We have a president who inherited a sadly neglected FBI, CIA and armed forces. After our nation was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush reacted positively and declared the war on terrorism and invaded Afghanistan, deposing the Taliban. Afghanistan has since had free elections for the first time in its history. After watching Saddam Hussein ignore 17 demands to disarm by the United Nations, Bush made the correct decision to eliminate Hussein and his terrorist regime, which we have done. Progress in Iraq has been slow but sure. John Kerry says he would have continued negotiating--shades of Neville Chamberlain and his negotiating with another tyrant, Adolf Hitler. We do not need an appeaser as president of the United States.