Posted on 10/30/2004 8:22:27 AM PDT by dano1
Tuesday's election provides one of the starkest political choices since, uh, the last one. A new generation of young voters, whose only exposure to war has been their less-than-ideal history books, will join older and, it is to be hoped, wiser adults in deciding how to prosecute a modern war that is unlikely to be "won" in the traditional sense, or go away in the historical sense.
The war against an ideology that is not of this world, but which has Earthly applications, trumps all other issues. Precisely because the terrorists struck us first, President Bush has invoked a doctrine of preemption that is in this country's best interest.
Sen. Kerry would wait until an attack is "imminent" before acting to repel it. The problem with this strategy is that waiting until an attack is imminent probably would be too late to stop it. Dangerous delays could ensue while Kerry consults vacillating "allies" and the United Nations.
Kerry has no credibility when he promises to build alliances. He has claimed to have spoken with "European leaders" who want him to win the election, but he has failed to name a single one and none have come forward. According to The Washington Times, at least some of those diplomats with whom he claims to have met say they never met with him. War is too serious to be left to someone who regards it as just another political issue to be massaged.
On the social issues, Kerry opposes the death penalty for people convicted of capital crimes but favors the death penalty for the innocent unborn. He says he respects the teachings of his Catholic faith on this matter but disagrees with them. How can one respect a position with which he is in contention? It also places the state above God in the most fundamental right one can ever have: the right to be born.
One searches in vain for any issue in which Kerry's Catholicism trumps the catechism of the Democratic Party. His recent quotation of Scripture is out of context in that its instructions to help the poor, for example, are primarily directed toward individuals, not government. Such help is for the purpose of redemption of the whole person.
Kerry's economic positions are familiar Democrat doctrine: take more money from the productive and give it to the less productive.
President Bush supports school choice. John Kerry follows the doctrines of the teachers unions, which want to maintain their monopoly on the minds and spirits of children. Competition works in virtually every area of life, but Sen. Kerry opposes competition in education, no matter how many children the system fails.
Everyone agrees that Social Security cannot go on like this. President Bush would allow younger workers to invest a small portion of their Social Security taxes in private, interest-bearing accounts so they have real money when they retire. It's all about who can best decide your future government or you.
The next four years will present more formidable challenges than the last four. President Bush has demonstrated his resolve to stand against those who would destroy us and damage our way of life.
All wartime presidents make mistakes and President Bush has made some, but on the issue of understanding evil and doing what must be done to resist and repel it, this president sees things more clearly than his opponent. It is why George W. Bush should be given four more years as president of the United States.
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Anybody who has read Richard Miniter's book "Shadow War" knows that, as far as the War on Yerror goes, Bush "gets it" and Kerry doesn't.
Whoops- Terror
Osama finally comes out from his cave Outer Mongolia with his political endorsement. That boring speech had so many Michael Mooreon quotes, he must be getting the Old York Times delivered?? Yawn said that he had world leaders who were hoping that he would become President and now we know who he was talking about. Since he could have easily captured this murderer, he must have been in constant communication. After all, Yaawn Cut & Run Kerry is the most brilliant Armchair General and Monday Morning QB in the Country. Komrade Kerry knows everything about everything, just ask him a veritable Cliff Claven.
The first moment that Yaawn hears about Osama bin Hidin threatening the United States election and its people what is Yaawns response? Does he state we are unified in defeating this animal? No, he piles on the military, America and the President to score the cheapest of political points. This fits him like a T, he hates the military, America and the President with every vote he has cast or speech given. In unscripted moments, the true John Kerry comes out, the one we saw in 1971, he says that the military failed to catch Osama. Fact is, if Kerry, Clinton or Gore were presidents we would not have even been in Afghanistan. They all said that it was going to be another Vietnam and none of them had the spine to attack a sovereign country. So Osama would still be in his compounds outside of Kabul training terrorists for the next American attack.
We have the countrys most vile enemy attacking our President and our people and what is the first thing out of his mouth. I would have captured or killed Osama! What a piece of garbage to make an empty statement when this terrorist is threatening our women and children. First, track records for Rat CICs in war is very weak, but assuming he would have let the dogs loose and he ever got to the point our troops got to in Tora Bora, how you going to smoke him out? This is the most inaccessible land in the world. 20,000 foot mountains in the roadless areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan, tell us how YOU would catch him Yaawn??
Comrade Kerry is always the first to criticize our troops, but he never tells us exactly what he can do better. Our main mistake in Tora Bora was we became too sensitive to the terrorists and gave them a cease fire to surrender which is when they escaped. That is what Comrade Kerry would do in Iraq and is why Osama endorsed him. He is tired of raising goats in Outer Mongolia. He wants back in the game like when BJ clinton was treating him like a nuisance and is pining for a Kerry return to those days.
He misses the days when he could blow up or murder Americans at will and we would treat it like a police action. Threaten to hunt them down and kill them anywhere, any time yada, yada, yada and then wait for the next attack. He misses the days when the military option was not an option and our military was a meals-on-wheels brigade and no threat to Osama. Yeah, he is hoping and praying that Comrade Kerry will get elected and bring back the good ol days for terrorism when American blood flowed freely in the streets.
George W Bush changed all that! He told the military to sick-um and they did. Now terrorists are either dead or hiding for fear of their lives. Osama has not been able to attack this country once and is losing dozens of men a day. He knows that after GW is elected he is a dead man. He knows that the military is the finest and brightest military in the history of the world. He knows that GW will let the military adapt and destroy with an efficiency that he cannot match. He knows that his only chance of survival now is to get Yaawn elected. He knows that if President Bush is elected he will end up on the Ash Heap of History. Lets pray America figures out what Osama has.
So in desperation he gives a rambling, long winded monotone speech that was laced heavily with attacks on the President and our military with wild claims from Michael Moore to fire-up his base. Pretty much a Yaawn Cut & Run stump speech who is now his number one fan so Blood will run once again in Americas streets.
Pray for W and Our Election
Sen Kerry will abandon Israel in order to "win friends & gain influence" at the UN.
Perhaps kids and many of us today do not have a realistic world view because we haven't been told the truth about the past. I've been reading an old 1917 history of the United States originally published for school children. It contains an amazing amount of violence. For example, someone who had read this 1917 history for schoolchildren would not be so shocked by the recent beheadings in Iraq, because this book contains accounts of many worse incidents. I think most of this violence has been sanitized out of the curriculum of today.
Something Rush said recently really stuck with me.
Talking about the al Qaqaa story, Rush said (paraphrasing) : "Kerry thinks our troops are so dumb that they don't know what to do when they find munitions unless Bush calls up and tells them."
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