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[Grampa Dave]

Good for Amy! One can only hope that she is one of millions who have had their eyes and hearts opened after 9/11/01.

[JohnGalt]

"It's a tradition of leadership that began with Washington and Lincoln, continued with FDR, and has been resurrected by Bush."

Leave it to a Democrat phony to put Washington in such lesser company.

[KantianBurke]

Already posted:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1048402/posts

[ken5050]

Obviously, she's read Zell's book.......seriously, methinks a lot of Dems..the Reagan Dems, as they were once called..are gonna think the same way when they get into the voting booth...and imagine if, say, before the election we turn up OBL and/or the WMD....

[Grampa Dave]

This is so incredible! This comes from a lifelong democrat. Compare what she has to say versus the third party phonies on FR who bash our president 24/7/365 for what he is doing for Americans:


"But then Sept. 11 happened. Our nation needed the strength of a leader, and I wondered where we'd find one.

It wasn't until the president stood with firefighters and rescue workers at ground zero that I began to wonder if perhaps I'd misjudged him. Previously wooden while delivering prepared speeches, the man who shouted into the bullhorn from where the World Trade Center had stood demanded to be heard. And I listened - the whole world listened.

I began to hope that our country finally had a leader who'd have the moral fortitude to say to our enemies around the world: Enough.

For nearly 25 years, America has been under attack by Muslim fundamentalists - attacks virtually unanswered by all presidents as far back as Jimmy Carter.

We've somehow confused the systematic massacre of Americans for random acts of violence, though the collective onslaught - catalogued even incompletely - seems in retrospect to be a clear declaration of war:

• 1979 - The US Embassy in Iran was overrun by Islamic extremists who captured 66 Americans and held 53 of them for 444 days.

• 1983 - The US Embassy in Beirut was targeted by a truck bomb that killed 63.

• 1983 - The US Marine barracks in Beirut was destroyed by a truck bomb that killed 242 Americans.

• 1988 - US Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins, on a UN mission in Lebanon, was abducted, tortured, and hanged.

• 1988 - A bomb on Pan Am Flight 103 went off over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 on board and 11 people on the ground.

• 1993 - Terrorists drove an explosives-laden truck into the basement of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six.

• 1993 - Followers of Osama bin Laden killed 18 American soldiers in an ambush on the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia.

• 1996 - The Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia was destroyed by a tanker-truck bomb killing 19 Americans.

• 1998 - US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were simultaneously attacked by truck bombs killing 301.

• 2000 - The USS Cole was attacked in the port city of Yemen; 17 died.

Halfhearted rescue attempts, trade embargoes, and a smattering of cruise missiles thrown at the problem by former leaders had no follow-through, no long-term commitment necessary to stave off the continued systematic attacks. Not until George Bush vowed to protect the US from those who sought to destroy it - even if he had to stand without the support of UN allies.

I can't rely on the contenders from my own party to follow Bush's course. Only three of the nine running in Democratic primaries are viable candidates, and none is willing to risk political comfort to pledge a presidency to the messy business of routing terrorists and their sponsor nations. Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, and John Kerry are now all against the war in Iraq, though both General Clark and Senator Kerry supported it once, and may again.

[Joe Boucher]

Gotta believe that the soccer moms will vote for their families security and that ain't with the Dean idiot.

[The_Victor]

Good for Amy. Now apply the lesson learned about GWB and his portrayal by the left and their accomplices in the media to the rest of the Republican/conservatives.

[RoseofTexas]

WOW!! What can I say? Another RAT has finally SEEN the light! God bless W and may he have FOUR MORE YEARS under his belt!! Oh, and while I'm at it may God curse the beast from NYork and the rapist with boils!!

[alnick]

For nearly 25 years, America has been under attack by Muslim fundamentalists - attacks virtually unanswered by all presidents as far back as Jimmy Carter.

We've somehow confused the systematic massacre of Americans for random acts of violence, though the collective onslaught - catalogued even incompletely - seems in retrospect to be a clear declaration of war.

This is why I believe that the 2004 presidential election will be a bloodbath for the democrats. They will not know what hit them. There are a whole lot of registered voters who have voted democrat all of their lives who recognize what this democrat says here. They get it.

[thoughtomator]

LMAO... she doesn't consider Lieberman, who very nearly became Vice President of the United States merely a few years ago, to be a 'viable' candidate, yet Wes Clark and John F****** Kerry are?

Is this a confession, that the Democratic Party is thoroughly anti-semitic?

[ladyinred]

Bush isn't timid about disappointing a nation used to instant gratification.

This pretty much says it. He is going against political pundits, his own party, and the world at times to do what is best for this country. I can only hope the American people can see past the lies of the left and some of the "right"to see that he is the leader for our times. If not, we will go back to ignoring this most dangerous threat from those who are determined to destroy us.

[Al Simmons]

*BUMPITY-BUMP*!! I have been working on a lib cousin-in-law for about 4 years now. This piece won't hurt, either.

[wotan]

I began to hope that our country finally had a leader who'd have the moral fortitude to say to our enemies around the world: Enough.

But when's he going to say "Enough!" to Mexico?

[11th_VA]

Most excellent - has anyone posted this at DU ??? LOL !!!