Backing Dean guarantees a Bush victory (must read)

The Daily Northwestern ^ | 1/6/04 | Nadir Hassan

[Valin]

I want Howard Dean to be the Democratic nominee for President despite the fact that his intellect is the size of a single in the Foster-Walker Complex.

If he gets the nomination, George W. Bush is going to launch a major can of whoop-ass, the likes of which have never been seen before in any election. It will make the 99 percent landslide "victories" of dictators around the world look like closely fought contests.

Many ask why I have a dog in this fight. After all I'm a Pakistani with no interest in the debates over Medicare and school vouchers. I'd rather go to class than read about campaign finance reform.

To put it simply, American politics bore me.

I do, however, care deeply about my country. At the risk of sounding like a peace activist -- which I most certainly am not, at least not in the NOWAR tradition -- I also care about the freedom and well-being of the global community. And right now, Dubya is the only person capable of doing that.

Ideally, Muslims wouldn't need Bush to do their dirty work for them. They would repudiate all forms of terrorism, reform their own dirty political systems and realize that women should be treated as human beings, not cattle. But since they're not up to the task Bush is the next best alternative.

In the last 28 months he has managed to bomb Afghanistan into modernity and rid them of the Taliban, who subscribed to the "women-as-cattle" philosophy mentioned above. He has also managed to free the Iraqis from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, who came up with the novel idea of mass murder as a solution to overpopulation. He got the spineless President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan to develop a backbone and renounce his previous support for terrorism.

Howard Dean, showing himself to be the moral vacuum he undoubtedly is, said "I suppose it's a good thing" upon hearing of Saddam's forced removal. This is why he does not have a chance in hell against Bush. The American people must realize the importance of freedom and not give Dean the chance to fiddle while the Muslim world burns.

I feel like puking with disgust whenever I see a "no war" sign painted on The Rock. Liberals need to realize it is only at gunpoint that extremist Muslims will learn that anti-Semitism is not a lifestyle choice, and suicide bombings will not result in a Palestinian state. You control mass murderers with war, not resolutions and court orders.

When I visited my ancestral homeland of Afghanistan last year, I felt safe in the knowledge that I would not be incarcerated for being a beardless, non-praying, T-shirt-and-jean-wearing individual. That freedom was exhilarating. It was a freedom no one in the country enjoyed until Bush came dashing in like the Texas sheriff he is so often portrayed as being.

Which is why I urge College Republicans -- all five of them -- to rally behind Dean during the primary season.

And then come November and Bush's landslide victory, I will feel safer and freer.

Nadir Hassan is a Medill sophomore. He can be reached at n-hassan@northwestern.edu.

[JohnGalt]

From the FreeRepublic.com homepage:

We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America

The author of the article states boldly that he does not care about socialism at home; typically we put a barf alert next to such articles on this thread, but then it looks like a fair number of FR posters are all to willing to trade liberty at home for the promise of ever lasting peace tomorrow.

[tbpiper]

I have seen you do significantly better.

Thanks, but you're not worth much more effort than that.

[MacDorcha]

what does that have to do with you being wrong about the guy's lineage?

[JohnGalt]

It's not your fault, you were probably schooled in a gubmint education camp err--public school.

This is a conservative web site though so at least bother to learn the arguments.

[JohnGalt]

Where was I wrong? I am not sure I made any claim about his lineage, other than to point out what a phonycon he was as a writer.

[JohnGalt]

But you were the one who bothered to respond to me, so that excuse falls rather flat, don't you think?

Really, just ignore me and go on to a thread about the liberal media or the Clintons.

[Valin]

The author of the article states boldly that he does not care about socialism at home

Where?

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I wouldn't waste much more time on John is I were you. He appears to be off his medication.

[JohnGalt]

"After all I'm a Pakistani with no interest in the debates over Medicare and school vouchers. I'd rather go to class than read about campaign finance reform. "


And here I thought CFR was a common issue between you and I...looks like the world policeman thing ranks a little higher with you, no?

[BallandPowder]

Powder..patch..Ball FIRE!

Then again, you don't let ignorance get in the way too often...

BWWWAHHHAAHHAHHAAAAAAAAHAAAA!!! Spewed all over my monitor on that one....

[Aquinasfan]

It's wishful thinking to believe that Nadir speaks for his countrymen, since he appears to have been born here,

When I visited my ancestral homeland of Afghanistan last year

..or at least to have lived here for a long time, since he uses American idioms so well:

In the last 28 months he has managed to bomb Afghanistan into modernity

[dighton]

This is a conservative web site though so at least bother to learn the arguments.

MacDorcha, don't worry about this guy. Galt struts around like he's Pope here, but few take him seriously.

[JohnGalt]

Sober at work, indeed.

[tbpiper]

don't you think

no

just ignore me and go on

kind a gits to ya, dudn it?

[irgbar-man]

This multinational sophomore guy can write a little bit. We should invite him to come & play over here.

[Redleg Duke]

Same old JohnGault. He hates anything that doesn't smear the President.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[JohnGalt]

No, not really. Family and friends provide all the attention I need; political forums are about trench warfare and the exchange of ideas. Blindly ignoring the socialist apology the author made, its simply to galling for a type like myself not to throw a bomb and watch the spin doctors come out.

I do my darndest to respond to everyone who posts to me so that the ideological black and white types who showed up on this site last March to cheer on the Armageddon realize that there is an actual debate here and maybe they should read a book and turn off the soft porn magnate's news program.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Sober at work, indeed.

Then.....Is this you at play?

[JohnGalt]

Galt, and I am a supporter of the President. I believe he is a good, moral man who can be reasoned with.

It's the phonycons who care more about their global democratic revolution than freedom at home that I, in your parlance, smear.