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.

[tbpiper]

You do know April 15th is coming soon, don't you?

[GmbyMan]

Socialism is when the workers own the means of production. In this day and age, socialism has also come to mean when the government owns the means of production (which is really communism) but doesn't run a police state. The biggest problem that I see with with Bush is that he has been complicit in *helping* the business owners to provide them cover from making bad business moves. This is not socialism, this is soft corporatism (which I also don't like). Go ask any union boss if Bush is helping the workers control the means of production.

[ohioman]

One thing good about John Galt and idiots like him is the fact that they make up a very small minority of public opinion.

[thoughtomator]

So how do you get from Washington's farewell address to calling a Pakistani with Afghan roots a phony?

[lasereye]

If you have missed my posts about bringing the boys home from South Korea, let it be clear, I support bringing the troops home from Korea and the 106 other countries US troops are currently stationed in,

What should we have done in response to 9/11?

[Taliesan]

Great article. Bump.

[Taliesan]

You control mass murderers with war, not resolutions and court orders.

Great quote. Bump.

[FlyLow]

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

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I think there are many more than 5...but certainly less than the left-leaning majority on campus.

Great read...thanks for the post.

[Redleg Duke]

A good idea. Johnnie-boy has several personalities and none have both oars in the water on opposite sides of the boat.

[EggsAckley]

~</;o)

[JohnGalt]

And that's just for the Income Tax Celebration; we don't even bother to mark the occasion when the Social Security Administration and the Mediscam armed paper-shufflers fleece the young to pay for the slot machine habits of the Greatest Looting Generation.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

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.

The author makes no claim to being a conservative. In fact, he says American politics bore him. His claim is that he is a Pakistani with Afghan ancestry, who is thankful for what the U.S. has done in the Mid-East.

[JohnGalt]

Like any conservative would suggest, close the borders, stop letting unemployed Arab males into the country, restore an atmosphere to encourage a well-armed citizenry, de-socialize the big airlines, decentralize the government, fix the monetary situation and tar and feather, well at least fire and strip the pension, of any gubmint employee with 'national security' in their title.

*I have noticed most of the hawks simply ignore what debt financing does to the national security situation of the United States.

[JohnGalt]

Exactly; the author is not a conservative and I feel no better that he is indicating his support for Republicans.

He was thankful for the welfare handout the US taxpayers provided his homelands in the form of playing the role of world policeman.

[Valin]

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

[lasereye]

I see, we let Al Qaeda continue to have bases of operations where they could develop bio-weapons, dirty bombs, eventually maybe nukes. As long as we close the borders we'd be safe. You're a genius.

[JohnGalt]

Soft corportatism was renamed Third Way Socialism by the Blair-Clinton faction, who strangely enough borrowed the term from fascisti intellectuals of the 20s and 30s.

I'd settle for a term with less connotation, consolidationist.

[JohnGalt]

I don't brown my shorts over cave dwellers like the soccer moms.


What can I say?

[Spok]

"You control mass murderers with war, not resolutions and court orders."

A simple, obvious truth that seems to elude so many.

[JohnGalt]

His support for the Republican Party is completely phony--do you disagree?