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Stab in the Back (Dems stabbing Bush and the US in the back in war time)
Frontpage Magazine ^ | Feb. 12, 2004 | David Horowitz

Posted on 02/12/2004 1:45:43 AM PST by FairOpinion

The fact that the President is now on the defensive over the war in Iraq is both puzzling and ominous. The Democratic attack on the credibility of the Commander-in-Chief has gone on relentlessly for more than ten months, ever since the liberation of Baghdad in April of last year. This ferocious attack would be understandable if the war had gone badly or been unjust; if Saddam Hussein had unleashed chemical weapons on the coalition armies, or had ignited an environmental disaster, or if the war had resulted in tens of thousands of coalition casualties, or become an endless quagmire, or instigated a wave of terror across the Muslim world – as its opponents predicted before it began.

But it did not. This was a good war and relatively costless as modern conflicts go. Its result was the liberation of 25 million Iraqis from a monster regime. Its cost was a third of the economic losses resulting from the 9/11 attack. Its relatively painless victory was a tremendous setback for the forces of chaos. The war destroyed a principal base of regional aggression and terror. It induced a terrorist and nuclear power, Libya, to give up its weapons of mass destruction. It induced Iran to allow inspections of its nuclear sites; it caused North Korea to consider negotiation and restraint. It induced Pakistan to give up its nuclear secrets dealer. It made the terrorist regime in Syria more reasonable and pliant. It sent a message across a dangerous world that defiance of UN resolutions and international law, when backed by the word of the United States, can mean certain destruction for outlaw regimes. In all these ways, whatever else one may say about it, George Bush’s war has struck a mighty blow for global peace.

The Democrats’ attack on the President’s war, then, is an effort – whether Democrats intend it so or not – to reverse these gains. If the President is defeated in the coming election on the issue of war and peace, as Democrats intend, his defeat will send exactly the reverse message to the world of nations. It will tell them that a new American government is prepared to go back to the delusions of pre-9/11, that it will end the war on terror and return to treating terrorists as criminals instead of enemy soldiers. Candidate John Kerry has said this in so many words. It will tell them that the United States will no longer hold governments responsible for the actions of terrorists who operate from their soil, as did Ansar al-Islam, Abu Nidal, and Abu Abbas from their bases in Iraq. Or for supporting terror, as Saddam Hussein did when he financed suicide bombers in Israel. It will send a signal that tyrants like Saddam Hussein who defy UN ultimatums are likely to be appeased – the way they were under the Clinton Administration which had the vision to stop Saddam and the Taliban but not the will to stop them with force. It will announce to the world that the American government is now reluctant to risk even a few American lives to defend international law or stand up for the freedom of those who are oppressed like the people of Iraq.

The Democrats’ personal attack on the President over the war is not only imprudent; it is also unprecedented. Never in our history has a commander-in-chief been attacked on a partisan basis for a war that went well, let alone so well. Never in human history has a leader been attacked on a partisan basis for liberating a people or inducing tyrants to give up their weapons of mass destruction. The Democrats’ attack on the President is an unprecedented partisan campaign over national security in a time of war. It is a campaign that apparently knows no limits, adopting tactics that are as unscrupulous as they are reckless. The commander-in-chief has been called a “deceiver,” a “deserter,” a “breaker of promises,” a “fraud” who “concocted” the war for personal material gain, a leader who risked innocent American lives for a “lie.” And all these accusations are made while the war continues! All these charges are made while terrorists plot to kill thousands of Americans with biological and chemical and possibly nuclear weapons! The Democrats’ campaign is a stab in the back not only of the President but of the nation he serves and which he is sworn to protect.

No one knows what the future will bring. But no one can fail to have noticed that while the commander-in-chief has carried on an aggressive war against terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, there have been no terrorist attacks on American soil. For two-and- a-half years while the commander-in-chief has waged this war that the Democrats have chosen to attack, the American people have been safe.

If the American people were now to elect a candidate who has conducted his campaign as an attack on the very war the President has fought to defend us, no one can doubt that our enemies will be encouraged and our lives will be in greater danger than before. Perhaps there have been elections with higher stakes than the one we are facing this year. But this observer can’t remember one.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2004; dnc; horowitz; saddamhandmaidens; sedition
"The Democrats’ attack on the President is an unprecedented partisan campaign over national security in a time of war. ...And all these accusations are made while the war continues! All these charges are made while terrorists plot to kill thousands of Americans with biological and chemical and possibly nuclear weapons! The Democrats’ campaign is a stab in the back not only of the President but of the nation he serves and which he is sworn to protect.

Perhaps there have been elections with higher stakes than the one we are facing this year. But this observer can’t remember one. "

1 posted on 02/12/2004 1:45:43 AM PST by FairOpinion
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To: jmstein7
Additional suggested reading:

Al Qaida Will Be Voting Democrat in November
Self | 2-2-04 | Jonathan M. Stein

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1070370/posts
2 posted on 02/12/2004 1:47:12 AM PST by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
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To: FairOpinion

3 posted on 02/12/2004 1:47:43 AM PST by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
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To: FairOpinion
Anti-war activists like Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden and John Kerry gave me the same feeling, back in the 60's and 70's, that I have today. The liberals will do anything to get their way, to include further endangering the lives of the troops and the local civilian populations in Iraq in order to get their way.

And their way simply means they want to be in power, to push their agenda on the rest of us.

Opinion are like...well you know, everyone has one, but that doesn't make it right to aggravate the war and motivate the enemy. I've been wondering for a long time what happen to America? It's the liberals, plain and simple.

4 posted on 02/12/2004 1:54:52 AM PST by Tactical
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To: FairOpinion
The Democrats will do anything to win especially if it takes rewriting history to get them back in the White House, they don't care if it hurts America in the process. For them power is their alpha and omega.
5 posted on 02/12/2004 2:52:47 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: FairOpinion
I like that picture. That should be distributed all over America!
6 posted on 02/12/2004 3:38:41 AM PST by beckysueb (Lady Liberty is in danger! Bush/Cheney 04.)
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To: FairOpinion
The dim leadership and the demented jackel press know full well what they are doing. How they can look themselves in the mirror in the morning is beyond me.
7 posted on 02/12/2004 3:43:34 AM PST by tkathy (The nihilistic islamofascists and the nihilistic liberals are trying to destroy this country)
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To: tkathy
Simple. They hate America as it exists. Many of them think "losing a war" would be "good for us". I firmly believe that many liberals pathologies are firmly based in self-hatred.
8 posted on 02/12/2004 3:49:46 AM PST by marktwain
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To: FairOpinion; All

***If you were active in the so-called "peace" movement or in the radical wing of the civil rights causes, why would you tell the truth? Why would you tell people that no, you weren't really a "peace activist," except in the sense that you were against America's war. Why would you draw attention to the fact that while you called yourselves "peace activists," you didn't oppose the Communists' war, and were gratified when America's enemies won?

What you were really against was not war at all, but American "imperialism" and American capitalism. What you truly hated was America's democracy, which you knew to be a "sham" because it was controlled by money in the end. That's why you wanted to "Bring the Troops Home," as your slogan said. Because if America's troops came home, America would lose and the Communists would win. And the progressive future would be one step closer.

But you never had the honesty-then or now-to admit that. You told the lie then to maintain your influence and increase your power to do good (as only the Chosen can). And you keep on telling the lie for the same reason.

Why would you admit that, despite your tactical support for civil rights, you weren't really committed to civil rights as Americans understand rights? What you really wanted was to overthrow the very Constitution that guaranteed those rights, based as it is on private property and the individual-both of which you despise.

It is because America is a democracy and the people endorse it, that the left's anti-American, but "progressive" agendas can only be achieved by deceiving the people. This is the cross the left has to bear: The better world is only achievable by lying to the very people they propose to redeem. ***Source

9 posted on 02/12/2004 3:50:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: marktwain
Just as the Dems think losing a war would be *good* for us, the true conservatives of the green-eye shade variety think electing an internationalist who will raise our taxes will teach the Republicans a lesson and *wake up* America to the power of these same conservaties.

If they are right, we will lose it all.
10 posted on 02/12/2004 4:25:06 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: FairOpinion
Yet many will cite immigration or the deficit as a reason to oust him because they really have no perspective of what's really at stake. They claim to be Republicans, but fall into the same foot-stomping, whiny, runny-nose rhetoric as the Democrats they claim to hate.
11 posted on 02/12/2004 4:41:12 AM PST by trebb (Ain't God good . . .)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"This is the cross the left has to bear: The better world is only achievable by lying to the very people they propose to redeem."

The "left" bears no "cross", and the "left" is not in the business of "redeeming".

The "left", quite simply, are Marxist Socialists. They seek to destroy capitalism, our way of life, and use the same age old montra of "power to the people" to convince the "poor downtrodden workers" they are being screwed by the rich.

Evidently the American society is evenly split, with half wanting cradle to grave government assistance, [the right to live off of others labors] ....
and half wishing for less government intrusion in their lives, [wishing to work, earn their station in life, and be free from governmental excesses]

Put on your seat belt, pay that tax, you must have a permit to do that, fenced in "federal land", and the beat goes on.




We are loosing that fight. Isn't propaganda a wonderful thing?

12 posted on 02/12/2004 4:49:58 AM PST by G.Mason ( A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride…Max Lerner)
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To: reformedliberal
"If they are right, we will lose it all."

Who's they?

13 posted on 02/12/2004 4:54:04 AM PST by G.Mason ( A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride…Max Lerner)
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To: FairOpinion; All
Stab in the Back? Well, take a stab at this:

Just the Facts - Economic Chart 
= ~157KB = Adobe Acrobat Doc.
[Chart Image Only; NO link here; Go To Thread]

The IBEW (Union Electricians) has this color chart showing the Federal Budget and Unemployment. There are five text boxes that 'explain' how Democrat Presidents are better. Well, happily, there was some good FR response. - Check it out!-
Union Economic Chart: Fed Budget & Unemployment Rate =(Dem Pres. are better) NEED FR Response!

14 posted on 02/12/2004 5:57:07 AM PST by Golden Gate
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To: FairOpinion
Not just Democrats.

Some GOP WHINERS too.

15 posted on 02/12/2004 6:04:09 AM PST by veronica ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people." GW Bush 1-20-04)
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To: FairOpinion
BTTT
16 posted on 02/12/2004 8:12:51 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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