Posted on 10/01/2004 5:26:06 AM PDT by ArGee
To the editor:
I watched much of the debate on September 30th and was surprised at the lack of knowledge Senator Kerry demonstrated with some of his comments. Specifically:
Senator Kerry implied that the War on Terror is a War on Osama. The Senator should know that killing the leader is not the way to defeat an enemy. Senator Kerry's focus on capturing or killing Osama bin Laden indicates he still thinks of this as a criminal pursuit rather than a war. The correct way to defeat a multinational group like Al Qaeda is to make it impossible for the group to find sanctuary, not to kill one member. President Bush is following that strategy with positive results.
Senator Kerry said there was no link between Al Qaeda and Iraq. The 9/11 Commission report detailed numerous links between Al Qaeda and Iraq. The Commission did not find a link between Al Qaeda and the attack of September 11, 2001, but the links between Al Qaeda and Iraq were clear. They are even more clear today as Al Qaeda fights to keep Iraq from becoming a democratic country. President Bush recognized the importance of that link and the importance of removing Iraq as a supporter of our enemy.
Senator Kerry said that sanctions and UN weapons inspectors were keeping Saddam Hussein from becoming strong. That is so wrong it is frightening. Everyone knows that Hussein was playing the weapons inspectors for fools and was stealing money from the Oil for Food program to support his military goals. International diplomacy had been failing to subdue Hussein for 12 years. President Bush recognized the failure of international diplomacy and rallied a military coalition to do the job that diplomacy had failed to accomplish.
Finally, Senator Kerry suggested that we derail Iran's nuclear ambitions by offering to give them reactor fuel if they promise to shut down their nuclear program. This is exactly what President Clinton did with North Korea. Even Senator Kerry was decrying the disastrous results of that policy. North Korea took our fuel and developed nuclear weapons anyway. President Bush is maintaining international pressure on Iran even as he attempts to surround Iran with free Muslim nations. The future will tell if this strategy works, unless Senator Kerry is allowed to return to a failed approach.
These four areas demonstrate a thorough misunderstanding of the current international situation. Since foreign policy is the primary responsibility of the President, we can not afford to elect Senator Kerry to that office.
Sincerely,
Shalom.
"The Senator should know that killing a leader is not the way to defeat an enemy".
For many years after the Second World War there was a cottage industry of people who said that Hitler was still alive, having escaped from his bunker. If that were so would that have meant that we actually had lost the war? The notion is absurd.
***If you like any of the above, you are free to borrow it for your own letters to the editor. I hope all other FReepers who wrote will also share so we can get the truth out.
Thanks - I'll do this, and I've emailed my friends and family to do the same! Is that really true about Clinton and North Korea? I never knew that!
Your letter is great - I'll keep an eye out for it in the Patriot!
I do wish the President had focused for a couple of seconds on Kerry's obsession with killing one man. What if athe bomb we drop kills Bin Laden and we don't find the body. By Kerry's way of "thinking", the entire US military would have still been hunting for him while Saddam kept amassing billions of dollars and the sanctions disappeared.
It would show what a foolish position Kerry is advocating.
Foxnews.com has a report right now about another Al Qaeda tape that is recorded by Al Zawhairi rather than by bin Laden. I think this means that your scenario is already true. bin Laden is nothing more than DNA samples right now, otherwise he would be recording those tapes.
Perhaps the President even has strong reason to suspect bin Ladin has been reduced to tissue samples but did not want to say in case he was wrong.
Shalom.
Shalom.
He may have done that in words, but when he called the Iraq war a distraction from the WoT he was stuck with the impression that he did not believe Al Qaeda was in Iraq. If Al Qaeda was in Iraq then the WoT belonged there.
Shalom.
Your letter is fantastic and I'd love to borrow it for my own local paper here in Michigan. Small town. But is it "legal" to do such a thing. If so, I'm on it!!
You are kind. I wrote it from my own mind without referring to any notes. I fully and legally "own" that letter. As such I have the right to grant you the permission, which I hereby grant.
You are welcome to use it 'as is' if you like. However, experience shows that the letter will be better if you read it over, then express the sentiments in your own words in your own way. That way if someone who knows you reads the letter they won't say "That doesn't sound like her."
Either way, you have my permission. Use it to good effect.
Shalom.
But I will be looking for it.
Thank you! On very rare occasions I've had my longer letters included as an op-ed piece (in Houston). We'll see.
They have my permission to excerpt it.
Shalom.
I'll let you know if I hear more.
Shalom.
Thanks for the heads-up. They printed one of mine yesterday, but it was from way back when the 527 controversy was making news. I wonder if now they won't print anything I send them for the rest of October - I hate to have wasted my opinion on old news...
Can it?
Shalom.
why do they call to verify? did they not believe you?
I've worked for a magazine, but never a newspaper.
I suspect they wanted to be sure nobody had submitted a letter under my name to harm me in some way. You can spoof a return address either in a letter or in email.
They may have also wanted to verify the letter as mine rather than something the RNC had given me to send.
Covering their bases I suspect.
Shalom.
Don't you mean IRAQ and 9/11?
Yep. Sorry. Iraq and Al Qaeda are very close to each other on the keyboard, dontchaknow.
;)
Thanks,
Shalom.
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