CBC RADIO COMMENTARY: Canadian Salim Mansur says Kerry election win would spell victory for terror

CBC Commentary ^ | October 8, 2004 | Salim Mansur

[Enduring Freedom]

U.S President George Bush and his Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry will face off in their second election debate tomorrow night. But for Salim Mansur the first debate last week was enough. He's a columnist and a political scientist at the University of Western Ontario in London. On Commentary, he says a Kerry election win would spell victory for terror.

Real Audio link: Salim Mansur Audio

Transcript

Salim Mansur:

Once we get past style and engage in content analysis of last Thursday's presidential debate between George Bush and John Kerry, it becomes clear Americans will be voting on distinct alternatives presented by the two men.

Most Americans know where George Bush stands on the "war on terror." Whether they agree with him or not they have understood his consistent reasoning of why Iraq is a central front in this war. They have understood how regime change in Baghdad made America safer in the post-9/11 world. And they know the new Iraq in the making will be a model for a democratic alternative in the Middle East.

Americans were uncertain of John Kerry's views since there were so many contradictions. On Thursday he made clear the war in Iraq is a diversion from the war on terror and a "colossal error of judgment."

It can then be inferred Kerry will hasten American withdrawal from Iraq. Such an inference would be entirely in keeping with Kerry's political instinct, his lesson brought home from Vietnam with the question he posed for the commander in chief: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

Democrats nominating Kerry convinced themselves the war in Iraq is wrong and unwinnable. Kerry now has indicated unambiguously his views on Iraq are consistent with his belief America cannot and must not engage militarily abroad unless it is part of as broad a coalition of interests that meets "the global test."

In other words, while Kerry accused Bush of out-sourcing America's war on terror in Afghanistan to Afghan warlords, he will out-source America's foreign policy to the United Nations that is up to its neck in the oil-for-food scandal in Iraq, and has shown its ineptness from Rwanda through the Balkans and Somalia to the tragedy unfolding in Darfur.

But in Iraq where America's reputation has been staked out in the fight for the defence of freedom and democracy, as it once was in the Korean peninsula and in Indo-China, a Kerry presidency will mean conceding victory to Islamists and their fundamentalist sponsors.

An American withdrawal before a new Iraq secures its future (however such a withdrawal is disguised) will plunge the area into hopelessness for another generation. The region will remain stuck in the same hopelessness as Saddam's Iraq represented. It will mean abandonning the region to decrepit dictators and monarchs who will deny their people the 21st century.

For Commentary, I'm Salim Mansur in London (Canada).

[buffyt]

Neat Profile Page!

[Grampa Dave]

If Kerry gets elected we can kiss our families, friends and America goodbye.

[Grampa Dave]

FYI and ping lists.

If Kerry is elected, we can kiss our families, friends and American goodbye.

[Enduring Freedom]

"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of Liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."

~Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ALCU.

[nutmeg]

Thanks for the heads up, Grampa... will ping the 'posse'!

[nutmeg]

ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, we need to get these disclosures out to the Possee Freepers, and they need to get them out to their email lists.

[MizSterious]

This is a great column. Thank you for posting it here. It's so good to hear sanity from a Canadian columnist--more often they seem to be Michael Moore retreads.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Like I've said before, not all Canadians hate America, even those in the media, this just confirms I'm correct in that observation. There's even a nationwide talk show host who has a program on the weekends that I listen to quite frequently, Peter Warren, out of Vancouver, who will cut off any caller on his radio show that seeks to denigrate America and President Bush and scold that caller after he's cut them off the air. He even said that he agreed with the Defence Minister of Canada that there are morons in Washington, DC, but Peter Warren said they weren't in the Republican party.

[MizSterious]

"It is hard to believe nearly half of the voters in the United States would vote for such an empty suit as John Kerry."

This is what I find most disturbing about this election. This tells me how huge a percentage of citizens are either stupid, clueless, or completely dishonest. Or all three. What's happened to this country?

[MeekOneGOP]

Democrats nominating Kerry convinced themselves the war in Iraq is wrong and unwinnable. Kerry now has indicated unambiguously his views on Iraq are consistent with his belief America cannot and must not engage militarily abroad unless it is part of as broad a coalition of interests that meets "the global test."

In other words, while Kerry accused Bush of out-sourcing America's war on terror in Afghanistan to Afghan warlords, he will out-source America's foreign policy to the United Nations that is up to its neck in the oil-for-food scandal in Iraq, and has shown its ineptness from Rwanda through the Balkans and Somalia to the tragedy unfolding in Darfur.

But in Iraq where America's reputation has been staked out in the fight for the defence of freedom and democracy, as it once was in the Korean peninsula and in Indo-China, a Kerry presidency will mean conceding victory to Islamists and their fundamentalist sponsors.

Turn your speakers up, then
click here or on the pic, lol !

[BigSkyFreeper]

They're called Kool-Aid drinkers. Sure, Bush's base is comprised of hardcore Republicans, yet by the same token, it's also comprised of voters who know what's at stake and have prioritized their decision thusly. Sure, taxes, education, and all those other token issues are important, but one will not have the others if they put "national security" and "defeating terrorism" above all else. Kerry is simply the "anyone but Bush" candidate, otherwise, there's no reason for him to run in the first place.

[Happy2BMe]

'Democrats nominating Kerry convinced themselves the war in Iraq is wrong and unwinnable. Kerry now has indicated unambiguously his views on Iraq are consistent with his belief America cannot and must not engage militarily abroad unless it is part of as broad a coalition of interests that meets "the global test.'

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[Happy2BMe]

Outsourcing Our Foreign Policy - ping.

(Kerry, if elected.)

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'In other words, while Kerry accused Bush of out-sourcing America's war on terror in Afghanistan to Afghan warlords, he will out-source America's foreign policy to the United Nations that is up to its neck in the oil-for-food scandal in Iraq, and has shown its ineptness from Rwanda through the Balkans and Somalia to the tragedy unfolding in Darfur.'

[christie]

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Kerry had once supported removing Saddam Hussein from power but now "says it was all a mistake."

They connected the dots in 1998 but Senator Kerry and MSM can't seem to connect the dots in 2004.

Here is an easy to read chart of what the media was saying pre-911 (and after): Connect the Dots...Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

Lots of facts and quotes about the president-wannabe at the John F. Kerry Timeline.
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[SandRat]

...Kerry accused Bush of out-sourcing America's war on terror in Afghanistan to Afghan warlords, he will out-source America's foreign policy to the United Nations that is up to its neck in the oil-for-food scandal in Iraq, and has shown its ineptness from Rwanda through the Balkans and Somalia to the tragedy unfolding in Darfur.

Brilliant lines GW should use them in Phoenix.

[VOA]

CBC RADIO COMMENTARY: Canadian Salim Mansur says Kerry election win would spell victory for terror

Just like the Clinton years...
we have to go beyond our borders to find sanity in the media.

[DoctorMichael]

Neat Profile Page!

Thanks! I got REALLY PO'ed by the actions of the esteemed Sandy Berger stuffing classified Clinton-era papers down his pants and leaving with them a few months back. I got a 36 hour 'timeout' for using a 'wirty derd' claiming Berger inserted male genitals into his oral orifice.

Thank God for little favors! {**LOL**} It gave me time to work on my Homepage.

[HawaiianGecko]

Very well said! Now if you could hammer it into the size of a bumper sticker we might be able to change the mind of a few million of the "instant morons" created by Dean and Kerry.

[ApesForEvolution]

BFL bump for later