Posted on 05/10/2004 7:45:00 AM PDT by robowombat
Sen. Lautenberg: Patriot or fifth columnist? Addison Ross BrookesNews.Com Monday 3 May 2004
Last week Frank Lautenberg took to the floor of the Senate and launched a vicious and insulting attack on President Bush and some of his advisers. Even though Lautenberg's deliver was flat and lifeless, as if he was reluctantly reading from a script ? which I think he was ? the attack was still as unprecedented as it was dishonest.
That Lautenberg called a man who flew F102s a "chicken hawk" is the sort of vile abuse one has come to expect from a political party that has lost any sense of dignity or decency. That he also chose to lie in order to support his base accusations is something else that would not cause any fair-minded observer any surprise.
But what is truly vile about Lautenberg's calculated assault on the integrity of the Bush administration is that it gave aid and comfort to terrorists who as he spoke were doing their damnedest to kill as many American troops as possible.
Lautenberg knowingly lied when he accused President Bush and his advisers of attacking Kerrey's Vietnam War record. As he well knows, questions about Kerry's combat record are being raised by other vets, not the administration.
What is really bugging Lautenberg is that Kerry's bragging about Vietnam has drawn attention to the fact that on his return home he not only actively supported the communist conquest of the South Vietnam he also slandered American troops as mass murderers, rapists, torturers and sadists. If he didn't betray his country he certainly betrayed his comrades in arms.
Now this is the Kerry record that Lautenberg and his fellow travelling Dems are so desperate to keep under wraps. To bring it into the light of day would not only reveal Kerry's anti-American side but also their own complicity in the destruction of South Vietnam.
To mistake Lautenberg's defense of Kerry as a case of party loyalty would be a grave error. Lautenberg's voting record reveals him to be every bit as extreme and as contemptuous of the US as Kerry.
The same man who took to the Senate floor to excoriate the President voted in 1988 to restrict foreign covert operations by the CIA. Boy oh boy, did the likes of bin Laden, Saddam and the terrorist-loving mullahs of Tehran love that one. Just as they loved his 1989 vote against a bill introduced by Arlen Specter to impose the death penalty on terrorists who murder American citizens in foreign countries.
In February 1991 Lautenberg demonstrated just how seriously he takes the threat of terrorism by voting to rescind the death penalty for terrorists who murder Americans.
Just to show how much he values the American people's security, he also voted in 1992 to cut the nation's intelligence budget by $1 billion. The next year terrorists tried to blow up the World Trade Center.
On hearing of the attack Lautenberg immediately called for a massive increase in funding for the CIA and a resumption of covert operations to wipe out these murderous thugs.
Just kidding, folks. Lautenberg carried on in his well established routine of voting against the national interest, which included keeping terrorists alive.
In 1991 he voted to against the use of force to evict Saddam from Kuwait, as did Kerry. He justified his support for Saddam on the grounds that war would cause tens of thousands of American casualties, bring about the draft ? which the Castro-loving Charlie Rangel wants anyway ? and literally destroy Kuwait instead of liberating it. In the same year Lautenberg supported an amendment that would have slashed defense spending by $80 billion.
If he and Kerry had had their way on defense the US would not have been able to drive Saddam out of Florida if he had invaded it, let alone Kuwait.
Don't get the idea that because Lautenberg wants to gut America's defenses that he believes in tax cuts. Not a bit of it. This leftwing multi-millionaire has never seen a tax cut he liked. To him the road to paradise lies in ever increasing taxation, at least for the little people, which makes me wonder about his own taxes.
There is nothing new in Lautenberg's anti-defense stand. Back in 1984 ? when Reagan was struggling against the Dems to win the Cold War ? Lautenberg voted for Ted Kennedy's "nuclear freeze" proposal. A proposal, incidentally, that was fully endorsed by Soviet front organisations.
It was only because Reagan ignored the likes of Lautenberg and Kennedy that the Cold War was won and the Soviet Empire dissolved.
Lautenberg wasn't alone in his vicious attack on the Bush administration. There was Tom Harkin sounding like a broken record with his chant of "chicken hawk". And that reminds: Harkin is the same guy who supported the Marxist-Leninist Sandinistas efforts to turn Nicaragua into a Central American gulag, complete with secret police, torture chambers, labor camps, firing squads. You know, the usual paraphernalia of a socialist state.
So next time a Democrat sounds off about his patriotism and Republican "chicken hawks" remind the moron of just how patriotic some of his party's senators really are.
More like, a couple years away from wearing depends and wearing a bib to catch his drool from the effects of his his mental disease: Liberalism.
How the people of N.J. put this guy in office is mind boggling
I wish to weigh this judiciously for five more nanoseconds and then I'll make my decision.
Did we REALLY need to ask??? This would seem more obvious than the bias of Helen Thomas...
His 2nd amendment record alone shows that.
As an aside, this is the exact same argument of the only human in New Jersey more evil than LautenCadaver: "Ethics" Professor Singer of Princeton University.
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