Democrats resorting to scare tactics to attack Bush
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The launch of the Sputnik satellite, the first manned spacecraft to orbit the earth, by the USSR in October 1957 created panic in America. How could the homeland be safe as long as Russia could violate our airspace unchallenged?
Democratic politicians vying for the presidential nomination sought to squeeze partisan gain from the people's fear. Missouri Sen. Stuart Symington, followed shortly by Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy, accused President Eisenhower of allowing Russia to pull ahead of us in ICBM production.
They declared that the Russian ICBM stock soon would surpass our own. Thus was born one of the greatest fables in modern presidential politics, the nonexistent missile gap of 1960.
It is said that there is nothing new under the sun. Florida Sen. Bob Graham, a recent entrant to the Democratic presidential field, claims to know that al-Qaida is regrouping and that President Bush has been largely unsuccessful in his strategy against the terror network.
As if on cue, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts is playing a devastating Kennedy to Graham's Symington. Meet the "terror gap."
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He was right then and he's right today. Regime change was one stated goal, and we reached that. WMD elimination was another goal and we will either find where they are hidden all throughout the country or we will find where they were sold in the six months previous to the war.
Either way, it's a better world without Saddam's rape rooms and torture rooms; the left has never met a dictator they didn't support and seemingly admire.