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Dulles, Virginia – Next month, the United States will have the distinction of having joined the elite club of countries like Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka whose elections are scrutinized and critiqued by international election monitors. It is a national disgrace that is openly advocated by leftist activists and a group of congressional Democrats. After UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan turned down a request from ten Democrat Congressmen to send poll watchers (he said the petition had to originate with the executive branch of government) the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) gleefully accepted a similar invitation channeled through...

The BBC reports that the commander of U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti is complaining that remarks by John Kerry have contributed to the recent upsurge in violence there. Kerry has said that he would have sent American troops to protect Jean-Bertrand Aristide who was ousted from power in February. The U.N. commander, Augusto Helena of Brazil, contends that Kerry's words in support of Aristide, coupled with the viabililty of Kerry's candidacy, have offered "hope" to Aristide's supporters, thus helping to spark violence in areas loyal to the ousted tyrant.

“Franklin now had Vergennes’s (the French foreign minister) blessing to negotiate directly and alone with England. Paradoxically, Vergennes had no qualms about letting Franklin do this because he full expected that the Americans would adhere to the instructions from Congress and consult with France every step of the way. He could assume, therefore, that France would hold some veto power over the outcome. He was not a little angry when, at the end, he found out that he had been deliberately and decisively outmaneuvered by Franklin, Jay, and Adams.” “The Long Fuse” by Don Cook, page 365. An example of...

Dear Senator kerry: At yesterday's meeting of the Lagniappe Wednesday Club at Daryl's Bait Shop, I and Jack Boudreau and Armen Yazoo were deputized to send you one more letter concerning your campaign. We are asking you to clarify some matters that have struck us as being untidy as an old boot in a pot of crawfish gumbo. We are still waiting for you personally to take on the task of answering the charges of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. These are serious matters and they won't go away, leastaways not from the minds of average people like us...

Andrew Sullivan feels justified in saying, "I told you so". In the Daily Dish, he says: Now, Bremer: The main criticisms this blog has directed at the conduct of the war have been the insufficient troop numbers and allowing the looting and disorder to spread after the liberation. Now comes Jerry Bremer to say exactly the same thing:"We paid a big price for not stopping it because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness. We never had enough troops on the ground."That's a big admission. Why doesn't Edwards bring that up directly tonight with Cheney? And since it was so obvious...

PRESIDENT BUSH has already managed to lose the second debate with John Kerry -- the high-stakes argument over what happened in the first debate. Dick Cheney can halt the slide tonight, and Bush himself can just as easily reverse it in St. Louis on Friday, but the steeper hill they face is one of their own making. The Bush campaign put all of its post-Coral Gables eggs in one basket, called the Kerry Doctrine -- a made-up, cartoon version of the senator's foreign policy views. By contrast, Kerry was able to keep the debate going about credibility in the wars...

John Kerry's descent into incoherence continued yesterday as the Senator defended his "global test" for defending America. Aside from foreign leaders, Kerry alluded to others who might need to approve American action to defend ourselves, including -- as best we can tell -- other planets. Here's Kerry's defending his "global test": But I can do a better job of protecting America's security because the test that I was talking about was a test of legitimacy, not just in the globe, but elsewhere. Elsewhere?

WITH BRAINS LIKE THIS, HOW WILL HE PASS THE 'GLOBAL TEST'? [10/05 02:30 PM] The Washington Times passes on a bit from Knight-Ridder: Knight Ridder reporter Tom Fitzgerald, covering Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign, filed this tidbit Sunday from a campaign stop in Ohio: "At one point, Kerry seemed a little irony-challenged. He greeted a young man in a 'Titanic Swim Team' T-shirt and asked what events he swam. The embarrassed kid said he was actually on his high school track team. 'So you stole the shirt?' Kerry joked. 'I thought you were on the swim team. You faked me...

Even for Democrats, they have reached a new low. They are, to the astonighment of my eyes, DENYING that Kerry ever mentioned "Global Test". Yup, that's right. In their ad, they cut it out of the quote, and when asked on talk shows about "Global Test", they do not respond but only say "the Senator affirmed the right to preemption". Unbelievable, even for the Democrats -- I'm serious! I'm used to spin and scare tactics, but I've never seen outright denials in the face of facts that were seen by the ENTIRE COUNTRY. It is reminiscent of the Iraqi Minister...

HAMPTON, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Sen. John Kerry on Monday lambasted as "pathetic" scaremongering, Republican criticism of his comments during last Thursday's debate in which he said the president's decision to go to war should pass a "global test" of legitimacy. Asked during a town hall meeting in Hampton to explain what he meant, the Massachusetts senator said, "It's almost sad; it's certainly pathetic, because all they can do is grab a little phrase and try to play a game and scare Americans." "And if they were honest enough to give America the full quote, which America heard, they would...

The Global Test If you watched the debate, you heard it. Presidential candidate John Kerry said before he would take preemptive military action to defend American, the action would have to first pass the "global test" Read about it here. Before I comment on Kerry's statement in the above news report, I would like to point out another report that Reuters posted as related. Evidently, whoever becomes the next President will have the opportunity to change the balance of power on the United States Supreme Court Read about it here. As I thought about these two reports, I realized the...

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 President Bush: "I will never submit America's national security to an international test. The use of troops to defend America must never be subject to a veto by countries like France. The president's job is not to take an international poll. The president's job is to defend America."   This is an email-able, copyright-ready cartoon you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

The Constitution gives the power of pre-emptive strike (an act of War) to the Congress without regard to obtaining a global concensus. Would John Kerry's Global Test cause a Constitutional Crisis? I submit that the very reason that the founding fathers created the Constitution was specifically so no foreign influence would impede our right to self preservation. In the case of Iraq the Congress voted overwhelmingly to give the President Pre-emptive strike authority, including a Yea vote from Senator John Kerry. You cannot nuance your vote the time for debating the vote is when it is cast on the senate...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 2 -- President Bush said Saturday that under a "Kerry Doctrine," Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry would require permission of foreign powers before launching military action. The inflammatory charge, leveled here by Bush and in a new campaign commercial, was immediately denied by Kerry's advisers. The accusation is based on a partial reading of Kerry's remark in Thursday's debate that he would have a "global test" to prove the legitimacy of U.S. military action; Kerry also said that he would reserve "the right to preempt in any way necessary to protect the United States." Kerry "said...

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UN officials are investigating a video showing Palestinians loading suspicious, elongated objects into UN ambulances after Israel released the images and accused UN personnel of collaborating with the terrorists: UN officials said Saturday they are investigating a claim by the Israeli military that Palestinian terrorists transported a rocket in a vehicle with UN markings, but accused Israel of having made false allegations in the past. On Friday, the IDF released video footage taken from an unmanned aircraft, or drone, flying over the Jebalya refugee camp. The blurred black-and-white video showed three men walking toward the U.N. vehicle, including one who...