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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: bentway who wrote (621486)9/10/2004 10:25:22 AM
From: Knight  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
I took a look, as you suggested. Upon viewing the various faces, I was comforted by the thought that the overwhelming majority of these brave men and women would strongly disagree that they died (in your words) "for no good reason." If you could survey the opinions of their immediate family members--widows, widowers, children, parents--I have little doubt that the overwhelming majority of them would also vehemently disagree that their loved ones died "for no good reason."

Furthermore, the vast majority of the both the dead and their surviving loved ones would be infuriated by the knowledge that their deaths were being exploited in order to attack the very cause for which they gave their lives. The overwhelming majority of enlisted military and their families continue to vote Republican election after election. The primary reason is that the Democratic Party is associated with the sort of naive sentimentality that you have so directly espoused by your comment.

This election will be no different. I'm beginning to think that Kerry is about to suffer a defeat by a much broader margin than most anyone has been expecting. If so, a major factor will no doubt be the public backlash to the distorted mindset of the left: a mindset that seems to believe that if we just ignore terrorists and talk sweetly to them, they will go away; a creduloous, naive mindset that attempts to obfuscate simple truths under the pretense of intellectually sophisticated discourse. Fortunately, about the only folks the Left succeeds in impressing are themselves. Most other intelligent Americans (including the majority of our military families) see the Left's silly argumentation for what it is: stupidity clothed in erudite language.
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