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Politics : The TRUTH About John Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (506)	3/1/2004 12:40:14 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1483

Kerry Taps the Coward’s Vote by Alan Caruba 01 March 2004 The likely candidate for the Democrat Party nomination, John Kerry, was one of the leading protesters of our war in Vietnam, but this war is very different. George W. Bush calls himself “a war President”, but Americans seem to be more focused of late on the state of the economy. Moreover, the war was fought and won so swiftly, it has virtually faded from the minds of Americans, despite the fact we have troops deployed in combat situations both in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Once the “embedded” journalists came home, the war, for most people, was over. Only it’s not. This war is about transforming a region of the world in ways that may well take a generation or more. It’s about ridding the region of despotism. It’s about putting in place the structures for real, lasting democracy. That will take a long time. Americans have always been reluctant to change Presidents in the midst of a war, but now Democrats are telling people the Iraq war was unjust and unwise. This is how the Democrat Party is seeking to seize power again. Given the fact that America was attacked, to undermine the resolve of Americans to wage a war that has, to date, protected them against a further attack, is idiotic. And worse. This is why Americans being told over and over again that Bush43 “misled” or even “lied” to them? Of late, we are being told the President has no “strategy.” If so, whatever he’s doing seems to be working! Why is this generation of Americans so impatient with the process of initiating some form of democracy in Iraq? Why not remove a dictator who waged two wars with neighboring nations, gassed his own citizens, and tried to assassinate a former US President? In essence, the real issue of Iraq is whether or not it was the right and, indeed, the moral thing to do? Americans instinctively understand this. As evidence mounts of countless thousands of Iraqis murdered by Saddam’s regime, why do Democrats want to get out as fast as possible while saying nothing about the future for Iraq if it is allowed to become another Islamic republic. Do we really need another Iran in that area? The likely candidate for the Democrat Party nomination, Senator John Kerry, was one of the leading protesters of our war in Vietnam, but this war is very different. It is the stealthy use of terror to weaken our resolve to thwart the ambitions of fundamentalist Muslims; men who are committed to imposing their religion on the world. Unlike too many Americans, they are very patient. They waited for eight years between the first bombing of the Twin Towers in 1993 and the attack in 2001 that destroyed that symbol of America’s economic power. Reportedly, they are training an unknown number of terrorists to become “sleeper cells” in America to wreak further terror upon us in the years ahead. There are an estimated 1.2 million Arabs in America, some 75% of whom are Christian. According to the latest US Census, about 20% of Arabs in America are Muslim, but that is more than enough among whom to hide. There are, in addition, both American blacks and Asian Muslims. There are more than two thousand mosques in America in which to meet and plot their attacks. The election campaign is shaping up as one led by a Democrat candidate who thinks the war is a “law enforcement” problem, not a potential for unthinkable lethal attacks that can take place in any American city at any time. Senator Kerry is looking to tap the coward’s vote. George W. Bush is not perfect. No President is, but he understands the scope of the threat that America faces. The Democrats either do not or they do not care. They have demonstrated they are willing to say anything to acquire the power of the Oval Office. Their last candidate for President, Al Gore, is now going around saying that Bush “betrayed” America. No, he did not. Bush acted to protect it, something former President Clinton, his Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, and his National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, never did intellectualconservative.com

To: PROLIFE who wrote (506)	3/1/2004 2:02:05 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1483

Kerry and the ayatollahs As Sen. John Kerry expands his lead in the Democratic presidential primaries, he is coming under fire for his conciliatory statements about the government of Iran and his attacks on the Bush administration's policy toward the regime. Ever since the Iranian Revolution occurred during Jimmy Carter's presidency a quarter-century ago, Tehran has been hostile to the United States and one of the world's leading supporters of terrorism — providing funding, weapons, training and safe haven to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and even al Qaeda. But Mr. Kerry seems to believe that the crux of the problem isn't Iran's despotic, violent rulers, but President Bush's behavior toward them. In a Dec. 3 address to the Council on Foreign Relations, Mr. Kerry suggested that the Bush administration's unwillingness to bargain with Tehran is to blame for Iran's harboring of al Qaeda operatives. "It is incomprehensible and unacceptable that this administration refuses to broker an arrangement with Iran," Mr. Kerry declared. "The Bush administration stubbornly refuses to conduct a realistic, non-confrontational policy with Iran." Mr. Kerry's national security issues coordinator, Rand Beers, said last month that U.S.-Iranian talks have been blocked by the Bush administration, which "is so tied in its own ideological views of Iran and waiting for the Iranian regime to collapse." On Feb. 8, the Tehran Times published a letter that Mr. Kerry's office sent to an Iranian news agency explaining why he should be elected president. The letter suggests that the Bush administration's objectionable behavior toward other nations is to blame for many of the world's problems. "Sadly, we are also painfully aware of how the actions and attitudes demonstrated by the U.S. government over the past three years have threatened the goodwill earned by presidents of both parties over many decades and put many of our international relationships at risk," the Kerry letter says. Mr. Kerry's comments suggesting that the Bush administration is to blame for Tehran's animosity have drawn a sharp rebuke from the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran. "Why, Senator? Why and how could a man of your honor and valor disregard the suffering people of a nation and appease a brutal regime?" the group asked in a Feb. 19 open letter to Mr. Kerry (the full text is availableonthegroup'sWebsiteat www.daneshjoo.org). Mr. Kerry's campaign has thus far failed to respond to this newspaper's queries about the letter or his position on Iran. But his statements thus far indicate a profound misunderstanding of reality: It is not Mr. Bush, but the Iranian regime's malevolent behavior for the past 25 years, that has damaged relations between the two countries. washingtontimes.com