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To: D. Long who wrote (33022)	3/5/2004 7:35:28 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

THE PRESIDENT'S 9/11 CASE NY Post - Editorial March 5, 2004 -- Is it fair for President Bush to use images from Ground Zero in his reelection campaign? Damned right it is. The more, the merrier. Just as Rudy Giuliani stood tall for New York City in the hours, days and weeks after 9/11, so did George W. Bush offer calm, reasoned, determined leadership to a nation shaken to its roots by acts of unfathomable barbarism. Moreover, U.S. troops are today deployed around the world, prosecuting a manifestly necessary war on international terrorism - in whatever form it may take. So it doesn't hurt to remind America, in no uncertain terms, exactly why the war is necessary. The president and his policies have absorbed one left hook after another - from as many as 10 Democratic presidential candidates - during the primary campaign that effectively ended Tuesday. Sen. John Kerry is now the presumptive Democratic nominee - so now it's "No More Mr. Nice Guy" for the president. It is time for Bush to remind voters who he is - and who John Kerry is. Thus the first round of re-election ads, which lean heavily on 9/11 and the president's response to it. Since the attack, Bush has: * Waged successful military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, countries whose tyrants hosted oppression - and exported murder and disorder throughout their regions and beyond; * Placed both countries on the road to representative democracy with a swiftness that few could have imagined, and * Provided such moral clarity on confronting terror-sponsoring states that longtime bad agents began to clean up their acts. Libya, for one, voluntarily abandoned its development of weapons of mass destruction. Yes, America has paid a heavy price in lives and treasure - but what choice did the president have? Effectively ignore the threat, as did his predecessors, going back to the terror attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983? Or fight back? He fought back - and God bless him for it. No doubt some sensitive souls will be offended by the imagery in the ads. And that's regrettable. But most of the outrage so far has been manufactured - churned out in bulk by the spewmeisters at Moveon.Org, related left-wing crank factories and a tabloid fellow traveler. It won't work. Because America knows better. NEW YORK POST