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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (11479)	4/2/2004 4:00:34 AM
From: Chas.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

the Bushies have put a serious cramp in the Al Quida MO and they have de-commissioned the Taliban in Afghanistan, if we were to eliminate OBL tomorrow it would still take another 50 years to totally dismantle the Al Quida networks, they are all over the world, a festering, cancerous, malignant distortion of Islamic teaching. the Bushies will go down in history as the administration and people, specifically G Bush, Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, as the central charachters that started the reversal of Global Terrorism, the people that stood up to terrorism and reacted to it in the face of world mistrust and confusion, ...it is a good thing. it is easy to become lost, confused and transfixed (like a deer in your headlights)over the liberal hatred of George Bush and his group, leftys tend to have tunnel vision here and become incapable of seeing the big picture, the overall. Clarke is a registered Republican, a confirmed conservative, an intellectual realist and a great American that gave at least 30 years of his life to serving America in the hallowed and dangerous halls of Langley, the farm, the CIA...he is also a bureauocrat of the 1st order, a scorned player, a passed over zealot, he is one of our best in counter terrorism but he is pissed and in the throes of getting his book published, should be #1 on the best seller list by Monday...what he says does not really hurt us or betray us but is his perception of how Bush, Clinton, others have responded or not responded to his specific advice and consul, I think he thinks he should have Rices job or at the very least a new position created for himself.... regards from Chucky on the right

To: American Spirit who wrote (11479)	4/2/2004 7:50:46 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

They also diverted assets that could have been used to strike at Al Qaeda to an unrelated war which they had planned since they entered office. Question: When the Bush admin first struck at Al Qaeda and the Taliban, did they intentionally limit the resources devoted to the action because they planned to use those resources in the Iraq theater?

To: American Spirit who wrote (11479)	4/2/2004 8:32:10 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 81568

John Kerry is No Hero (To Me) Scott B. Kelly April 02, 2004 When George W. Bush aired a campaign commercial briefly touching upon his leadership on and after 9/11, Democratic operatives screamed in fury. They accused him of politicizing a national tragedy – a stupid and nonsensical charge, because Bush’s leadership is at the heart of the question of whether the people will re-elect him. But nary a word of protest is made over John Kerry’s “politicization” of his service in Vietnam – nor that I would expect there to be. Nevertheless, John Kerry has made Vietnam the centerpiece of his campaign. Writing as someone who has never worn a uniform, I am mightily offended by his posturing over his military service. Despite Kerry’s haughty pontification that his service grants him an aura of political insulation on foreign policy, his record is far from unassailable. In fact, it stands diametrically opposed to any claims that he is strong on our nation’s defense. Kerry’s actual votes in the Senate reveal that he consistently voted against military pay raises and against every modern weapon system – systems that now save our soldiers’ lives. He also voted against the liberation of Kuwait, against funding for the intelligence agencies, and against funding our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. His protestation that he “voted for the $87 billion before voting against it” notwithstanding, John Kerry is hostile to the US military. Kerry’s views of his fellow soldiers are disgusting. Read and listen to his actual words to the Senate in 1971, when he accused US soldiers collectively of rampant raping, mutilating, torturing and murdering hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese. Visit www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com to read Kerry’s inflammatory testimony. That largely false testimony is a direct assault upon those who served honorably in Vietnam, including my step-dad, a Marine platoon officer – the most honorable, decent and manly man I know, and one who bears no resemblance to what Kerry in 1971 called the “monster” soldier. Never having served, I can only say that most veterans I’ve met are humble and quiet about their service. My late grandfather (mom’s dad) and my wife’s late grandfather (her mom’s dad) both were Army in World War II. Grandpa laid telephone wire across North Africa, Sicily and France. He rarely talked of his service, but once I was privileged to meet one of his Army buddies. The brotherly love they had for each other came across in their stories, laughs and parting handshake. I don’t think Grandpa ever saw combat, but he saw its results. And he did his duty, came home and built a family, a career and put the fear of God into his grandchildren. My wife’s grandpa did see combat – some of the worst of the war. Like my Grandpa, he rarely spoke of his service. But he once showed me a picture of his engineering unit taken in March 1944. Only by holding that picture to a light do you see a pinhole through the chests of more than one third of the men. Those men were killed on D-Day, in the second wave at Omaha Beach – a battle my wife’s Grandpa had no idea how he survived. Both grandpas are heroes to me – as are all my family who served honorably and quietly. Unlike Kerry, they didn’t accuse their former brothers in arms of atrocities. They didn’t hang out with people who supported our nation’s enemies. They didn’t pretend to throw their medals over the White House fence. They didn’t use their military service for naked political advantage. A real hero never trumpets his service. He never struts with his medals on his chest. He usually never even talks about his service. He almost invariably gives the credit to his buddies. And he never allows himself to be called a hero. To him, the heroes are the ones who didn’t make it back home. Kerry can whine about phantom attacks on patriotism all he wants. But his record screams that he is incapable of leading this nation in time of war – or any other time. Because of his crass exploitation of his service, denigration of President Bush’s honorable Guard service and men such as my step-dad, Kerry is no hero to me and I don’t give a flying rip how many medals he has. opinioneditorials.com