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To: JohnM who wrote (47304)	5/27/2004 4:51:07 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793954

Dick Morris The Political Life Al Qaeda’s presidential campaign The election for president is a three-way race. No, its not Ralph Nader I’m talking about. It’s al Qaeda. The terrorists have always shown a proclivity for participation in the democratic process by distinctly undemocratic means. From the bomb that shattered the prospects of the favored and ruling pro-Aznar Party in Spain to the terrorist attacks on the West Bank and in Israel that doomed the Labor Party and inaugurated Benyamin Netan-yahu’s party in Israel, the terrorists are well aware of the political implications of their mayhem on democratic elections. They follow the polls and time their interventions with a skill any American political consultant would envy. Their capacity to disrupt elections in the United States was evident in the destruction of President Carter. Furious at the former president for sheltering the Shah of Iran, the Iranian militants seized American hostages and used their more than 400 days of captivity to make Carter appear even weaker and more vacillating that he was. Only when the Georgian was soundly defeated did they finally consent to the release of the hostages, ending the crisis along with the Carter presidency. Now it is evident that the terrorists in Iraq are trying to do to Bush what their Shiite brethren did to Carter. By manipulating the pace and ferocity of their guerrilla war, they are moving the poll numbers in America more surely than the combined efforts of the Kerry campaign and his allies in the 527 community. If George Soros himself were orchestrating their timing, it could not have a more profound effect on the U.S. election campaign. Since the Iraqi terrorist offensive started in earnest, Bush has lost 15 points in job approval and 10 points in the head-to-head vote share. And still counting. The history of intervention in American political campaigns on behalf of insurgents and against the incumbents who wage the war goes back to the Viet Cong’s Tet offensive of 1968, which animated Eugene McCarthy’s surge in the New Hampshire primary against President Johnson and impelled Robert F. Kennedy’s entrance into the race. Two months after the offensive was soundly defeated by the U.S. military, Johnson was, nevertheless, forced to withdraw from the race for president. It is clear that the Iraqi insurgents are playing American politics with their military actions. Sworn to get Bush, they are keeping their eyes clearly focused on U.S. polls and our political process as they kill, behead and destroy our forces and civilians in Iraq. It is not the Governing Council in Baghdad that they wish to topple. It is the Bush administration in Washington. Their goal is not to assassinate the would-be rulers of Iraq. That is just a means to their end. Their objective is to defeat George W. Bush. The president and his advisers are kidding themselves if they believe that a handover of power in Iraq will quell the ferocity of the enemy. Free elections in that bedraggled nation will likewise have no impact on their determination. It is the free elections and handover of power in the United States that catalyze their efforts more than anything else. What this means for Bush is very simple: As long as he is president, Iraq will continue to boil over. There will be no shortage of suicide bombers waiting to take American lives at the cost of their own in the hopes that their action may strike back at the leader of the “Great Satan.” Bush’s only way to frustrate their efforts is to deny them a target. He needs to get our troops — and therefore himself — out of harm’s way. Decreasing the likelihood of American casualties in Iraq is not a means to the end of pacifying the nation. It is an action that, by itself, will remove much of the incentive for the violence. It is precisely to kill Americans and, through them, to destroy Bush that these attacks take place. By limiting American intervention and deployment, to drive down the daily toll of casualties, Bush can achieve the one goal that will demonstrate, more clearly than anything else, American resolve – his own re-election. Nothing would be so clear an affirmation of American willingness to fight terror than his victory at the polls. He must not deny himself — and our nation — a second term by giving the Iraqi insurgents targets at which to shoot. If killing Americans will hurt Bush, Iraqis will continue to try to kill them. It is only by orchestrating our military presence in such a way as to minimize their opportunities to do so that Bush can deny them their ultimate triumph on the American election day

To: JohnM who wrote (47304)	5/27/2004 5:09:56 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793954

You are up early, John. Did you see that picture of Al Gore ranting? Looks like he is trying to expell a hairball.

To: JohnM who wrote (47304)	10/6/2004 4:58:47 PM
From: Rollcast...	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793954

PROTESTERS STORM BUSH/CHENEY MILWAUKEE HEADQUARTERS... wisgop.org Protestors Ransack Bush/Cheney Headquarters In Orlando 2 People Receive Minor Injuries During Protest local6.com Hey professor, your party is acting like a bunch of thugs. Do you think Al Gore will call these people Nazis? Maybe patriots?

To: JohnM who wrote (47304)	10/18/2004 4:24:04 PM
From: Rollcast...	Respond to of 793954

Krugman's "sugar daddy" endorses Kerry - asks all Muslims to do the same... Mahathir tells American Muslims to vote for Kerry straitstimes.asia1.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's former prime minister has urged Muslims in America to vote for US Senator John Kerry in the Nov 2 presidential election, saying President George W. Bush has been 'the cause of the tragedies' across the Muslim world. 'Vote Bush out of office,' Dr Mahathir Mohamad said in an open letter dated Oct 15 to America's Muslim community. 'It is truly an ibadah (act of devotional worship) that you perform.' Advertisement 'In the past four years, during the Presidency of George W. Bush, the Muslims and their countries have suffered oppression and humiliation as never before in the history of Islam,' he said in the letter published on IslamiCity.com, a California-based website. 'There is an obvious connection between the sufferings of the Muslims and the policies and thinking of Bush,' the letter said. It was the most strongly worded statement opposing Mr Bush so far by a prominent official in Malaysia, which currently chairs the 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the world's largest Muslim political grouping. Dr Mahathir, who retired last October but remains a respected figure in the Islamic world, said Muslims have 'a duty to ensure Bush will not be able to determine our fate for four more years'. 'Bush has shown that despite his protests, he is the cause of the tragedies in Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq,' he said. 'I would like to appeal to you, the Muslim citizens and voters of America, to be united and to cast your votes against Bush, in the name of justice, in the name of Islam.' In March, Dr Mahathir had said he believed Mr Kerry might be a better president because he would keep the world safer and listen to other opinions. However, Mr Kerry's aides insisted the Democratic candidate 'rejects any association' with the Malaysian ex-premier, whom they called 'an avowed anti-Semite whose views are totally deplorable'. Dr Mahathir retired last year mired in a controversy after telling a summit of Muslim leaders that 'Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them'. The remarks drew condemnation from Western leaders. -- AP