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To: LindyBill who wrote (50901)	6/19/2004 12:28:18 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793963

A BATTLE CRY By Cori Dauber - Ranting Profs As I'm sure you know, virtually every outlet yesterday (or this morning) covered John McCain's appearance with President Bush at Ft. Lewis Washington yesterday. But they were only interested in the fact of his appearance, since it presumably spelled an end to the Democratic "dream ticket" of Kerry-McCain. (How Kerry was supposed to explain putting a pro-life candidate on the ticket aside.) But since all the press cared about was the political process story, they ignored what McCain actually had to say in a powerful, often moving speech, the most important section of which I wanted to share with you here: The events of September 11, 2001, beyond the immeasurable grief and suffering it caused for thousands of American families, was a battle cry that summoned America to a war we vaguely knew was going on but hadn't really comprehended how near the threat was and how atrocious were the purposes and plans of our enemies. It's a big thing, this war, a fight between two ideologies completely opposed to each other. It's a fight between a just regard for human dignity and a malevolent force that defiles an honorable religion by disputing God's love for each and every soul on Earth. It's a fight between right and wrong, good and evil. It's no more ambiguous than that. It's a fight, and should the enemy acquire for their arsenal the chemical, biological and nuclear weapons they seek, this war will become an even bigger thing. It will become a fight for survival. That's why your courage is so indispensable to us. You have taken the fight to our enemies, Al Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan, and you took the fight to Iraq where the tyrant Saddam. Whether he possessed the terrible weapons that would have turned this war into a fight for survival or not, he had used them before and was, I have no doubt, firmly determined to possess them again someday -- for what terrible purpose we can only imagine with dread. Moreover, you have, by your service and sacrifice, given hope to a people long oppressed, long oppressed by a savage tyrant that if they have the courage and the will for it, they may live in peace and freedom. And you have given hope -- you have given hope to the people of a region that has never known freedom or peace or lasting stability, that they may someday soon know the blessings of self- determination. For the threats we face from the Middle East will never, never be finally defeated until the values of freedom that we know are universal, are possessed by all the people of that violent and unhappy place. War, my friends, is an unhappy business. It's a miserable business. MCCAIN: You know (inaudible) sacrifice. Innocent people suffer. Commerce is disrupted. Economies are damaged. Strategic interests, shielded by years of (inaudible), are endangered as the exigencies of war and diplomacy conflict. However powerful the appeal of a call to arms, however just the cause, we should all shed a tear for all that will be lost when the war claims its wages from us. But there is no avoiding this war. America is under attack by a depraved malevolent force that opposes our every interest and hates every value we hold dear. We have already suffered terrible blows that no American alive today will ever forget. But we will survive; our enemies must not. rantingprofs.typepad.com