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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (23216)	10/29/2004 9:08:37 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 27181

What Is a War President? Franklin D. Roosevelt's grandson assesses George W. Bush's performance AP The president delivers his first radio 'fireside chat' in Washington, March 1933 WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY By James Roosevelt Jr. NewsweekOct. 29 - Last May, I walked through the magnificent new World War II Memorial that was soon to be dedicated on the National Mall in Washington. The architecture, sculpture and carved quotations were impressive. But it was the faces of the retired veterans and the depth of feeling in the eyes of their wives and widows that was most moving. As I watched them read the words of inspiration from the war's leaders etched into the stone walls, I thought of my father, who served during the war as a Marine in Carlson's Raiders. His father, my grandfather, was making his own contribution: as president of the United States. Today, I remember the words etched into that memorial while I read the news from Iraq. The contrast is stark. This summer, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's name and legacy were invoked by almost a dozen speakers at the Republican National Convention. But George W. Bush is not, and never will be, a president like FDR. In the White House today is a man who for the first time in our nation's history invaded another country without our first being attacked and without the support of a global alliance. The real leadership of FDR, by contrast, was the skill with which he solidified our alliances and made winning the war a truly global effort. At home, FDR mobilized American industrial power to provide the needed equipment for our forces and those of our allies. His fireside chats focused on calls for national sacrifice, but his concern for the troops was also very personal. My father and all three of his brothers were on active duty—in combat—in the Marine Corps, the Navy and the Army Air Corps. Their sister, Anna, and their mother, Eleanor Roosevelt, ministered to the soldiers and sailors with the American Red Cross. They shared the common sacrifices with ordinary Americans both in uniform oversees and in factories, homes and offices all over America. Where are George W. Bush's personal sacrifices? Where are the inspirational words meant to mobilize America now? Most importantly, Dr. Win the War (as FDR was called) met with the leaders of the Allied nations throughout the war to plan the peace. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, together with Joseph Stalin and sometimes even Charles DeGaulle, knew that military victory leading to an unplanned peace was hollow and potentially disastrous. Iraq today proves that their fears were well founded. Americans old enough to remember the 1940s—and those of us who learn from history—have a model of a War President. He is one who builds true cooperation with our foreign friends. He is one who is never the aggressor, but once attacked, involves even those closest to him in an all-out effort to win. And he is one who has a plan for the peace such as the Marshall Plan in Europe or reindustrialization in Japan. A War President isn't self-proclaimed. A president becomes a true War President by leadership that inspires followers at home and abroad. And most importantly, a War President never loses sight of the goals of true peace with honor. For Bush to grant himself this title is an insult to my grandfather and the inspired leaders who led this country in wars that were just. To put it simply, George W. Bush has not earned the right to be called a War President. Roosevelt is a former associate commissioner of Social Security for Retirement Policy

To: American Spirit who wrote (23216)	10/29/2004 10:19:13 PM
From: Solid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

People like you are so distorted in your understanding of American patriotism that you eat away at the fabric of our country like a pernicious disease constantly seeking a weakly guarded entrance as a means into the host of the people that you hope to influence and defeat. Your means are hurtful and your tools are unamerican. Your way of relating and your way of arguing is an attempt to topple faith in our current government. Make no mistake, your disguise is non-existent. Your goal of assisting the terrorists by weakening resolve in our president and faith in the inherent goodness and decency that America has always embraced is seditious during this time of war. You truly sound more like an Al Quada member posing as an American then an American with a reasonable descenting view. But then again so does John Kerry and Ted Kennedy and the other host of President Bush haters. You, your party and your candidates doctrine of victory for your cause through venomous smear and disinformation against 'your opponent' is itself proof that what you hope to win is not worthy of support from any truely historically defined American citizen. You win and you expect we will accept your arguments when voiced with such poisen? Or worse, you could care less and the hell with us? You offer through your approach more division, more deterioration of respect for the constructs other generations that have gone before have worked so hard to passs on to us and entrust to our care. Share with us through reasonable discourse what your party hopes to accomplish and has accomplished based upon record and achievments and tone down the negativity. You can not as you have been thus challenged before and have added more attack and slander to the stage. The action begs the question, why? You have nothing of real substance to offer. Merely an excuse like this. I hate Bush because I love Kerry and what the democrats 'say' they are against and say they are for. Bush went to Iraq. Vietnam was wrong and the government of the conservatives can not be trusted and so Iraqs the same thing because kerry and his allies and the media machine SAY IT IS SO. And so IT IS in your mind. You fail to realize you turn your back on your own democratic roots. Read President Kennedy's inauguration speech. He pledged support to all who embrace freedom and pegged it to what America is all about...that is why he opened the door to Vietnam, to stop communism. But I guess that was too simplistic... War IS hell. All war IS HELL. You are a fool at best and a treasonous turncoat to true American values at worst. Listen to the tapes as they are released and translated. You sound and so does Kennedy and kerry like OBL supporters blaming our governmnet and our country for their problems. Justifying their grievences and their attacks as being our fault, our guilt.