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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (670236)	1/31/2005 10:06:33 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

January 29, 2005 \| 10:26 a.m. ET Politics over freedom (Joe Scarborough) You would like to think that in the end, when all the political shoving and scratching is over, that Americans would come together for what is in the best interest of their country. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Over the past week, Democrats like Ted Kennedy, Madeleine Albright, and Wesley Clark have done their best to downplay the importance of Sunday's Iraqi elections. Why would they make such absurd statements about a process that will bring democracy to a traumatized country for the first time in history? Why can they not put aside partisan politics for a few days to celebrate the fact that for the first time since they were installed by the Ottoman Empire in the 15th Century, the Sunni minority will no longer be able to oppress the other 80 percent if the Iraqi population? Why do they choose words that can only be seen as providing comfort to the terrorists who want to delay, undermine, and dismiss this historic election? For one simple reason: Because success in Iraq means validation of the president's foreign policy goals. And too many Democrats and editorial writers would rather see America humiliated abroad than see the President succeed at home. This is not easy for me to write. I have spent the better part of a decade in public service trying to explain to Americans that there are great leaders in both political parties. But I would be lying to you if I did not admit that I am ashamed of the actions of some of my Democratic friends. The same holds true for some of America's great newspapers and news networks. It goes without saying that were this an effort promoted during the Clinton Administration, press coverage would be almost universally positive and President Clinton would be up for a Nobel Peace Prize. But since it is George W. Bush, our president is attacked as a war criminal and the press is almost universally negative. Coverage in Europe has been bitterly biased against the forces of freedom. (See Reagan's fight to win the Cold War for a historical parallel.) If you stuck a gun to my head and asked me to name one good thing that would come out of a John Kerry victory, I would have told you that his win would have finally forced Democrats to get behind their Commander in Chief leading America in our war on terror. But since their candidate lost, many have allowed their hatred of George W. Bush to put them in the tragic position to be cheering for the same result in Iraq as Osama Bin Laden and al Zarqawi. I ask the same question to these politicians that John Lennon once asked of his former bandmates. "How do you sleep at night?" msnbc.msn.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (670236)	1/31/2005 10:09:24 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 769667

Minister: Suicide bomber a handicapped child Iraq police say attacker seemed to suffer from Down's SyndromeThe Associated Press Updated: 7:25 a.m. ET Jan. 31, 2005BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq’s interior minister said Monday that insurgents used a handicapped child as one of the suicide bombers who launched attacks on election day. Falah al-Naqib told reporters in Baghdad that 38 attacks were carried out on polling stations in Iraq on Sunday and that one of the suicide bombings was carried out by a disabled child. “A handicapped child was used to carry out a suicide attack on a polling site,” al-Naqib said. “This is an indication of what horrific actions they are carrying out.” He gave no other details about the attack, but police at the scene of one the Baghdad blasts said the bomber appeared to have Down’s Syndrome. Al-Naqib praised an Iraqi citizen who was killed while blocking one suicide bomber from reaching a crowd of people outside at polling station. Iraq’s prime minister, Ayad Allawi, said the seven men who carried out suicide attacks near polling stations Sunday were foreigners. In all, insurgent attacks and suicide bombers left at least 44 people dead Sunday. msnbc.msn.com