To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (723496 ) 1/30/2006 8:59:26 PM From: Hope Praytochange Respond to of 769670 kennyboy: it might be TOO long for your peabrain to comprehend Message 22115247 read the excerpt: Finally, Dionne castigates the party hierarchy, presumably the Harry Reids, the Nancy Pelosis, the Kerrys, and the Clintons, urging them to grow a spine on the terrorism issue: You "cannot evade the security debate." You "must challenge the terms under which Rove and Bush would conduct it." Fact is, Dionne and the rest of the radical left media, along with the wild-eyed antiwar leadership of the Democratic Party, are all equally convinced that Bush in his refusal to abandon the war on terrorism, and Rove in his strategy for turning that war to the Republicans' political advantage, are just not playing fair. They want the Republicans to mend their ways and play nicey-nice. The Bush administration should worry more about the comfort of imprisoned terrorists who want to murder numberless innocents, than about protecting the lives of American citizens and soldiers. On the left’s scale of moral values, the highest value must be accorded to safeguarding the civil rights of terrorist leaders planning attacks on the telephone together with bin Laden's Islamist collaborators who have infiltrated our borders. The terrorists must be permitted to keep their phone numbers unlisted so they can hatch their plots unimpeded. The viperous Clinton apologist Paul Begala expectorated the moral calculus on Monday while appearing on CNN's Wolf Blitzer show. Characteristically, Begala perverted the "Live Free or Die" motto of the Granite State and imputed his own Death Wish to the American people: "Americans prize their freedoms more than their lives," he proclaimed, and therefore would rather die en masse than permit warrantless wiretaps of al Qaeda terrorist leaders communicating mass murder plans to their American counterparts. This Begalism was one of those veritable fits of inadvertent disclosure that occurs when the fevered mind of the leftist is subjected to Bush-Rovean tectonics. Arrogating to himself the right to sacrifice American lives to protect terrorists, what Begala meant was (adapting another leftist cliché), "Better any number of Americans lives lost to the terrorists than the civil rights of even a single al Qaeda terrorist infringed."