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[Scott]

Orson Scott Card is a novelist. Unlike most novelists, he does not support John Kerry.

This week, he has two essays:

Why We Are Winning and How We Can Still Lose

In this first essay, he's talking about the GWOT, not the election.

Hypocrisy and Cynicism in America

From the second:

[Rdtf]

Thanks for the great post.

from the 1st article:

The point is that irresponsible politicians like Kerry are free to make false accusations against President Bush -- about how he is distracted from the real war, etc. -- and they know he can't answer, because he cannot prove how well the war is going without exposing and, probably, ending secret cooperation from Muslim governments.

In other words, Kerry is free to be irresponsible, dishonest, and unfair precisely because he knows that President Bush puts national security ahead of his own political advantage.

Unbeknownst to most Americans, the coalition President Bush has assembled in the war on terror -- as opposed to the Iraq campaign -- is vast and impressive. Building on the cooperation gradually built up among nations by his predecessors, including Clinton and Bush's own father, George W. Bush has gone even farther, enlisting an astonishingly wide range of governments that are helping us -- and being helped by us -- in stamping out terrorism and preventing terrorist acts.

Thus we have had quiet triumphs in preventing attacks in places as widely separated as Singapore, the Philippines, the Sahara desert, Turkey, Latin America, and the United States and Europe.

[Rdtf]

and this:

What Would Kerry Contribute?

John Kerry is quite possibly the worst possible commander-in-chief for a nation at war that has ever been seriously considered during a political campaign. There is no aspect of the war on terror that his record shows him capable of or even interested in promoting.

And despite his claim that he could assemble a multinational force to firmly pursue our enemies, we know this crucial fact: In 1991, when we had a U.N. resolution, a multinational force, and an enemy that had invaded another country, threatened to control the world's supply of oil, and had a record of using weapons of mass destruction which we knew he had, Kerry still voted against the Gulf War.

Kerry is the enemy of American military power, even when used multilaterally in support of international law. He will never, ever be capable of using our military effectively or carefully, despite the lies he tells during the process of a campaign.

And I call them lies because they so obviously are lies. Democrats speculate without evidence about President Bush's and Vice-President Cheney's motives all the time, accusing them of deception without a shred of evidence.

But Kerry's claim to being tougher and smarter about military matters than Bush is so obviously false that we should be laughing whenever he makes it. He has been wrong on every defense system, on every vote in his entire political career. If Kerry's will had prevailed, we would have no military that was capable of resisting our enemies.

And that is precisely the reason why the fanatic left wing of the Democratic Party is so eager to elect John Kerry. Because they know he's lying about his intentions concerning the war. They're counting on it. If they believed that he actually meant what he says about the war on terror, they would never vote for him.

Copyright © 2004 by Orson Scott Card.