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 Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 12:12 am Post subject: Kerry's Deliberate Deception |
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Hello,
Shadow War
by Richard Miniter
| Quote: | | The covert war and near-misses America has experienced since 9/11 are revealed in a study that describes how brave customs officials uncovered and defeated an al Quaeda plot to smuggle terrorists and bombs into the United States and how an assassination plot against President Bush was averted. |
Why We Are Winning and How We Can Still Lose
By Orson Scott Card October 10, 2004
| Quote: | The dominant issue in this election is the war on terror.
Kerry and the other Democrats have made a series of charges against President Bush and his administration -- that the Iraq campaign was a distraction from the "real war" against Al Qaeda; that the Patriot Act is not necessary and that it is being abused; that Bush "let Bin Laden get away" at Tora Borah.
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| Quote: | Contrary to Kerry's deliberate deception, Bush did not "let Osama get away" at Torah Bora. It was winter in extraordinarily rugged country. All the forces that could be brought to bear were deployed, but no one, not even Bush, can defeat weather and terrain all the time.
Nor is Iraq is a distraction. In fact, there is simply no doubt among honest people who know anything at all that Iraq under Saddam was a sponsor of terror, that it had ties to Al Qaeda, and that it was a dangerous source of shelter, training, weaponry, and funding to international terrorism.
The Iraq campaign has diverted nothing and distracted no one. The work being done against terrorism has vastly increased and improved during the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns. The Bush administration is using appropriate levels of force and funding. There are times when pumping more money and manpower into a particular area does not make things go better, it makes them go worse.
Miniter points this out in an extended example, about a seemingly reliable intelligence source from Sudan who warned of an assassination plot against George W. Bush. He named names, and the details he provided checked out -- everything except the tiny detail that the alleged assassin was nothing more than a Sudanese whose only goal was to live in America without waiting for the appropriate paperwork.
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| Quote: | 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.
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What Would Kerry Contribute?
| Quote: | 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.
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