THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VI, Issue # 44, March 2, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION POLITICS 2004: THE GIST OF THE DEMOCRATS'
CAMPAIGN THUS FAR -- JOHN KERRY TAPS THE COWARDS' VOTE
By Alan Caruba
George W. Bush calls himself “a war President”, but Americans seem to be more focused of late on the state of the economy. Moreover,
the war was fought and won so swiftly, it has virtually faded from the minds of Americans, despite the fact we have troops deployed in
combat situations both in Iraq and in Afghanistan.
Once the “embedded” journalists came home, the war, for most people, was over. Only it’s not. This war is about transforming a region
of the world in ways that may well take a generation or more. It’s about ridding the region of despotism. It’s about putting in place the
structures for real, lasting constitutional democracy. That will take a long time.
Americans have always been reluctant to change Presidents in the midst of a war, but now Democrats are telling people the Iraq war was
unjust and unwise. This is how the Democratic Party is seeking to seize power again. Given the fact that America was attacked, to
undermine the resolve of Americans to wage a war that has, to date, protected them against a further attack, is idiotic. And worse.
This is why Americans being told over and over again that Bush 43 “misled” or even “lied” to them? Of late, we are being told the
President has no “strategy.” If so, whatever he’s doing seems to be working!
Why is this generation of Americans so impatient with the process of initiating some form of constitutional democracy in Iraq? Why
not remove a dictator who waged two wars with neighboring nations, gassed his own citizens, and tried to assassinate a former U.S.
President? In essence, the real issue of Iraq is whether or not it was the right and, indeed, the moral, thing to do? Americans
instinctively understand this.
As evidence mounts of countless thousands of Iraqis murdered by Saddam Hussein's regime, why do Democrats want to get out as
fast as possible, while saying nothing about the future for Iraq if it is allowed to become another Islamic republic. Do we really need
another Iran in that area?
The likely candidate for the Democrat Party presidential nomination, U.S. Senator John Kerry, was one of the leading protesters of our
war in Vietnam, but this war is very different. It is the stealthy use of terror to weaken our resolve to thwart the ambitions of
fundamentalist Muslims -- men who are committed to imposing their religion on the world. Unlike too many Americans, they are very
patient. They waited for eight years between the first bombing of the Twin Towers in 1993 and the attack in 2001 that destroyed that
symbol of America’s economic power.
Reportedly, they are training an unknown number of terrorists to become “sleeper cells” in America to wreak further terror upon us in
the years ahead. There are an estimated 1.2 million Arabs in America, some 75% of whom are Christian. According to the latest U.S.
Census, about 20% of Arabs in America are Muslim, but that is more than enough among whom to hide. There are, in addition, both
American Black Muslims and Asian Muslims. There are more than two thousand mosques in America in which to meet and plot their
attacks.
The election campaign is shaping up as one led by a Democratic Party candidate who thinks the war is a “law enforcement” problem,
not a potential for unthinkable lethal attacks that can take place in any American city at any time. Senator Kerry is looking to tap the
coward’s vote.
George W. Bush is not perfect, nor is any other person who has occupied or will occupy the Office of President. President Bush, though far
from perfect, understands the scope of the threat that America faces. The Democrats either do not understand or do not care. They have
demonstrated they are willing to say anything to acquire the power of the Oval Office.
The Democrats' last candidate for President, Al Gore, is now going around saying that Bush “betrayed” America. No, he did not.
Bush acted to protect it, something former President Bill Clinton, his Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, and his National
Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, never did.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Americaln Politics & Political Competition
American Government & the U.S. Presidency
The Middle East & the Problem of Iraq
The Problem of Rogue States:
Iraq as a Case History
The Middle East & the Arabs
The Threat of Radical Islam
More on the Threat of Radical Islam
War & Peace in the Real World
Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, Communications Director of the American Policy Center,
and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly
column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center
(www.anxietycenter.com). A compilation of his past col- umns, entitled Warning Signs, is published by Merril Press. In addition
to Warning Signs, Caruba is the author of A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam and The United Na- tions vs. the United States,
both of which are available from the National Anxiety Center, 9 Brookside Road, Maplewood, New Jersey, 07040.
Copyright 2004 Alan Caruba
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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