Posted on 05/23/2002 2:57:17 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
It has been six months since al-Qaeda terrorists operating from bases in more than a dozen nations attacked the World Trade Center and killed 3,000 American civilians on their own soil. A month later - after nearly a decade of inaction against al-Qaeda attacks - America struck back. In less than two months, al-Qaeda's host regime in Afghanistan was destroyed. This victory was accomplished with a minimum of casualties; an international coalition against terror was forged. No small accomplishment for America's commander-in-chief.
But there are some who can't take yes for an answer. In some quarters the leader responsible for these triumphs is himself under siege. The Democrats' Minority Leader thinks the war lacks direction and definition (What is it you don't understand about evil, Mr. Daschle?) Others on the left are even more carping. Salon.com, for example has an ongoing series called Bushed! whose articles regularly accuse the President of not having done anything right since the military victory in Afghanistan and - more generally (and absurdly) of not being up to his job.
These attacks come in an environment of danger that makes them difficult to comprehend even as partisan hits. There are an estimated 100 al-Qaeda cells operating within the borders of the United States. During the last decade, 100,000 terrorists have been trained in al-Qaeda's terror camps from the West Bank to Afghanistan with one mission - to kill American men, women and children, and destroy the Great Satan........(click on link to read the full article......)
(but read this): In this, as in other matters affecting this conflict, the President has told the truth - no small matter as far as our security is concerned and - for a recent President -- not a small grace. Al-Qaeda first bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 using Palestinian, Egyptian and Iraqi terrorists. Bill Clinton did not even visit the site. For eight years Clinton did not inform the American people what government intelligence knew -- that our country was under attack by an international army of religious fanatics whose backers included half a dozen nations armed with weapons of mass destruction. Nor did Clinton put in place the most basic security measures -- at airports for example - that would have prevented the September attack.
Where are the articles about Clinton's incompetence? Where is the recognition that Clinton was not up to the job as commander-in-chief and that Bush's response to the war against us has been masterly and responsible in contrast.........(more at linked site)...........?
(BUT READ THIS:)
But in the midst of this unprecedented national crisis, which unites all Americans as potential victims, and only six months after the initial attack, and while we are engaged in our own counter-offensive, and even as the Bush Administration struggles against time to close the Grand Canyon-size holes in our homeland defenses, the political left is in full bore attack. Not against al-Qaeda or its domestic allies or the gaps in our security that put us in danger, but against George Bush, his administration, and most venomously the Attorney General who is attempting to reform the system that has already permitted the slaughter of 3,000 Americans. Mr. Ashcroft why do you want to target Muslims who are here illegally from terrorist countries and subject them to added scrutiny? Have you no decency?
In other words, politically it is anti-American business as usual on the political left.........
(just a bit more from Mr. Horowitz - but the full essay should be read):
The American people need George Bush, but George Bush also needs the support of the American people. A nation united behind its leader is the only nation that can win a war whose terrain of battle is inside its borders. Eighty-plus percent of the American people understand this and are grateful for a leader who has led us magnificently into battle in the conflict to date. The facile Bush critics- particularly those who during the impeachment process kept pointing to Clinton's ratings in the polls as a rationale for keeping him in office -- should recognize that on this matter the American people once again are right. (This is not to say that Clinton should not have been impeached. He should not have been impeached on perjury over sex. He should have been impeached for betraying the nation's security.)
George Bush - as a result of his own leadership decisions -- is commanding American forces in this war as head of the most ethnically diverse administration in the history of nations. He has shown us a commander who is decisive against our enemies in battle, and who is generous in his power, extending an unprecedented tolerance to those inside our borders who are from the countries that are our enemies. President Bush has thus put together both elements of America's strength - its military might and its democratic example. Criticism that appreciates the debt already owed to this President is one thing. But criticism that belittles and demonizes him and denies him his due, is no service to our nation and undermines its cause.
The Anti-American LEFT is out to assist our enemies in destroying us because by their attacks in the President, they give the terrorists the division in our country that they need to accomplish their deadly tasks.
Those who side with the LEFT in their vicious attacks on the President are part and parcel of what will, if not stopped, destroy this country by assisting the destroyers!
Hillary Clinton and Dan Rather should be arrested on charges of betrayal of this country - with a trove of America's communists following closely behind.
Not only does he have to fight the foreign terrorists who would destroy our country and our way of life, but he has to fight the domestic terrorists in Congress who want to destroy our country and our way of life. Shame on them!!
God bless President Bush!
Lots of this kind of criticism around here as well as from the D party. You know the ones - they refer to the president as 'shrub' or 'jr', NWO-globalist, statist, blah, blah, blah, blah.....
Yes, let's pass this around to anybody else we can who might appreciate it or who might need "fuel" for the firefight.
The leftist looooooonies have absolutely no pretense. They want to destroy our President - whom this nation NEEDS in fighting this war - INSIDE OUR OWN BORDERS. PRAY LIKE OUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT BECAUSE THEY DO!
I remember a story about the Revolutionary War - when General Washington was frustrated by the fact that the Congress would not allow those who signed on to fight with him to get more than six months "commitment" from the government.....so that by the time they were trained, their time in the service was up. And, many times, that Congress failed to provide the basics: clothing, shoes, food, pay - for Washington's troops. But still they stayed with him.
One soldier, when being encouraged to just quit by others, said something to the effect (after he decided to sign on to keep fighting) - "We can't all leave him. What if he leaves us? What will we do? I won't desert him."
America must not "leave" this President. If we do, he will not be faulted for just turning his back on it all and walking out back to Texas. This is what the Demoncreeps want. The terrorists want him dead.
America needs this man. And he needs the support of his fellow citizens.
Any who are working to undermine that support are, in my opinion, working for the enemy and should be treated as such.
Very well said!
"Now, he is proud as a peacock for serving under President Bush. And I feel more secure under Bush than 'the other guy.'
Thank him for staying in - for not giving up - and we-millions of his grateful fellow citizens - join him in appreciating, loving, being proud of, and wanting to support this Commander-In-Chief!
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