Posted on 08/06/2007 9:05:41 PM PDT by gpapa
Take it from this old KGB hand: The left is abetting America's enemies with its intemperate attacks on President Bush.
During last week's two-day summit, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown thanked President Bush for leading the global war on terror. Mr. Brown acknowledged "the debt the world owes to the U.S. for its leadership in this fight against international terrorism" and vowed to follow Winston Churchill's lead and make Britain's ties with America even stronger.
Mr. Brown's statements elicited anger from many of Mr. Bush's domestic detractors, who claim the president concocted the war on terror for personal gain. But as someone who escaped from communist Romania--with two death sentences on his head--in order to become a citizen of this great country, I have a hard time understanding why some of our top political leaders can dare in a time of war to call our commander in chief a "liar," a "deceiver" and a "fraud."
I spent decades scrutinizing the U.S. from Europe, and I learned that international respect for America is directly proportional to America's own respect for its president.
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“I spent decades scrutinizing the U.S. from Europe, and I learned that international respect for America is directly proportional to America’s own respect for its president.”
Profound and informative statement. Not, however, surprising.
“I spent decades scrutinizing the U.S. from Europe, and I learned that international respect for America is directly proportional to America’s own respect for its president.”
Would it then be a priority for America’s adversaries to covertly work to undermine America’s own respect for its President? Would funding radical organizations, infiltrating media outlets and seducing university faculty serve that goal?
“During the Vietnam War we (the Soviet-bloc intelligence community) spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America’s presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages.”
Gee, what American politician could have been “EFFING” stupid enough to fall for that line?
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