Victory or Death (Vanity)
Vanity | 3/14/2004 | tort_feasor
Posted on 03/14/2004 10:08:12 AM PST by tort_feasor
This November the people of the United States will make a choice between Victory and Death. My choice was made on September 11, 2001. My sister was working in One World Trade Center when Islamic Terrorists crashed a commercial Airliner 30 stories above her office. As she told me she heard a loud noise and then "papers and debris came floating past me." On that day I was blissfully unaware of the events for 45 minutes. I returned to my office to the words that cut off my breathing. "We are at war. The World Trade Center and Pentagon have been hit by planes." For over three hours, we waited for word on my sister's fate. I remebered calling frantically for news. Having my mother tell me that the south tower had collapsed and then that the North tower had collapsed also. When she did and we still had not heard from my sister I tried to face the inevitable loss. The anger and rage I have felt still burns. Thankfully just before noon, we heard from my sister's boyfriend. He had just talked to her and that she was going to a friend's house, unhurt. That weekend she relayed the horror of being caught in the World Trade Center. Of checking her office for anyone left behind. Slowly floor by floor descending the stairwellls. Seeing brave, tired firefighters climbing the same stairwells and sensing they were facing their doom. She related that as they neared the bottom, the stairwell was damaged and she had to cross a floor with no lights to reach another. She told of the water pooling on the steps and the seemingly endless trek downward. When she reached the exits, she told of the firefighters yelling to just run, don't look back. Minutes later One World Trade was added to the rubble pile of Ground Zero. Why do I recount this? I say this to everyone on Freerepublic that votes for John Kerry, or Libertarian or the Constitutional Party or even just stays home is voting against the man who is avenging 911 and is therefore implicitly supporting the very Islamic Terrorists that attempted to murder my sister along with the 50,000 other people in the World Trade Center that day. Now you may not like Bush for the Budget deficit. Fine I am not happy with the government spending but will Kerry be better? I don't think so. Is Medicare and the education department Unconstitutional? Under a strict reading yes, but voting along with 1 percent of all americans for the Consitutional Party isn't going to change the Supreme Court. And who will put better judges on The Courts,Bush or Kerry? Trust me I do respect the beliefs, opinions and right to express such ideas from those who have philosophical disagreements with the president. However, there are murdering madmen bent on doing to us what they almost did to my sister. We must Relect the president and wage unrelenting war until victory or elect Kerry and wait for our eventual defeat and death.
Sorry, but that was not "war," but a criminal terrorist attack. Terrorists are criminal gangs, analogous to the Mafia, Triads, Tongs, and other criminal gangs. You deal with them the same way: a law enforcement issue to be handled by the FBI, Interpol, etc.
After 9/11, we had the world's sympathy, including that of France and Russia and Germany. Yes, truly we did. Their law enforement agencies were ready to help us catch and/or stop the individual terrorists and gangs responisble. Instead, Bush lied us into a phony war against a nation unconnected to the terroists. Now we no longer have the world's sympathy and going after the real terrorists is made that much harder.
If anything, 9/11 makes it all the more necessary to replace Bush with Badnarik.