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Democrats: We Should Be Attacked First

By Matt Margolis | August 14, 2003

Just whose side are the Democrats on? Everyday I wonder if Saddam Hussein will be the running mate of whoever wins the Democratic Presidential nomination. The Democrats have continually advocated the weakening of our military and impotence of homeland security.

Democrats are having some problems with the preemptive strike doctrine (when a Republican is in office) and are now criticizing Bush yet again.

Barbara Lee-nient-On-Terrorism, Congresswoman from California said “I am confident that, when we have that debate and investigation, more people will realize that the use of military force as a first-strike option is a dangerous precedent that can be used by other countries, including nuclear powers.�

What wonderful lip service to the anti-Republican-war liberals out there. Of course, there is no logic behind that statement. She clearly make no effort to suggest that other world nuclear powers out there won�t use nuclear weapons� so what she�s saying is better they strike us first than vice-versa. Apparently she�s introduced a bill with 24 cosponsors, which, if passed, would �disavow the preemptive doctrine.�

And they wonder why they lost so badly in November of 2002. What they are saying to other countries is �Hey, we won�t attack you even when you�re asking for it, so why don�t you launch a few nukes our way…�

“That is not a world we want to live in and not an example we want to set,” Lee told Foxnews.com in an e-mail.

Excuse me, but I don�t want to live in a world were rogue nations get the go ahead to attack us first because they�ll be comfortable knowing we won�t go after them until they�ve hit us. Great plan Barbara!

Lee said the current controversy over whether the White House provided faulty evidence to go to war with Iraq is just one reason why a first-strike doctrine often can backfire.

Oh give me a break! Is that all she can say? I�m sorry, but I�d take the word of questionable intelligence over waiting around for us to be attacked before we do anything.

But experts say first-strike is a good policy to have on hand, especially in the war on terror.

“I think that if you have enemies in this world and they believe you’d never pre-empt them, that could be a bad thing,” said Mark Burgess, a research analyst with the Center for Defense Information. “I think it’s a good tool to have. I think it’s not a good tool to have if it’s the only tool in your chest.”

Exactly! But Barbara Lee-nient-On-Terrorism thinks she�s smarter than the experts on this one. She clearly understands nothing about fighting the War on Terror. She wants our enemies to be able to fully mobilize and strike us before we take action, rather than letting us dismantle them before they become a threat�

As Bush said a year ago, “We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.”

Liberals can argue in all directions about whether or not there are/were WMDs in Iraq � and they can live under the liberal utopian idea that there were no WMDs, but this kind of policy only promotes the idea that we should trust people like Saddam Hussein on their word.

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz probably said it best:

“These are people who operate in the shadows, with a great deal of secrecy, and a great deal of false information planted all over the place� I think the lesson of 9/11 is that, if you’re not prepared to act on the basis of murky intelligence, then you’re going to have to act after the fact. And after the fact now means after horrendous things have happened to this country.”

Perhaps Barbara Lee-nient-On-Terrorism thinks we should we trust Al Qaeda not to hit us again just because it�s been almost two years since September 11, 2001 and they haven�t hit us since?

This is really irritating. Liberals are doing whatever they can to weaken this country. This bill that wants to abandon the preemptive strike doctrine is never going to pass. Thank God. I don’t want liberal politics to put millions of lives in jeopardy.