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Friday, August 13th, 2004The Blogroll for Bush now has more than 800 blogs…
God Bless America
Tuesday, August 10th, 2004Other things restore your faith:
Citing concerns about terrorists crossing the nation’s land borders, the Department of Homeland Security announced today that it planned to give border patrol agents sweeping new powers to deport illegal aliens from the frontiers abutting Mexico and Canada without providing the aliens the opportunity to make their case before an immigration judge.
BRING. IT. ON!
John Kerry Still Would Have Voted For The War, Before He Voted Against Funding For Our Troops
Monday, August 9th, 2004John Kerry Still Would Have Voted For The War, Before He Voted Against Funding For Our Troops
Does it get any stranger than that?
Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said on Monday he would have voted for the congressional resolution authorizing force against Iraq even if he had known then no weapons of mass destruction would be found.
Taking up a challenge from President Bush, whom he will face in the Nov. 2 election, the Massachusetts senator said: “I’ll answer it directly. Yes, I would have voted for the authority. I believe it is the right authority for a president to have but I would have used that authority effectively.”
So there you have it, Kerry, with the benefit of hindsight said he’d have voted to give President Bush the authority to use force against Iraq.
But what does that say about his vote against funding our troops who are currently serving in Iraq?
I find this disturbing because John Kerry still voted against funding our troops who are fighting in Iraq.
John Kerry, who seems to be getting a free pass on this particular issue opted to “challenge” Bush to answer some questions, including “why he rushed to war,” “why he used faulty intelligence,” “why he mislead Americans about how he would go to war” and “why he had not brought other countries to the table.”
I’d like to know why John Kerry thinks that we “rushed to war” when he spent 14 years in the Senate warning our country about Saddam Hussein.
I’d like to know why in hindsight he can still say he’d vote for the use of force against Iraq and yet criticize Bush acting on the findings of the intelligence given to him.
I’d like to know why Kerry, who spent eight years on the Senate Intelligence Committee, can criticize President Bush for acting on “faulty intelligence” when Kerry has made a habit of voting to cut intelligence funding – even after the WTC bombings of 1993.
I’d like to know why after 14 years of warning us about Saddam Hussein’s regime why Bush was “rushing” rather than John Kerry was “stalling” on Iraq.
I’d like to know why a coalition of nearly 50 countries is unilateral without the permission of France, Germany, and Russia.
John Kerry may have given an answer, but his answer only brings up a lot more questions.
UPDATE: I got ahead of myself and didn’t realize that Kerry actually did NOT answer the question Bush challenged him to answer. Details at Blogs For Bush.
Why Did John Kerry Go To Vietnam?
Monday, August 9th, 2004John Kerry never ceases to remind us of his service in Vietnam… he even likes to highlight that he “volunteered” to go, as we can see on his website:
As he was about to graduate from Yale, John Kerry volunteered to serve in Vietnam - because, as he later said, “it was the right thing to do.” He believed that because he had had a lot of privileges in life - for example, attending a great university like Yale - he had a responsibility to give something back to his country.
Fellow RNC credentialed blogger, Scott of Slant Point has brought my attention to a Kerry quote from 1986 in the Boston Globe, discussing his “volunteering” to serve:
“I didn’t really want to get involved in the war,” Kerry said in a little-noticed contribution to a book of Vietnam reminiscences published in 1986. “When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that’s what I thought I was going to be doing.”
So here we have presidential candidate Kerry saying “he had a responsibility to give something back to his country,” and freshmen senator Kerry saying “I didn’t really want to get involved in the war.” Interesting contrast isn’t it?
So which do you think is the more genuine sentiment?
Interview on KSBN
Sunday, August 8th, 2004This is my interview on the Stephanie Sandlin Show (KSBN - Spokane, WA) on August 4, 2004.
What The F**K?
Saturday, August 7th, 2004When 13 Democratic members of the U.S. Congress asked United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to send election monitors to the U.S. this fall, the move outraged many Republicans and other proponents of national sovereignty.
When those same 13 Democratic members of Congress were turned down by Annan, they took their request to Secretary of State Colin Powell – again to the shock of many Republicans and those who warn about foreign entanglements.
This is bull sh*t.
Bush Haters Wrapping Themselves In The Flag
Saturday, August 7th, 2004You hear often accusations from the left that Republicans and George W. Bush “wrap themselves in the flag” or something along those lines, most recently we hear it from John Kerry:
[John Kerry] accused Bush and his team of “wrapping themselves in the flag and shutting their eyes and ears to the truth,” declaring: “We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.”
This kind of stupidity by Kerry and the Democrats is really annoying. You know why? During the entire Democrat primary season we got bombarded with various messages implying that removing Bush was a form of patriotism. To this day, liberals continue pushing that theme. I’ve seen bumpers like “Vote Patriotic, Dump Bush” or some variation of that.
So it’s okay for liberal/Democrat to wrap himself in the flag but not for a Republican?
Today, I was reminded of this hypocrisy by a Letter to the Editor in a local paper, titled “True Patriots Will Vote For Kerry”, which was concluded with this paragraph:
I love our country, honor those who serve it, and accept it as true that the most patriotic thing Americans can do is deny Bush four more years in office.
Liberals do not own the flag any more than Republicans. It is nevertheless curious to me how liberals are so desperate to wrap themselves (and their causes) with the flag - the same flag they are hell bent on having the right to burn.
John Kerry’s “Sensitive” War On Terror
Friday, August 6th, 2004John Kerry in speech today at the 2004 UNITY Conference gave us a picture of what kind of a war on terror he would “fight.”
“I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history.”
Sensitive? Does Kerry not want to offend our enemies? The same enemies that want to destroy us? Does Kerry want to be more mindful of the desires of France, Germany and Russia before we consider our national security? What kind of a war on terror is that? John Kerry may want to fight a politically correct war on terror, but I want to win the war on terror, and so does George W. Bush. You don’t defeat your enemies by appeasing them. You can’t defend your country only after getting a permission slip from your “allies.”
George W. Bush understands that. John Kerry doesn’t.
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