The Fate of a Nation
Let's take a moment to analyze Democratic Presidential hopeful John Kerry and the enduring crusade of the left to oust the one man who's protected our country from those who wish to destroy us.
As a Yale graduate and former Navy Swift Boat Officer during the Vietnam War, John Kerry first entered the American spotlight by testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971. "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" Kerry asked the committee in regard to the Vietnam War. Kerry became senator of Massachusetts in 1984 and was re-elected in 1990, 1996, and 2002.
With the election nearly five months away, a recent Gallup pole indicated a 47% approval rating for President Bush, while 49% disapprove. Roughly the same percentages can be found in the presidential race, with Kerry slightly ahead of Bush. This information suggests that the popular vote of the country is split down the middle, with a significant amount of voters teetering in the middle.
In a recent Time Magazine article, director of a documentary called "Uncovered: The War on Iraq" Robert Greenwald said the media may play a significant role in the upcoming election. "We've underestimated the audience's desire to see [political] material," said Greenwald, who's documentary criticized the Bush administration's foreign policy. "I don't think it's about hating the President. It's that politics has been brought home to the deepest part of ourselves."
Michael Moore's latest blockbuster documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, hopes to seesaw those wayward voters over to the left. "There's millions of you on the sidelines," explains Moore, "and I'm like the coach saying, 'Come on, bench, get in the game!'" Though Moore's anti-Bush message is clear in the film, even democrat's fear its repercussions.
"It is an exaggerated message from an imperfect messenger," said former John Kerry campaign manager Jim Jordan.
In fact, the film features a clip where Senate minority leader Tom Daschle urges other Senators to vote for war in Iraq after his lead.
Slate Columnist Christopher Hitchens called the film "a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of 'dissenting' bravery." Hitchens also points out several key points that he feels were deliberately left out of the film: the emerging Afghan army, Afghanistan is now a joint NATO responsibility and therefore under the protection of the broadest military alliance in history, it's constructed a new constitution and is preparing against great odds to hold a general election, and that at least a million and a half of the ravaged country's refugees have opted to return.
But aside from the facts left in and out of the documentary, more is at stake that has perhaps been purposely overlooked. Though Moore has taken swings at Bush and the democrats in the film, he fails to incorporated the fallacies of the democratic Presidential hopeful. Those viewers overpowered by the film's message and coerced to vote "anyone but Bush" may wish to reconsider.
Larry King recently asked Kerry in a CNN interview if he would want former President Bill Clinton to campaign for him.
"What American would not trade the economy we had in the 1990's, the fact that we were not at war, and young Americans were not deployed?" answered Kerry. Wake up Mr. Kerry. Under the Clinton Administration, our country suffered attacks by Osama bin Laden on our embassy's and the U.S.S Cole. They simply chose not to fight back.
Kerry's speeches reveal his fallacies. He preaches his objection to the deployment of young people, yet he complained not enough troops were sent to Afghanistan. Furthermore, the Democratic savior to President Bush voted for the war in Iraq. It's interesting how voters poised against President Bush will vote for Kerry simply because of the war notion. Bottom line: Kerry voted for the war liberals feel was unrighteous.
Beyond that, Kerry and the rest of the Democrats maintain that our global standing has never been lower and claim our country is more vulnerable than ever before. Let's look at the scoreboard since the 9/11 attacks: The Taliban in Afghanistan was eradicated, Saddam Hussein's Baathist despotism in Iraq was toppled, the nuclear weapons bazaar hosted by Pakistan and Libya has been terminated, and al Qaeda fugitives are captured daily.
As a matter of fact, Jay Rockefeller, the Senate Intelligence Committee's leading Democrat, made a convincing case for war when he took the floor in an October 2002 speech. "Saddam's existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq's enemies and his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East," he stated.
The truth is, John Kerry and the Democratic Party are fooling the American people into thinking the Bush Administration has not only accomplished nothing, but has been counterproductive. In a time where friends and family fight to protect our rights, John Kerry and the left would blind us against the accomplishments of the Bush Administration. Thus the choice should be clear: a President who's stance on issues fluctuates more than al Qaeda operatives on the grid or a President who's dedicated to our safety.
