“Terrorists are going to throw everything they can between now and the election to try and elect Kerry.” Utah Senator Orin Hatch, September 21, 2004.

“Terrorists in Iraq are trying to influence the election against President Bush.” Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage. September 20, 2004.

“If George Bush loses the election, Osama bin Laden wins the election.” Republican Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, in early 2004.

Those are just a few of the recent, and many, comments by Republican party members. They are not trying very hard to tie John Kerry to terror. Earlier this month Vice President Cheney suggested that if we “make the wrong choice” in November, “we’ll get hit again.”

This is a deflection tactic by the Republicans to keep voters from thinking about how bad it is right now. The unspoken words are, “if you think it’s bad now, it’ll only get worse if you vote for Kerry.”

Guess what, folks, it’s only going to get worse no matter who the next president is. Iraq is a steaming cesspool of insurgents that the US Army can’t defeat. We have lost control of three Iraqi cities that are now in control of local warlords. Last month when the Army attempted to retake Fallujah, they were met with such resistance, organized resistance, that they eventually stopped attacking and have since labeled it a “no-go” zone. “No-go” is another phrase for, “we’re staying the hell away.”

Here is the truth. The insurgents in Iraq, as well as Al-Queda, don’t care who the next president is. They don’t hate us because of our president, they hate us because we are America.

The Bush administration seems very forgetful. They seem to think that the only time we were attacked was on September 11 when he was President, so he must have some sort of moral authority on the issue. Yet they are forgetting the bombing of the USS Cole, and the two US embassy’s in Africa, and the World Trade Center… when Bill Clinton was president.

With that in mind, terrorist don’t vote Republican or Democrat with their bombs. They vote death and destruction to freedom and democracy