The Republican Red Scare
October 4th, 2004 4:22 pm

“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

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Charles
October 6th, 2004 8:47 am

Your whole point seems to be that the Republicans are using the fear of terrorism to fortify their position of brute aggression against supporters of terrorism.

Well, yeah.

September 11th changed the world. The preceding terrorist attacks against US interests were like pressurized gas into leaky pipes. Alas, when the big opportunity was presented, the explosion happenened… with little more than some box-cutters mixed with the spark of Islamic-fundamentalist terrorism.

The current adminstration just happened to be the men and women under oath when destiny met its time in history. I think we all felt anger, disbelief, sadness and the need for resolve after 9/11.

The Red Scare you are implying is like the Marine saying, “Not again. Not on my watch.” Why is that so hard to understand? Sadly enough, complacency has crept back into our lives, and when the next attack takes place, forgiveness of the American people will not be an option. Bushie and Co. would much rather field questions about mismanagement in Iraq (and second-guessing from a senator who has made a career out of second-guessing) than questions about why we allowed it to happen again.

This generation lost our collective virginity on 9/11, but we don’t have to lose our dignity by whoring ourselves out to the tranquilized global courts.

It is pointless, cowardly, and self-destructive to make a conspiracy out of statements regarding our nation’s security. You said it best when you stated that terrorists, “vote death and destruction to freedom and democracy.” So why expose your throat?