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THE LIBERAL CAPITULATION CARD REPLAYED
By Edward L. Daley
December 13, 2003
In a policy memo released several days ago, and available through the Pentagon's Project Management Office, Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz stated that the U.S. government will refuse companies from any country that did not support the war in Iraq the privilege of bidding on the nearly $19 billion in Iraqi reconstruction contracts now on the table. This, of course, will exclude nations such as France, Germany and Russia from profiting in any major respect from participation in Iraq's reconstruction efforts in the foreseeable future. The logic is not only easy to understand, but unquestionably fair in the minds of people who don't hate America, or have some election-year anti-Bush ax to grind.
To use a poker metaphor, if you don't ante up, you get dealt out of the hand. That's all there is to it. Even if you've been totally opposed to the war in Iraq from the start, you cannot not logically conclude that the very countries who did everything in their power to stop it from happening are now somehow entitled to reap the rewards of liberation achieved with the blood, sweat and tears of United States' military personnel and their allies over the past 10 months. To even suggest such is an affront to common sense and, more importantly, a direct insult to the memory of all the soldiers who've given their lives fighting in defense of their homelands and for the liberty of the Iraqi people.
Time and again we've been confronted by leftist politicians the world over telling us that our President is responsible for the break-down in international relations which have occurred since well before the invasion of Iraq commenced. The invectives which have been hurled at Mr. Bush in this country alone are as contemptible and un-called for as any I've heard coming from the fledgling-E.U. nations or those of the former Soviet Union. Just the other day, presidential candidate John F. Kerry remarked about our new reconstruction policy during a televised debate, saying "I can't think of anything dumber or more insulting or more inviting to the disdain of countries and potential failure of our policy."
Inviting of disdain? Where has this guy been? We get nothing BUT disdain from our so-called allies, regardless of what we do. Haven't you heard, Senator, the U.S. is always wrong! In the eyes of the leaders of most of the world's governments, the United States is a nation of reactionaries, war-mongers and imperialist. I expect those blow-hards to behave with arrogance and scorn toward the current administration, but when I hear the same sort of rhetoric coming from one of our own Senators, my stomach starts doing the Macarena.
I guess it doesn't matter to Mr. Kerry that if the French and like-minded people across the globe had had their way, Saddam Hussein would still be torturing and murdering innocent men, women and children by the tens of thousands. Being cooperative with the countries of the world which either started World War II or, through appeasement policies and/or initial complicity with those countries, allowed the greatest genocide in world history to come about, is far more important than protecting our own interests and freeing millions of people from tyranny... right John?
How convenient it is for the good Senator and the vast majority of Democrats in both houses of Congress to focus entirely on what they perceive to be a deficiency in the Bush administration's diplomatic prowess, while they intentionally ignore the deficits of courage, integrity and human decency evident in every country which has opposed our efforts since the invasion of Afghanistan? Why is it that this particular U.S. administration rates so high on their accountability scale for international disharmony while every America-hating governmental body in the world rates so low?
Was George Bush the one who decided that stopping a manifestly unbalanced mass murderer from threatening world security should take a back seat to maintaining trade (some of it arms trade) agreements with that very mass murderer? Is Bush the one who has repeatedly sided with Yasser Arafat following attacks by crazed suicide bombers on innocent Israelis? Did the President hijack four commercial airliners and crash them into buildings filled with thousands of helpless human beings on 09/11/01? You want to talk about disdain... what about OUR disdain Mr. Kerry? Don't the feelings and opinions of your own countrymen and women even appear on your radar screen?
I and the majority of U.S. citizens have sincere disdain for you and everyone like you, who thinks that blaming the Republican leadership of this country for the obvious faults of surrender monkeys like Jacques Chirac and Hans Blix is responsible behavior for an American Senator, especially at a time in which the world is being threatened with annihilation by terrorist cut-throats and Stalinist dictators. Some time back I heard a televangelist say that God loves everyone. Well maybe God loves you Mr. Kerry, but everybody I've talked to personally thinks you're an ass.
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