Conservatives and Terrorism

From: FranklinJefferson (franklinjefferson_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: 30 Oct 2004 08:03:32 -0700

> : >> There is nothing about Kerry that a conservative admires.
> : >
> : >It looks to me like his argument is that electing Kerry would mean
> : >that the president and the congress would be from opposite parties,
> : >which would keep congress from raiding the treasury, and this would
> : >lead to fiscal responsibility, which is a conservative value.
>
> : Yes, and though I'm not a conservative, it's a view with which I'd
> : find some sympathy if we weren't at war.
>
> Right and Iraq had to have something to do with 9/11 or why else would we
> be there?

Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism. Bin Laden called Hussein an
apostate, which is about the worst thing an Islamic terrorist can call
somebody.

If the argument is that Bush at least is tough on terrorism... Bush
really dropped the ball on terrorism. He went into Afghanistan, where
Al Qaeda was hiding... and then just about when we were ready to roll
up Al Qaeda and shut them down for good, he forgot about going after
Al Qaeda, actually took troops OUT of Afghanistan, and decided to
invade Iraq. So, instead of finishing the job, he starts a new war in
a country where Al Qaeda didn't operate.

Given that Bush seems to be botching the war on terrorism, I'd give
Kerry the nod there, as well. He could hardly do worse.

Bush should have completed what he started, and he should have
rolled-up Al Qaeda as job number one, instead of leaving it to recruit
more terrorists.

Relevant Pages

  • NYT/Rich: Shuffling Off to Crawford, 2007 Edition
    ... incarcerated Qaeda thug Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to the ... President Bush on his Latin American tour. ... war on terror hasn't always been so fruitless. ... contentious Congressional restlessness about Iraq in 2006, ...
    (alt.politics.bush)
  • Hillary the Hun Gung-Ho for War with Iran
    ... Hillary the Hun Gung-Ho for War with Iran ... Hillary Prods Bush to Go After Iran ... the broad cloak of terrorism over Iraqis, ...
    (soc.culture.iraq)
  • Re: [OT] Why Bush?
    ... 'Terrorism — a tool for whose agenda?' ... al Qaeda is at war with us, ... President Clinton also discussed this threat with President Bush during ... Cheney's interest in Iraq and Iraqi oil goes back a long way. ...
    (alt.lang.asm)
  • Re: (off topic) Bush the sub-human trash -GRAHAM:What I Knew Before the Invasion
    ... Kerry voted to go to war. ... he was as convinced as Bush. ... >>>The war that was started to an election cycle will begin to end to one too. ... quit threatening the world and supporting terrorism. ...
    (soc.culture.thai)
  • Re: NBC: The Legacy of the Bush Administration?; by Victor Davis Hanson
    ... War of Error ... How Osama Bin Laden Beat George W. Bush ... Omar bin Laden, the fourth son of the Al Qaeda leader, cuts a striking ... terrorism by drawing jihadists to the country like moths to a flame-- ...
    (rec.music.artists.springsteen)