From: http://antijohnkerry.blogspot.com/
E-mail from the opposition
Yes, as I have stated in the past, we welcome opposing views here. We are not
like those smelly liberals, who love free speech only when it agrees with them.
J.S. sends this along: (my retorts are in bold)
Honestly? You want Bush to be reelected? (Yes, very much so)
(This is not hate mail. Why not publish this on your
site so you can respond? Or do you only publish
pro-Bush accounts? (We publish anything and everything))
Let's look at Bush's terrorism credentials. Since 9/11, Bush's government has
failed to capture Osama bin Laden (So? Osama is either dead or living
in a cave.
Not much of a life now, is it?)or disassemble is [sic]organization. [True,
but a hell of a lot of them are with Allah right now, aren't they? Gotta start
somewhere.]What it has done is (1) push through the Patriot Act, [Thankfully
so. Have you even read the thing? Even Kerry has stopped bashing the Patriot
Act due to its
high approval outside the ACLU and blame-America first liberals. You need to
see the updated Dem talking points.) (2) invade Afghanistan, a good idea badly
managed, (Huh? How exactly is that?)then (3)invade Iraq, for reasons all that
have turned out to be false. (Oh, you mean the reasons supplied by Joe
Wilson
and Richard Clarke? What Bush said is no different that what Kerry, Clinton,
Gore, Kennedy, Levin, et al said before him. The only difference is that Bush
had the balls to do something about it. Go read the Iraq Liberation Act and the
1998 bin Laden indictment, for starters.)Indeed, it turns out Iraq had nothing
to do
with terrorism at all (Other than Abbas and some of the other terrorists
we found there after we invaded, right? When top al-Qaeda member al-Zarqawi was
injured
in Afghanistan, where did he go for treatment, and to have his leg amputated?
He went straight to Baghdad. Do you even know who he is? Also, where did the
1993 WTC bombers go to right after blowing up that truck. That's right. Baghdad.), and that Bush, Cheney and Rummy had been planning to invade Iraq all along,
merely hijacking 9/11 and the nation's grief for its benefit. (What benefit
is
that? Bush has taken nothing but grief for his determined response) As
Rummy's memo said regarding 9/11 days afterward: "How can we tie this
to SH [Saddam Hussein]?" (What memo is this? Send the link. I am sure you twisted
it somehow.
He probably asked if Iraq was involved, as he should have)And,
having declared war on a completely irrelevant country, with no WMD, with no
terrorists, Iraq has fallen into utter chaos, (Not so, pal. Read something
other
than the New York Times once in a while. My cousin is there and I get first-hand
accounts.)and has become a breeding ground - and a new recruitment area - for
terrorists. (Sure, because unlike unrealistic people like you, they are
fully aware that the battleground for their own survial is there. It isn't like
these
guys were docile goat herders before hand.) Bush's incompetence is destructive,
even beneficial to terrorists. 10/10 terrorists want him to stay, I promise.
(That is the latest spin on the undeniable truth that terrorists want Kerry to
win.)
Economically, then. The economy is growing (not in jobs, though), but ANY economy
would grow with the stimulus the U.S. government is providing, piling its own
cash into it, and creating soaring deficits. (Wait a second. I thought
this was the worst economy since Herbert Hoover? Now things are good, but they
would have
been good no matter who was in? Make up your mind.) Because of all the red ink,
the Admininstration is not only royally screwed, but the recovery, if not properly
managed from now, risks running out of air as interest rates rise. (Gee,
they have nowhere to go but up, considering that have been so damn low for the
past
few years.) Not healthy. (Yeah, and increasing taxes will fix everything, I'm
sure.)
And don't forget Enron, that massive corporate fraud run by Bush's professed
friend, "Kenny Boy" (as he calls him). What a leader. (Yeah,
a leader who thinks nothing of prosecuting his friend. Where else in the world
does that
happen? Perhaps you should take a look at the pictures of Clinton playing golf
with Lay. By the way, who was running the show when Enron was pulling their crap?
That's right, Clinton.) And Ashcroft settled with Microsoft, and now they are
performing exactly the same anticompetitive practices as before. What else?
Well, the constitution has been raped. Everything except the Second Amendment
has been waved on the grounds of national security. Sad that when under attack,
Bush's America would choose to sabotage its defining freedoms to "fight
terrorism" rather than reassert itself. (Oh please. Not one thing has changed
for anyone except potential terrorists. And stop listening to the ACLU. They
are the ones using scare tactics to help increase their membership.)
As for Europe. I can't say France has been the U.S.'s friend much in the past
few years anyway, but they were right when they said before Gulf War II that
changing the world required a lot more subtlety and respect than raw military
power (Gaddafi would disagree) could provide. (Of
course, because they don't
have any military power. Perhaps you should read "Of Paradise and Power" by
Robert Kagan to learn something. It is only about 100 pages, an easy read. And,
read "The French Betrayal of America" by Kenneth Timmerman too. Iraq
was France's cash cow for a long time, and for Chirac personally. Fuck France
and Fuck Chirac.) But that said, it was pointless for the Administration and
the Pentagon to insult Europe ("That's old Europe"), like a sulking
child, because it wouldn't do what America said. (Read Kagan)
What an utter mess. (If you were refering to the Democratci Party, you be 100%
correct)
I doubt Kerry will fix all the damage the Republicans in the White House have
created, but with some luck, the new Administration will stop wrecking things,
not
give tax cuts to the rich (Stop it.)during the biggest deficit in history, not
look out soley for corporate interests while the health system for normal people
is nonexistant (Yeah, if you love the service you get at the post office
and the DMV, just wait until the government controls health care. No thanks.
I'll
get my own.) and the education system nearing that. (Whose
fault is that? Bush has spent more money on education that anyone in history.
And,
who wrote most
of "No Child Left Behind?" Ted Kennedy did. I'll bet you didn't know
that.) The first, if not the last, step to improve the country is to take these
aristocrats out of government. (Oh, and Kerry is a man of the people? Sure he
is. Many of us went to Swiss boarding schools and married several insanely rich
women.)
Oh, one last thing. I read that letter on your site that says how Kerry or someone
rang them on their cell and they consider this intrusive. You do realize that
under the Patriot Act, government agencies can tap your phone or search your
house without a court order, without probable cause and without you even knowing?
Is that not intrusive? (Gee, other than that being pure bullshit, I don't
how to respond. Read Section 223 of the Patriot Act. It allows you to bring a
lawsuit
if your rights are violated under the Patriot Act. How many have lawsuits have
been brought forth by it? ZERO!) Vote Democrat - there's nothing better. (WOW!!
A stunning endorsement of your party!!)
Finally, I'd like to leave you with a quote from your site that speaks for its
own absurdity:
" As the Democratic party has drifted further and further left, many have
speculated that it was only a matter of time before they became indistinguishable
from our
old enemies the Communists." (Hmmm. Other than Kerry using a slogan from
the known-Communist Langston Hughes and Hillary Clinton, talking about taking
things from us for the common good, I wonder where we ever got an idea like that.)
My friend, for all that writing, you still were unable to come up with one solid
reason for anyone to vote for Kerry. It's all anti-Bush. I challenge you, and
every other Kerry supporter for that matter, to give us a one solid reason to
vote for Kerry on his own merits, without a single mention of Bush. I'd love
to hear it. Hell, I'd just like to know where he stands on Iraq. I still don't
know.