The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest

Vol: 34 Issue: 30 - Friday, July 30, 2004

Special Report: Which America Should We Love Best?
by Jack Kinsella

For the first time in my life, I've had just about all the politics that I
can stand, and I am pretty sure you feel almost the same way.

I would rather comment on almost anything that the Democratic National
Convention, but I can't think of anything more important to understanding
the Big Picture for the last days than who will lead America for the next
four years.

And Kerry's speech provided a wealth of insight into what his America
would look like.

John Kerry's acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination for President
opened with Kerry delivering a passable military salute to his audience,
saying, "My name is John Kerry, and I am reporting for duty."

He then launched into his speech.  When it was over, it occurred to me
that the phrase, "My name is John Kerry" was the only true statement
contained in it.

It was more than a little ironic, since, so far, the Kerry campaign has
built its entire platform around accusing the Bush administration of
lying.

At the risk of repeating myself, I am NOT enamored of George Bush.  He has
disappointed me on a number of levels, as he has no doubt disappointed
you. But I love America more than I hate George Bush.  And John Kerry's
vision is of two Americas -- he says so in his own campaign hand-outs.

I'm not sure which America I am supposed to love best. Can anybody help me
out with this one?  While you're at it, can somebody please email me with
a list of George Bush's lies?

Because if someone knowingly, falsely accuses someone else as a liar, by
definition, he indicts himself.

So far, every single alleged lie about the Iraq war has been examined by a
panel of five Republicans and five Democrats.

After having examined more than two million supporting documents,  dozens
of witnesses, and reams of transcripts, they unanimously concluded that
the administration relied on flawed intelligence, but that the
administration acted appropriately, given the intelligence they had.

They also concluded that every other politician, Republican, Democrat,
French, German, American, Australian, Israeli or Egyptian, all had similar
intelligence.

There's no need to trot out the statements made prior to the Iraq War by
Kerry, Daschle, Edwards, Kennedy, etc., all of whom concluded exactly the
same thing the Bush administration did and based on the SAME intelligence
reports.

The 9/11 Commission examined them all, and exonerated the current
administration.  It determined the administration acted in 'good faith'
and did exactly what Kerry/Daschle/Edwards/Kennedy and the rest would have
done, if their own pre-war rhetoric is any guide.

So, we return  to the liars who lie by continuing to accuse the
administration of lying even after they KNOW their accusations are false.

For example, Kerry accused the Bush administration of sending our forces
into battle without the necessary equipment.  He droned, "You don't value
families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a
son or daughter in the service."

But both Kerry and his running mate, John Edwards, voted AGAINST the $87
billion funding package that would have paid for the body armor in the
first place. Families had to take up collections for body armor because of
Kerry and Company, not because the administration doesn't value families.
Liar.

Kerry told the convention, "We need to lead a global effort against
nuclear proliferation - to keep the most dangerous weapons in the world
out of the most dangerous hands in the world."

Liar. Isn't that exactly what Bush was doing in the conflict that Kerry
and his party's base now criticize so harshly?

The 9/11 Commission concluded that - contrary to the shrill gainsaying of
Kerry advisor Joe Wilson - Saddam Hussein had attempted to purchase
yellowcake uranium from Niger. In fact, according to the report, this is
one of the few claims about Saddam's WMD programs conclusively accepted by
 the Commission as being unequivocally true.

Ted Kennedy explained the difference between Kerry and Bush last week on
the Democrats' new favorite network, al-Jazeera. Last week, Teddy told the
terrorist-friendly network:

 "I am personally convinced that if John Kerry was president of the United
States during that time we never would have had an Iraq war. We never
would have gone to war." No wonder ten out of ten terrorists support John
Kerry.

Kerry told the convention-goers, "Let there be no mistake: I will never
hesitate to use force when it is required. Any attack will be met with a
swift and certain response."

Liar.  What if the UN won't let him?  Would he 'go it alone' and risk
'squandering America's good-will' like he says Bush did?

Note  that Kerry only vowed  to "protect the American people.from a threat
that was real and imminent.this is the only justification for going to
war."  How does one define 'real and imminent' in John Kerry's world?

The Twin Towers collapsed almost three years ago.  That was real.  The
same folks who attacked us then still want to attack us now. That is
justification.

And what WAS Saddam gonna do with that yellowcake uranium, anyway?

As the anybody-but-Bushers are quick to parrot, there was no other hard
evidence that Saddam was reconstituting his nuclear program.  But there is
plenty of evidence of pre-9/11 contact between Saddam Hussein's government
and al-Qaeda.

So, I repeat my question; how DOES one define 'real and imminent' in John
Kerry's world?  Liar.

That returns us to the view of the War on Terror as "primarily an
intelligence and law enforcement operation."

Translated, that means waiting for the terrorists to strike, appointing
them legal counsel, sentencing them to American prisons often more
luxurious than their homes, and occasionally launching blind retaliatory
raids against aspirin factories and empty tents.

"I will immediately reform the intelligence system," Kerry told them, "so
policy is guided by facts, and facts are never distorted by politics."
Liar.

The 9/11 Commission concluded President Bush had not distorted the facts
for political reasons; whatever mistakes were made happened long before
the intelligence reached the president's desk.

It is this kind of hysterical rhetoric that has destroyed President Bush's
(and America's) credibility and diminished his ability to stop nuclear
proliferation in the world's most dangerous hot spots: Iran and North
Korea.

Kerry used the phrase "middle class" eight times, while referring to
"terror" or "terrorism" only five.

He promised us nationalized health care, protectionism and
environmentalism. He vowed to increase funding for the failure known as
Head Start, shrink class sizes and increase social spending. He didn't say
where he'd get the increased funding from.  Another lie.

John Kerry's running mate, John Edwards, invented the slogan, "two
Americas"  but now warns against "narrow appeals that divide us." Liar.

Kerry will discuss national security when forced, but prefers his platform
of  redistributing America's wealth as being the nation's top priority.

Kerry thanked Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton by name "for teaching me and
testing me - but mostly, we say thank you for standing up for our country
and giving us the unity to move America forward."  (I can only hope
Kerry's lying there)

Consider: John Kerry learned umm, WHAT from Dennis Kucinich?  That US
troops are deliberately slaughtering Iraqi civilians, as Kucinich has
publicly charged?  And I am still trying to figure out what the 'Reverend'
Al Sharpton taught John Kerry about 'unity'. Does anybody else remember
the Tawana Brawley case? It makes you wonder what is going on in the minds
of almost half of Americans.

Perhaps nothing.

Kerry's campaign-opening speech outlined his vision for America.  It would
have been a wonderful speech, almost Clintonesque in its scope.  Except
for the 'war' thingy that Kerry the war hero doesn't quite seem to
understand.

Among the INVITED guests to the DNC Convention was that bastion of
unbiased truth, the al-Jazeera network.  In fact, the original plan was
for al-Jazeera to have an al-Jazeera sign, including its name and logo, as
part of the network's backdrop during photo shots from its skybox across
the FleetCenter.

At the last moment, Kerry campaign officials decided to remove the sign,
but not because al-Jazeera is an anti-American propaganda rag with ties to
al-Qaeda.  Nope, they took down the sign because they needed the space to
put up a 20-foot-long "JohnKerry.com" sign.  I'm NOT making this up!!!

"We needed that spot for our production," said Peggy Wilhide, a convention
spokeswoman.

"We're glad Al-Jazeera is here and that they have a skybox," Wilhide said.
"But the bottom line is we're not here to advertise for the media, we're
here to put on a convention."

Without the DNC to straighten things out, one might have suspected Kerry
took down the sign out of respect for the thousands of Americans killed by
the terrorists al-Jazeera regularly incites.  But by the DNC's own
admission, al-Jazeera is more than welcome, but John Kerry wanted more ad
space for himself.

Although many have feared terrorists would strike one of this summer's
political conventions, the Democratic Party allowed Jihad TV, a network
whose media roster occasionally includes terrorists, into a skybox
overlooking the entire Fleet Center.

From al-Jazeera's coverage, the terrorists back home were able to see the
party's attack on the War on Terrorism, especially in Jimmy Carter and Al
Sharpton's demagogic remarks.

John Kerry's America is best exemplified by his own words.

"I ask you to judge me by my record . . ." whereupon he bragged that he
"reached across the aisle to work with John McCain, to find the truth
about our POW's and missing in action, and to finally make peace with
Vietnam."

To this day, John Kerry holds a place of honor (and notably, John McCain
does not) in the Communist Vietnamese "War Crimes Museum" (AMERICAN war
crimes) -- not as a war criminal, but in recognition of his antiwar
activities that helped to 'end the war' (a euphemism for helping Vietnam
WIN the war).

As I said before, I love America more than I hate George Bush.  And
neither of John Kerry's two Americas look like the one America I've loved
since that day in 1969 when I took the Marine Corps oath to defend her
against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

I have seen the enemy, and it is Skerry.