...and, he said, a Bush defeat would enable terror to spread more easily around the world. From CNN, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
"Any unbiased observer understands that attacks of international terrorist organizations in Iraq, especially nowadays, are targeted not only and not so much against the international coalition as against President Bush," Putin said."International terrorists have set as their goal inflicting the maximum damage to Bush, to prevent his election to a second term.
"If they succeed in doing that, they will celebrate a victory over America and over the entire anti-terror coalition," Putin said.
"In that case, this would give an additional impulse to international terrorists and to their activities, and could lead to the spread of terrorism to other parts of the world."
Amen to that! Putin knows because he has his own garbage (The Chechens)to deal with.
The world has a good example of what Bush did - maybe a fair guess what he might do in dealing with terrorists. Kerry was not in a position to take direct action in the past and no one knows what he will do in the future - not even him. It very well could be he would take a more hard line than Bush. It brings to my mind one time at my place of employment - we had a manager everyone wanted to have replaced. Someone put a little sign on the bulletin board - “Take care of our boss, the next one might be worse.” Everyone succeeded in having him replaced - sure enough the next one was worse. Having said that, I think regardless who is elected, the terrorists should be dealt with more harshly. One thing for sure, if Kerry is elected and he goes off on the babysitting PC kick, it will prove to the terrorists they have won a great victory. I would hope Kerry wouldn’t be that dumb.
Kerry doesn't believe. He only has a "plan," not a vision to solve the problem as does Bush. This enemy will duck and weave and we must be ready to move with him and against him. If we have to stick to a plan, that won't be possible.
I can't understand why Kerry didn't choose Jane Fonda as his running mate so they can both sit down at a peace rally with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda
and have a love-in.
kerry regards terrorism as a "nuisance" perhaps like prostitution or shoplifting.
Stuck in the pre 911 mindset he is surely unable to comprehend the horrors that threaten the US and the rest of the civilised world.
It was bad enough when Clinton, who it has to be admitted had a far higher intellect, invited the killer of Cleo Noel to the white house. (Carter having set the precedent ). Now we would see kerry inviting OBL for similar "talks".
Send Kerry back to oblivion on NOV2 or you will all regret it.
Unfortunately there are still too many American voters who believe that the UN is the solution to Islamic terror and that if only we can get the French and Germans on our side, they will also endure casualties and let us all leave Iraq. Kerry mentions his "plans," but he never reveals what they are. Are they his secret? Or hasn't he given them much thought, hoping that the UN, French and Germans will come up with how to end Islamic terror and Iraq, and the domestic ones will evolve by themselves?
Don't forgrt, we also have to watch the other races, Senate, House and everything that comes after those two.
Good example:
A Democratic Senate Candidate for Terror
By Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com | October 19, 2004
What is the issue the Palm Beach Post calls “almost the only topic” and the one that is “playing a pivotal” role in Florida’s battle for the U.S. Senate? It’s not health care, taxes, education, the economy, or even Iraq. Rather, the two principal candidates are engaged in a ferocious argument over Sami Al-Arian, an accused Islamist terrorist. Their battle teaches lessons for the future.
Al-Arian, a Palestinian immigrant, was a professor of engineering at the University of South Florida when in 1994, investigative journalist Steven Emerson aired a documentary establishing that, as president of the Islamic Committee for Palestine, Al-Arian headed the “primary support group in the United States for [Palestinian] Islamic Jihad,” a notorious terrorist group.
How did Al-Arian’s employer respond to this news? Betty Castor, then-president of USF and now the Democratic candidate for Senate, neither took steps to fire Al-Arian nor criticize him. Instead, she ordered a review of his dossier and only in 1996 placed him on non-disciplinary administrative leave with full pay – a form of paid vacation. When the U.S. government failed to indict him by 1998, she reinstated Al-Arian in his old teaching job and a year later she left USF.
(It was only after passage of the USA PATRIOT act, giving law enforcement access to intelligence information, that Al-Arian was finally in February 2003 indicted and arrested on terrorism charges.)
Mel Martinez, Castor’s Republican opponent, argues that Castor provided “weak leadership” in failing to protect her university from Islamic Jihad, that she fussed about academic freedom instead of grappling with a campus terrorist cell by firing the man he calls the “terrorism professor.”
Castor replies that union and university rules tied her hands. She then went on the offensive, digging up a picture of George W. Bush campaigning at a strawberry festival in Florida in 2000 – and who should be there, grinning with the future president, but Sami Al-Arian. Castor’s ad charges that “As chair of George Bush’s Florida campaign, Martinez allowed suspected terrorist Sami Al-Arian to campaign with Bush, years after Al-Arian was suspended by Betty Castor.”
This accusation looks powerful – except that three factual errors undermine it: Martinez was not chair but one of eight honorary co-chairmen; he did not “allow” the photograph to take place but had no knowledge of a spontaneous campaign event; and Castor gave Al-Arian a long vacation rather than suspend him (which is a disciplinary action).
More broadly, the Martinez campaign rightly points out that the two candidates have hardly equivalent records. “Mel Martinez never allowed Sami Al-Arian to do anything, unlike Betty Castor, who allowed Al-Arian to operate on her campus for six years.” Or in Rudy Giuliani’s more pungent formulation, Castor “couldn’t figure out how to fire an alleged terrorist.”
Lou Magill, the chairman of Martinez’s campaign in Seminole County took it over the top in an e-mail to supporters: “You and I are the front line on the war on terror because if Castor succeeds, we lose that war.”
Both candidates “are consumed with al-Arian,” notes Marc Caputo in the Miami Herald. But there the symmetry stops, for the public so far has penalized Castor and rewarded Martinez. It recognizes that for Martinez, Al-Arian was not an issue while Castor for six long years failed to handle the problem the professor presented.
According to a Mason-Dixon poll, Castor’s soft treatment of Al-Arian ranks as her “chief weakness.” A Martinez advisor reports that when asked, “Who do you think is better on terrorism?” voters favor Martinez 2-1. Martinez has also enjoyed a 20 percent increase since August of voters who view him favorably; Castor won just a 4 percent increase.
The “all Al-Arian all the time” campaign has several implications:
* As Islamist terrorism grows in menace and capabilities, how American politicians deal with it is becoming more central to their attractiveness as candidates and their stature as leaders.
* The U.S. voter rewards a tough policy toward those suspected of ties to terrorism.
* Both major parties must ignore those activists (Grover Norquist for the Republicans, James Zogby for the Democrats) who argue for courting the Islamist vote.
It is unclear who will win the tight Florida race; it is clear, however, that politicians who coddle terrorists have adopted a losing electoral strategy.
Daniel Pipes (www.DanielPipes.org) is director of the Middle East Forum and author of Miniatures (Transaction Publishers).
All the bias, pro-islamic bullshit from western media,and Putin sees staight through it all to the truth.
This man is an icon for our times, he knows what needs to be known, and will not back down to idiotic groups such as amnesty international, and the UN. I wish he were our PM or US president, the islamo-cancer would be removed in no time.
Does anyone know whats happening in response to Beslan yet. I know Russia is very cagey when it comes to international media, but surely we'll hear if a full scale attack on Chechnya (or somewhere in the ME, they may be searching for Basayev and Al qaeda) takes place.
CARTOONS ELIVS ISN'T DEAD!!
I can't believe how all you JWers have tak-en the Dan Rather to heart even the hip hop is for Bush!!
Have some Faith and if you don't have that load and lock!!
God Bless the countries that have Heros !! Pitty the countries who need them??
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH,WISDOM,SIGHT AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO VICTORY TO DEFEAT THE ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM OPEN THE EYES OF THE WORLD TO THEIT THREAT AND GIVE THEM BALLS TO STAND AND FIGHT THEM AMEN