John Kerry's Retroactive Campaign Promises
- From: shogun@xxxxxxxxx (shogun)
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:33:19 GMT
More of John Kerry's Retroactive Campaign Promises
By Ann Coulter
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 27, 2006
On Sunday, John Kerry said of Israel's war against Hezbollah, "If I was
president, this wouldn't have happened," adding, "we have to destroy
Hezbollah."
But wait a minute ? Hezbollah didn't attack us on 9/11! Wouldn't fighting
Hezbollah distract us from the urgent task of finding Osama bin Laden?
Democrats can't come out and admit that they refuse to fight any war in
defense of America, so they utter the "Where's Osama?" incantation to pretend
that they'd be doing something. To wit: dedicating the entire resources of the
U.S. military to locating Osama bin Laden.
Thus, in the third presidential debate, Kerry complained about the cost of the
war in Iraq, saying the war was "the result of this president taking his eye
off of Osama bin Laden."
After making the capture of Osama bin Laden their sole objective in the war on
terrorism, now Democrats expect us to believe they would have been fighting
every other Muslim jihadist on the planet like mad ? just not one of the main
sponsors of Islamic terrorism, Saddam Hussein. But they'd be merciless with
every other mass-murdering, Islamic, terror-sponsoring lunatic.
Israel's recent tussle with Hezbollah reminds us how absurd the Democrats'
fixation on Osama is. America has been under attack from Muslim extremists for
nearly 30 years. Not just al-Qaida and certainly not just Osama bin Laden.
Here's the highlights reel for anyone still voting for the Democrats:
* November 1979: Muslim extremists (Iranian variety) seized the U.S.
embassy in Iran and held 52 American hostages for 444 days, following Democrat
Jimmy Carter's masterful foreign policy granting Islamic fanaticism its first
real foothold in the Middle East.
* 1982: Muslim extremists (mostly Hezbollah) began a nearly decade-long
habit of taking Americans and Europeans hostage in Lebanon, killing William
Buckley and holding Terry Anderson for six and a half years.
* April 1983: Muslim extremists (Islamic Jihad or possibly Hezbollah)
bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 16 Americans.
* October 1983: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) blew up the U.S. Marine
barracks at the Beirut airport, killing 241 Marines.
* December 1983: Muslim extremists (al-Dawa) blew up the U.S. Embassy in
Kuwait, killing five and injuring 80.
* September 1984: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) exploded a truck bomb at
the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 24 people, including two U.S.
servicemen.
* December 1984: Muslim extremists (probably Hezbollah) hijacked a Kuwait
Airways airplane, landed in Iran and demanded the release of the 17 members of
al-Dawa who had been arrested for the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait,
killing two Americans before the siege was over.
* June 14, 1985: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) hijacked TWA Flight 847 out
of Athens, diverting it to Beirut, taking the passengers hostage in return for
the release of the Kuwait 17 as well as another 700 prisoners held by Israel.
When their demands were not met, the Muslims shot U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean
Stethem and dumped his body on the tarmac.
* October 1985: Muslim extremists (Palestine Liberation Front backed by
Libya) seized an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, killing 69-year-old
American Leon Klinghoffer by shooting him and then tossing his body overboard.
* December 1985: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed airports in
Rome and Vienna, killing 20 people, including five Americans.
* April 1986: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed a discotheque
frequented by U.S. servicemen in West Berlin, injuring hundreds and killing
two, including a U.S. soldier.
* December 1988: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed Pan Am Flight
103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 on board and 11 on the ground.
(Then came an amazing, historic pause in Muslim extremists' relentless
war on America after Ronald Reagan won the Cold War by doing the opposite of
everything recommended by Democrats, depriving Islamic terrorists of their
Soviet sponsors. This confuses liberals because they don't understand the
concept of terror sponsors, whether it's the Soviet Union or Iraq.)
* February 1993: Muslim extremists (al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, possibly with
involvement of friendly rival al-Qaida) set off a bomb in the basement of the
World Trade Center, killing six and wounding more than 1,000.
* Spring 1993: Muslim extremists (al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, the Sudanese
Islamic Front and at least one member of Hamas) plot to blow up the Lincoln
and Holland tunnels, the U.N. complex and the FBI's lower Manhattan
headquarters.
* November 1995: Muslim extremists (possibly Iranian "Party of God")
explode a car bomb at U.S. military headquarters in Saudi Arabia, killing five
U.S. military servicemen.
* June 1996: Muslim extremists (13 Saudis and a Lebanese member of
Hezbollah, probably with involvement of al-Qaida) explode a truck bomb outside
the Khobar Towers military complex, killing 19 American servicemen and
injuring hundreds.
* August 1998: Muslim extremists (al-Qaida) explode truck bombs at U.S.
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 and injuring thousands.
* October 2000: Muslim extremists (al-Qaida) blow up the U.S. Navy
destroyer USS Cole, killing 17 U.S. sailors.
* Sept. 11, 2001: Muslim extremists (al-Qaida) hijack commercial aircraft
and fly planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in
Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 Americans.
America's war with Islamic fanaticism didn't start on 9/11, but it's going to
end with 9/11 ? as long as Americans aren't foolish enough ever to put a
Democrat in the White House.
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