Ignoring the Law is Wrong too!

Not long after 19 terrorists murdered 2,700 Americans and about 200 nationals from other countries, the United States Senate passed the PATRIOT Act by a vote of 98 - 1. When Attorney General John Ashcroft abided by the Act he was vilified by the liberal extremists. No matter that 44 Senate Democrats voted for the Act.

About a year ago, Congress passed and the President signed a law that called for a national nuclear terrorism czar. As of today, President Bush has not nominated anyone willing to have her/his name smeared. Also today, the Boston Globe published a front page story acknowledging the President has not yet complied with an obligation.

Please note my notes to the author of the article.

My letter to the Boston Globe:

Editor,

I really thought the title of Mr. Bryan Bender's article on President Bush's reluctance to appoint a nuclear terrorism czar should have been "Bush Spares Qualified American Democratically-controlled Senate Smear Job (Bush fails to appoint a nuclear terror czar, June 22, A1)". (End of letter.)

Note to Mr. Bender: For a second, forget President Bush is a Republican and consider the accolades he'd be receiving if he was a Democrat and he orchestrated:
a. Libya's abandonment of its nuclear weapons program,
b. Iran's increased isolation from the rest of the world thus producing the election of Ali Larijanni to Parliament speaker (does the Globe forget its own editorial - A bell tolls for Ahmadinejad, June 2, A14?), and
c. through Six Nation agreements, putting North Korea on a glide path to nuclear disarmament,
as he has.

I've often cited the October 8, 2004 debate exchange between President Bush and Sen. Kerry to support that President Bush precisely addressed what was agreed to that night. How can the evidence suggest anything but?

If a President Kerry had accomplished to date what President Bush has done, "President" Kerry would be hailed as one of the greatest Presidents of all-time.

President Bush's accomplishments stand in stark contrast to the proliferation of the nuclear programs in Libya, Iran, North Korea, AND CHINA during the Clinton years. (End of notes to first letter.)

Below is my unpublished letter to the Boston Globe that I sent four days before the one year anniversary of Sen. Clinton's declaration of victory in Iraq. I asked the Globe to hold it until June 20. Obviously, the Boston Globe did not publish it.

Editor,

Since it is clear Sen. Hillary Clinton will insinuate herself in the 2008 Presidential campaign and as American soldiers are still fighting a war in Iraq, I think we should revisit Sen. Clinton's words from one year ago today at the Take Back America conference: “The American military succeeded” in Iraq, Sen. Clinton thundered.

More than 522 American military personnel have been killed in Iraq since Sen. Clinton's declaration of victory (icasualties.org).

President Bush never said "mission accomplished" and he is ridiculed incessantly.

Sen. Clinton did say the United States "succeeded" and except for this letter no one would know.

Liberal media bias anyone?

And, make no mistake, the bias has cost and will continue to cost American military personnel their lives as President Bush's job of prosecuting the war with more domestic and global support was made more difficult by cowardly partisan politicians and their friends in the liberal media who traffic in lies and distortions. (End of second letter.)