WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR GEORGE W. BUSH According to the common thought, many European people would like to see John Kerry as President of the United States of America; above all people who live in the so-called "Old Europe" - 60, 70 or 80 % of them - would vote for him. We do not think so, we know we are a strong minority in Italy - where we live in - and in Europe, but this is not a good reason to change our mind about next U.s. election, and now, at the end of this campaign, we would like to make you understand why we think you should vote for George W. Bush.
There is an idea that we suppose to be basic about our support to Bush, that is United States and Europe are members of the same kind of world, the Western World, and they can find causes of division between them, but they can not forget that they have the same values of freedom, security, democracy to support and to protect. We know that Islamic fundamentalism has attacked these values and our lives; and we think that Islamic fundamentalism has found his diabolical strength in Middle East, were freedom and individual rights are not respected, and where there are regimes which support terrorism and fundamentalism. So, we must destroy those regimes, avoid that Al Qaeda could be in possession of weapons of mass destruction and give the Middle East people freedom they deserve, and we think so above all because it is our interest - American and European interest.
We do not like people who say that terrorism is just a crime, and not a war that Al Qaeda, other organizations and their friends declared to us: unfortunately, Senator Kerry said that terrorism is like prostitution.
We do not think that mr. Chirac, or mr. Schroeder, or mr. Zapatero would support the elections in Iraq sending their troops, if John Kerry would win: we suppose that these European leaders have taken their final decision, and Sen. Kerry would risk to give them a power of veto they have not. Moreover, John Kerry considers allied countries like Britain, Italy, Poland, Australia, Japan etc. like they were not wise and useful friends of America that are fighting against terror.
Above all, we do not trust in JohnKerry: in 1990, he voted against the first Gulf War, a choice made by the Un Security Council, and not an unilateral decision; in 2003, he voted for the Iraqi war without any Un resolution, but later he voted against 87 billion $ financing reconstruction of Iraq; during his electoral campaign, he said that Us need to send more troops and to spend more money, explaining that he voted for the Iraqi reconstruction fund, voting against it: an inexplicable thing, according to us.
In other words, we think that John Kerry would not be a good President for the United States. But we have not taken our decision to support George Bush - even if we are not American citizens, and so we have not right of vote - only because we do not like his opponent. Really, we like Bush. We suppose he has taken the right decision, when he declared war to Afghanistan, in 2001, and to Iraq, in 2003. Now, there are 50 million people who are free, there are two fascist regimes which have been destroyed. There is no more an important Al Qaeda base of operations like Taliban Afghanistan, and we know that Bin Laden, mullah Omar, al Zawahiri and other Al Qaeda leaders can not sleep in a quiet and calm way. In Afghanistan, for the first time in its history, there is a President chosen by democratic election. Saddam Hussein will have a trial because of his crimes. In Iraq there have been local elections (for example in Nassiriah, where there are Italian troops), and next year there will be general election. Freedom and democracy are on the march.
Yes, we know that Iraqi campaign has not been perfect, but everybody can make a mistake, and the important thing is to understand it, and to act in order to embetter our own work (only God does not make mistakes). And we think the G.W. Bush has understood, and he is acting in the right way.
We have talked about foreign policy, because we live in Italy, and foreign policy is what we care about United States elections, but we also support ideas like a little government and a large economic freedom, because they are necessary conditions to have a richer society, and only a rich society can - and must - help peoplewho are not able to have a respectable way of life, with care and compassion.
So, please, these are the reasons why we ask you to vote for George W. Bush.
It is the right choice.
Oct. 30 - After months of the tightest presidential election contest in recent memory, a new NEWSWEEK poll suggests momentum may be moving toward President George W. Bush. As the bitter campaign enters its final days, against the eerie backdrop of a surprise appearance by Osama Bin Laden, Bush's lead is still within the poll's margin of error, but larger than last week. If the election were held today, 50 percent of likely voters would cast ballots for Bush and 44 percent for the Democrat, Sen. John Kerry. (Ralph Nader would receive 1 percent.) That compares to a Bush lead last week among likely voters of 48 percent to Kerry's 46 percent...
"Let me make this very clear: Americans will not be intimidated or influenced by an enemy of our country. I'm sure Sen. Kerry agrees with this. I also want to say to the American people that we are at war with these terrorists, and I am confident that we will prevail".
WASHINGTON - A U.S. Army officer came forward Friday to say a team from the 3rd Infantry Division took about 250 tons of munitions and other material from the Al-Qaqaa (search) arms-storage facility soon after Saddam Hussein's regime fell in April 2003...
The leading German newspaper Bild writes the reasons why President George W. Bush should be re-elected:
1. Bush has clear priorities. He sees the inhuman Islamic fundamentalism and the murderous mullahs as the largest danger for the Western world.
2. Bush has learned the lessons of history. Military strength, not pleasant talk, is the only thing that helps against violent fanatics. And with Bush - unlike with Kerry - there is no doubt about this.
3. Under Bush, the US, as a superpower, will continue to bear the financial, military and casualty burden in the fight against terrorism in a "holy war" which Islamic fanatics unilaterally declared. [It's ultimately about the cash-flow, Damen und Herren. -ed.]
4. Along with fighting terror and the terrorists, a re-elected Bush will do everything he can to prevent nuclear proliferation. That is especially true with regard to the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea.
5. Bush has learned that America can defeat every country in war, but needs allies in peace. Thus, his second term will be characterized by cooperation with international partners. But he will not depend on how Syria or Libya vote at the UN.
Three years ago, on the day that began as a beautiful September morning, 19 men and their sponsors carried out a brutal and devastating attack on our country, leaving 3,000 innocent men, women and children dead, including our loved ones. In those first agonizing hours, and for weeks and months afterward as we searched for word of their fate, we were aware that the shock and horror of that day was not ours alone. With a gratitude we could not yet express, we felt the strong and steady embrace of our fellow Americans. The words, "Never forget", defiantly written in dust or humbly penned on makeshift memorials, were also permanently etched in our hearts. We will never forget your strength, your courage and your endless generosity...
THE MYTH OF THE 'MISSING EXPLOSIVES': A SHAMELESS LIE
October 28, 2004 -- SHOULD the United Nations decide who be comes our president? Sen. John Kerry wouldn't mind. He's shamelessly promoting the lies that the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency is telling about Iraq.
A devious IAEA report suggests that 400 tons of explosives were spirited away by our enemies under the noses of our Keystone-Cops troops after the fall of Baghdad. The document just happened to be released in the closing days of our presidential election. Purely a coincidence, of course. Brought to you by those selfless U.N. bureaucrats who failed in Iraq and are now failing in Iran.
Since Kerry's willing to blame our troops for a scandal invented by America-haters, let's look at the story the military way, by the numbers...
GALLUP: Bush Solid in Florida; Iowa and Pennsylvania Still in Play
PRINCETON, NJ -- Three new CNN/USA Today/Gallup showdown state polls indicate President George W. Bush holds a solid lead over Sen. John Kerry in Florida, Bush holds a slim lead in Iowa, and Kerry holds a slim, but not statistically significant lead in Pennsylvania. This is the state of the race among likely voters in separate polls conducted between Oct. 21 and Oct 26...
According to Der Spiegel newsmagazine, Richard Holbrooke, expected to become Secretary of State if Kerry is elected, [...] would push for a greater European military presence in Iraq - German and French first of all.
Someone close to Kerry could please tell him what has said yesterday Canchellor Gerard Schroeder to the leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera: "NO SOLDIERS EVEN WITH KERRY". Please, we need your help in order to inform him: it seems pretty sure that the"Old Europe" will help him.
PS: Europeans really want Kerry for President. In fact a few days before the elections such a kind of declarion can be very useful: te get Bush reelected.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 - President Bush said in an interview this past weekend that he disagreed with the Republican Party platform opposing civil unions of same-sex couples and that the matter should be left up to the states.
Mr. Bush has previously said that states should be permitted to allow same-sex unions, even though White House officials have said he would not have endorsed such unions as governor of Texas. But Mr. Bush has never before made a point of so publicly disagreeing with his party's official position on the issue.
In an interview on Sunday with Charles Gibson, an anchor of "Good Morning America" on ABC, Mr. Bush said, "I don't think we should deny people rights to a civil union, a legal arrangement, if that's what a state chooses to do so." ABC, which broadcast part of the interview on Monday, is to broadcast the part about civil unions on Tuesday...
"We can take a chance in going back to where we were before Sept. 11, 2001, with someone who can't seem to make up his mind whether terrorism is serious or a nuisance" former New York Mayor, the Italian-American Rudy Giuliani, said.
GALLUP: Bush Retains Lead Among Likely Voters, Now 51% to 46%
PRINCETON, NJ -- President George W. Bush holds a slight, but statistically significant, lead over Sen. John Kerry, according to the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey. Among likely voters, Bush receives 51% support, while Kerry receives 46%. Among the larger group of registered voters, Bush's lead of two points (49% to 47%) is well within the poll's margin of error. Among both sets of voters, independent candidate Ralph Nader gets just 1% support...
U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq.
An investigation by The Washington Times reveals that while the candidate did talk for an unspecified period to at least a few members of the panel, no such meeting, as described by Mr. Kerry on a number of occasions over the past year, ever occurred...
Last March, John Kerry said: "I've met with foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly," he said. "But, boy, they look at you and say: 'You've got to win this. You've got to beat this guy. We need a new policy.' Things like that." (The Washington Times)
PLO's leader Yasser Arafat is one of them. "If [President] Bush wins, he said he would renew efforts to resume the peace process," PA foreign minister Nabil Shaath told the BBC in London. "However, with the staff that surrounds him and with his current opinions, it doesn''t look promising." (Crosswalk)
The Post this morning proudly urges the reelection of President George W. Bush.
There are many issues before the electorate, but none more im portant than the War on Terror. So let's be clear: America will be safer with George Bush in the White House.
Not totally safe; even the president concedes that.
But safer, and that's quite good enough for us.
On Sept. 11, 2001, he was a rock.
Since then, he has prosecuted the War on Terror with determination.
Not flawlessly, not by a long shot, but competently enough so that there has been no second attack on American soil - even though terrorists have struck in Bali and Beslan, Baghdad and Madrid...
Jacksonville, Florida. "The senator used to recognize that Saddam Hussein was a gathering threat who hated America. After all, he said so. [...] He used to recognize that Saddam was a state sponsor of terror with a history of pursuing and even using weapons of mass destruction. After all, he said so. He used to understand that Saddam was a major source of instability in the Middle East. After all, he said so [...]. And when he voted to authorize force, the senator must have recognized the nightmare scenario that terrorists might somehow access weapons of mass destruction. Senator Kerry seems to have forgotten all of that, as his position has evolved during the course of the campaign. You might call it election amnesia". From President Bush's speech.
DOWNTOWN - Cincinnati's headquarters for the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign was broken into overnight.
Money and a sign were taken from the office, on Seventh Street near Court Street. The thieves got in by breaking out a window...
Bush edges ahead in Iowa, vies in 'blue' states New polling shows Kerry locked in statistical tie with president in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
WASHINGTON - New poll data released Thursday suggest that President Bush is in a strong position to win one state that Al Gore carried in 2000, Iowa, and is putting pressure on Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry in six other states Gore won, with Pennsylvania's 21 electoral votes the biggest prize of those six.
In Iowa, the new MSNBC/Knight Ridder poll shows Bush with a 49-43 percent lead over Kerry, with six percent of voters undecided. Gore carried Iowa by 4,144 votes four years ago...
"For a guy who's been known derisively to the Bush crowd as the Breck girl," observes Shearer, vice presidential candidate John Edwards seems "way too interested in his hair." He tries to straighten it with his fingers. A makeup technician approaches with a comb, but the senator likes it just so and does the combing himself. He signals he's ready for hair spray by closing his eyes expectantly, like a child. Then Edwards and the technician straighten a little more with their fingers. Please don't tell me that thing in his hand is a compact. Oh, dear. It is.
DRUDGE/ DNC ELECTION MANUAL: CHARGE VOTER INTIMIDATION, EVEN IF NONE EXISTS
The Kerry/Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee are advising election operatives to declare voter intimidation - even if none exists, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.
A 66-page mobilization plan to be issued by the Kerry/Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee states: "If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a 'pre-emptive strike.'
The provocative Dem battle plan is to be distributed in dozens of states, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. One top DNC official confirmed the manual's authenticity, but claimed the notion of crying wolf on any voter intimidation is "absurd."
"We all know the Republicans are going to try to steal the election by scaring people and confusing people," the top DNC source explained.
With the presidential election 19 days away, President Bush and John Kerry took their final shots in a face-to-face matchup Wednesday night that focused on domestic issues including abortion, gay marriage and the economy as well as the broader theme of national security.
Bush, Kerry to face off over health care, environment and homeland security .
The debate, held at Arizona State University in Tempe, takes place at 9 p.m. EDT. Bush arrived in Phoenix on Tuesday and said he was "warming up" for the final showdown.
"I'm looking forward to tomorrow night. It's a chance to point out major differences," Bush said, in a speech that spoke mainly of his policies but also took jabs at Kerry over terrorism, health care and energy.
Kerry Compares War on Terror to Prostitution, Illegal Gambling
Sen. John F. Kerry in an interview with Sunday's New York Times Magazine said the Sept. 11 attacks "didn't change me much at all"; and said he hopes the country will return to the days when terrorism was "just a nuisance," the same way that prostitution and illegal gambling are a nuisance.
KERRY: SADDAM WAS A THREAT, SADDAM WAS NOT A THREAT
During the last presidential debate in Missouri, John Kerry said: "Well, let me tell you straight up: I've never changed my mind about Iraq. I do believe Saddam Hussein was a threat. I always believed he was a threat. Believed it in 1998 when Clinton was president. I wanted to give Clinton the power to use force if necessary."
Later, in the same debate, talking about Iran: "It's a threat that has grown while the president has been preoccupied with Iraq, where there wasn't a threat".
BUSH: Let me answer what he just said, about around the world.
You tell Tony Blair we're going alone. Tell Tony Blair we're going alone.
Tell Silvio Berlusconi we're going alone.
Tell Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland we're going alone.
There are 30 countries there. It denigrates an alliance to say we're going alone, to discount their sacrifices. You cannot lead an alliance if you say, you know, you're going alone. And people listen. They're sacrificing with us.
DEBATE - Statement from Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Chairman Governor Marc Racicot
ST. LOUIS, MO -- Today, Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Chairman Governor Marc Racicot made the following statement:
"President Bush won a decisive victory tonight in St. Louis. John Kerry has a 20 year record of weakening national security and supporting bigger government, higher taxes and higher health care costs. President Bush was on the offensive tonight against John Kerry's tired, political rhetoric.
"The President was in command of the issues, the facts, and the stage, and clearly won on style and substance. He exposed and dismantled Kerry's liberal record of voting against intelligence funding, against our troops, against medical liability reform and against tax relief for working families.
"As the President told Senator Kerry, "You can run but you can't hide."
St. LOUIS - With only 25 days remaining until Election Day and with many national polls showing the candidates in a statistical dead heat, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry will debate for the second time Friday night - this time taking questions from a selected audience of voters.
October 7, 2004--A Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 Likely Voters conducted Wednesday night found that 43% believe Vice President Dick Cheney did better than Senator John Edwards in their Vice Presidential debate. Thirty-seven percent (37%) took the opposite view and believe Edwards won the debate...
An unknown suspect fired several shots into the Bearden office of the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign Tuesday morning.
The headquarters are located at 4618 Kingston Pike, next to Noveau Classics and in the same shopping plaza as Long's Drugstore.
According to Knoxville Police Department (KPD) officers on the scene Tuesday, it is believed that the two separate shots were fired from a car sometime between 6:30 am and 7:15 am. ...
After covering every possible position on Iraqi war, Mr. Kerry now says: "The
president always has the right and always has had the right for pre-emptive
strike." He pledged never to cede "the right to pre-empt in any way
necessary'' to protect the U.S.
Interesting. Where's the global test? Did Chirac suggest such position? And
moreover, why voters have to choose the neocons' democratic copy, made up for
campaign reasons, while they have the original one?
"... what did Dem presidential contender John Kerry take out of his jacket as he approached the stage [with his back to the auditorium's audience]? What did Kerry place on the podium?
Video replays of the Kerry maneuver played all weekend long on the internet.
John Kerry said: "I've had an extraordinary experience of watching up close and personal that transition in Russia, because I was there right after the transformation. And I was probably one of the first senators, along with Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire, a former senator, go down into the KGB underneath Treblinka Square and see reams of files with names in them".
Can Democrats think and write for themselves? According to following The Washington Post Editorial they can't:
We received the following letter from a woman in Yonkers, N.Y.: "Dear editor: This debate made it clear: John Kerry is a leader we can trust to tell us the truth when it comes to our nation's security. George Bush has had his chance; I'm ready for a new direction." Cogent, succinct, personal -- everything we look for in a letter. So why are we writing about it here, instead of publishing it in the columns to the right? Unfortunately, the letter, perfect in every other way, arrived in our electronic in-box Thursday afternoon, four hours and 14 minutes before debate moderator Jim Lehrer posed his first question. ...
Continue here (The Washington Post. Thanks to Camillo for reporting it)
Kerry, Captive An anatomy of flip-flopping by V.D. Hanson
There is a logic to Senator Kerry's flip-flopping that transcends his political opportunism: He is simply a captive of the pulse of the battlefield, without any steady vision or historical sense that might put the carnage of the day into some larger tactical, strategic, or political framework. As was true over a decade ago during Gulf War I, he contradicts himself when good news from the front makes his prior antiwar stance look either timid or foolhardy. But when the casualty rate rises or CNN is particularly vivid in airing the latest beheading or car bomb he returns to his shrill pessimism and denounces the war...
Sunday, October 31, 2004
"Let me make this very clear: Americans will not be intimidated or influenced by an enemy of our country. I'm sure Sen. Kerry agrees with this. I also want to say to the American people that we are at war with these terrorists, and I am confident that we will prevail".
The leading German newspaper Bild writes the reasons why President George W. Bush should be re-elected:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 - President Bush said in an interview this past weekend that he disagreed with the Republican Party platform opposing civil unions of same-sex couples and that the matter should be left up to the states.
U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said yesterday, "We hope and believe that the next President will again be Bush."
October 7, 2004--A Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 Likely Voters conducted Wednesday night found that 43% believe Vice President Dick Cheney did better than Senator John Edwards in their Vice Presidential debate. Thirty-seven percent (37%) took the opposite view and believe Edwards won the debate...
There is a logic to Senator Kerry's flip-flopping that transcends his political opportunism: He is simply a captive of the pulse of the battlefield, without any steady vision or historical sense that might put the carnage of the day into some larger tactical, strategic, or political framework. As was true over a decade ago during Gulf War I, he contradicts himself when good news from the front makes his prior antiwar stance look either timid or foolhardy. But when the casualty rate rises or CNN is particularly vivid in airing the latest beheading or car bomb he returns to his shrill pessimism and denounces the war...
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