Bob Kerry Deserves Praise For Bucking the Moonbats

J.J. Jackson* | May 23, 2007 

Filed Under The Democrats

Believe it or not, I am always happy when I can praise an otherwise liberal Democrat for getting something right. Today’s praise goes to Senator Bob Kerry for bucking the moonbats that have the majority of his colleagues by the nuts. His piece on the Wall Street Journal’s opinionjournal.com is pretty much a stellar, sit down and shut up to the radical left.

At this year’s graduation celebration at The New School in New York, Iranian lawyer, human-rights activist and Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi delivered our commencement address. This brave woman, who has been imprisoned for her criticism of the Iranian government, had many good and wise things to say to our graduates, which earned their applause.But one applause line troubled me. Ms. Ebadi said: “Democracy cannot be imposed with military force.”What troubled me about this statement–a commonly heard criticism of U.S. involvement in Iraq–is that those who say such things seem to forget the good U.S. arms have done in imposing democracy on countries like Japan and Germany, or Bosnia more recently.

Watch out Mr. Kerry! You’re going to slaughter sacred cows that the moonbats don’t want slaughtered.

Let me restate the case for this Iraq war from the U.S. point of view. The U.S. led an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein because Iraq was rightly seen as a threat following Sept. 11, 2001. For two decades we had suffered attacks by radical Islamic groups but were lulled into a false sense of complacency because all previous attacks were “over there.” It was our nation and our people who had been identified by Osama bin Laden as the “head of the snake.” But suddenly Middle Eastern radicals had demonstrated extraordinary capacity to reach our shores.As for Saddam, he had refused to comply with numerous U.N. Security Council resolutions outlining specific requirements related to disclosure of his weapons programs. He could have complied with the Security Council resolutions with the greatest of ease. He chose not to because he was stealing and extorting billions of dollars from the U.N. Oil for Food program.

Well, at least he is being honest. The only problem that I have with Mr. Kerry on this piece is that he tries to stay in the good graces of as many lefties as he can by parroting the claim that the war was mismanaged by the incompetent Bush administration. But hey, we’ll take it one step at a time instead of simply realizing that war is not perfect and when all you get is reports on the imperfection of war you’ll naturally think badly of how the war was handled. Basically what Mr. Kerry is saying however is our soldiers and their leaders in the field were incompetent. Hopefully as history is written and the truth about how, even before the change of direction with the surge was undertaken, the vast majority of Iraq was peaceful Kerry will revise his remarks.


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2 Responses to “Bob Kerry Deserves Praise For Bucking the Moonbats”

  1. greatone on November 3rd, 2008 11:20 pm

    Bob kerry was always an idiot. he is liebermann like

  2. Ms. Peacock on November 4th, 2008 6:39 am

    No, Bob Kerry is far worse than Lieberman.

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