Five Reasons Democrats Should Love George W. Bush

Monte Kuligowski

For the sake of argument, we all can agree that in the context of Iraq, several countries, most notably the U.S., entered into war based on faulty intelligence. But that was only one factor. Regardless of whether Saddam presently had weapons of mass death, we know that the Baghdad butcher was a mass murderer, and we know that Hussein had been in flagrant violation of his terms of surrender, violating international law. The man deserved to be removed from office, did he not? So long as certain members of the U.N. Security Council were on the payroll, however, Hussein thought he was safe.

But he wasn’t safe, thanks to the real hero of the Democrat Party, George W. Bush. You see, the Democrats tell us that they hate political corruption. But their should-be-hero saw through the corruption of the U.N. and with a modest international coalition of 49 members, he ousted a murdering rapist and ended financial kickbacks to prominent U.N. members.

So reason number one the Democrats should love Bush is because he stood up to political corruption, both at the U.N. and in Iraq. Due to his strength of character and unfaltering commitment to the Democratic ideal of ending political corruption, he was willing to “go it alone.”

Reason number two for Democrats to love Bush is the fact that human rights violations have stopped. Liberals would have us believe that they are more sensitive than Republicans when it comes to international human rights, yet they irrationally despise the man who stopped the atrocities. Reason number three (a subset of number two) would be minority and ethnic rights. The fact that the Kurds are no longer being poisoned with chemical weapons and thrown into mass graves should cause Democrats great joy, not anger. (Question: Even if Saddam didn’t have plutonium, how many Kurds could he kill in a day with a pistol?) Democrats, they would have us believe, are the defenders of minority and ethnic rights. And, in their own minds, they are the undisputed champions of women’s rights. Reason number four to love Bush is that the Iraqi rape rooms no longer exist and Afghani women no longer have to veil their faces and endure beatings. Feminists and all liberal Democrats should happy, not sad.

And reason number five for Democrats to love Bush is that U.S. troops are killing al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq. Liberals should be up, not down in the dumps over the war on terror. After all, the Democrats want to convince Americans that they are serious about fighting terrorism – and can even do a better job of protecting us than Republicans.

Let’s go back to Bush’s announcement to the terrorists from the rubble of 9/11. Back then, everyone agreed with what would become known as the Bush doctrine. The president said in no uncertain terms that we will go after the terrorists; we will hunt them down and find them. And for the countries that harbor and support terrorists, we will draw no distinctions between them and the murdering Islamofascists they support.

But that’s all irrelevant, say liberal Democrats, because al-Qaeda wouldn’t be in Iraq but for the presence of the U.S. military. Al-Qaeda had no connections to Iraq prior to the war, they insist. Okay. But they are there now. Democrats apparently agree that we should hunt down terrorists, searching the globe, looking under every rock and in every cave, but if the terrorists happen to come to our military, that’s a bad thing. For liberal, terrorist-appeasing Democrats, we should hunt them down! – so long as we don’t actually find them.

The president can’t even talk about 9/11 and fighting terrorists these days without being accused of “politicizing 9/11.” That’s a sensitive subject to Democrats when they have no real plan to fight terrorism. But how, I might ask, could the president of the United States speak about 9/11 without expressing his ongoing commitment to pursuing the murdering Islamic terrorists?

I suppose a Democrat-sanctioned speech about 9/11 would involve the president remembering the dead while criticizing and blaming America for terrorism.

Of course, liberal Democrats don’t love, like or even mildly approve of Bush because, regardless of what has been accomplished, the president, like most Americans, sees terrorism as a life and death contest between good and evil. That kind of thinking will never make sense, however, as long as you believe your own country is fundamentally evil.

©2006 Monte Kuligowski

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Monte is an attorney who writes on topics of cultural, religious and legal interest

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