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Dec 27, 2003 Old Howard’s speech was just too chock full of rhetoric to let me down. “The strength of our nation depends on electing a President who will fight for jobs, education and health care for all Americans.” Well, we are seeing quite a resurgence of the nation’s economy and suddenly, at 6 percent, the US unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in the first term of any President, Republican or Democrat in the last 30 years. President Bush signed a bill just this year was considered the largest Education Bill in many years. I believe Senator (Swimmer) Kennedy took credit for getting the President’s signature too. We know that Education was one of the pillars of Bush’s campaign. That is the real reason the bill was signed into law. Now, “health care for all Americans” is already a reality. American health care is the highest quality of care in the world. So much so, many other people worldwide come to our country for treatment. We really do not need the exorbitant cost of socialized medicine. Dean believes the United Nations is the be all and end all fix to our foreign policy struggles. First, Dean says: “Addressing these critical and interlocking threats, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction…will be America’s highest priority in my administration. I will bring all the instruments of power that will keep our citizens secure and our nation strong.” This is all rhetoric. Our current President is already doing a credible job against terrorism, absent our French, German, Russian, Chinese and Canadian so-called allies. President Bush is already fighting and winning battles that Dean and Gore just last week were declaring to be “blunders” and “quagmires”. Dean said: “During the past dozen years, I have supported US military action to roll back Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, to halt ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, to stop Milosevic’s campaign of terror in Kosovo, to oust the Taliban and al-Qaeda from control in Afghanistan…” And….And….did not support the ouster of Hussein and the battle of Iraq! It was “wrong”. It was a “blunder”. It was a “quagmire”. Which is it Mr. Dean? When he follows this statement with: “As President, I will never hesitate to deploy our armed forces to defend the country and its allies and to protect our national interests.” You know this is a lie. You well know that if Dean were President, he would be listening to Gore, his Secretary of State, and both would be sitting on their hands throwing more UN resolutions at Iraq instead of Cruise Missiles. Why do I say that? Well, because of the remaining content of Dean’s foreign policy outline. Here, if you want specifics, go into “Google” and search “Dean’s Speech to the Pacific Council”. It will print out nine pages of verbiage describing our current “unilateral” efforts against terrorism. Six times (by my count) Dean intimates we are acting alone without the support of the “international” (3 times) community. Twenty- four times (again, by my count) Dean speaks of “working with others”, “repairing our alliances”, “regaining global support”, and working with “robust alliances”. All of these are buzz-phrases for NATO – which after many days of diplomacy and debate, determined they would not be involved in Iraq; and the UN – which first did everything in its power to protect Hussein, then failed to support its own resolutions, then failed to support America when America determined to make the UN a relevant entity by executing the requirements of the 17 previous resolutions against Iraq, who all along had been thumbing its nose at the “international community” Dean so enjoins. Dean says that working with the likes of NATO, which said “no”, and the UN, which retreated from Iraq at the first explosion, is the “only realistic approach”. Anyone with even half a brain can see that the United Nations is united in only one thing; the lessening of American power and influence in the world. I want to mention just one more thing about Dean’s speech. Nine times (my count again) Dean employed the phrase “global terrorism and weapons of mass destruction”. Dean called these “interlocking threats” that he would make his “highest priority”. Yet, he will throw his trust in organizations that have repeatedly failed to respect and support the interests of the United States. He intimated that coalitions of willing nations are not enough. We need to “repair our alliances”, meaning, we need the cowardly, self- serving nations of France, Germany, Russia, China and the anti-American Arab States, or we will be powerless in the future to control terror and WMD’s. Current history reflects the multiplied failures of the UN and the above alliances in helping support American interests. We must reject any program that would subordinate American interests to any nation or council of nations more determined to destroy us than help us. President Bush understands that. Mr. Dean does not. If you are interested, read Dean’s speech. If you can get past the rhetoric to the end, you may want to contemplate this one fact. Dean is the current front-runner for the demic-rat nomination for President. That is a sobering thought. ------------ About the Author: Independent, Conservative, Christian. Married 29 years with 5 children raised and one grandson being raised. 30 year Army Veteran and published poet with www.poetry.com since Y2K. Email Michael John McCrae: michael.mccrae@us.army.mil Comment on this column in the forum. Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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