Democratic Politics

The Party of Sabotage
By David Horowitz


From September to March, the Democratic Party played the classic role
of
appeasers, seeking every excuse possible not to call Saddam Hussein's
bluff
or call him to account for his defiance of international agreements.
This
was no different from the role Neville Chamberlain carved out in the
1930's
as Hitler defied one international arms control agreement after
another on
his march to war. Their appeasement threatened to undermine the
international security order, and would have done so if George Bush
had
buckled to their pressures.

In the 1930's, the Communist left also organized a "peace" movement to
protest American, British and French "militarism" and keep the Western
powers from arming to stop Hitler. Their agenda was to protect Stalin
and to
put pressure on the appeasers to rely on negotiation and other failed
measures. The Communists' peace organization was called the World
Congress
Against Imperialist War. Its American version was the Committee for
the
World Congress Against War (note the ellision of "Imperialist" to make
the
sell to the fellow travelers easy). It was led by the Susan Sarandons
and
Susan Sontags of the day -- literary icons like Sherwood Anderson and
Theodore Dreiser who were willing tools of Stalin's designs.

As the Iraq war approached, this magazine warned that the
neo-communist left
was making plans to move to the next stage of "resistance" and
sabotage the
war effort. The left did, in fact, organize law-breaking
demonstrations in
downtown business centers that would have made al-Qaeda's work easy
(by
tying up Homeland Security personnel) if the war had not been brought
to a
swift and happy conclusion by the forces Bush and Rumsfeld set in
motion.
Since the left's own war with America is permanent, they have now
turned
their efforts to undermining the peace and specifically America's
efforts to
reshape the Middle East and make it a less safe harbor for our
terrorist
enemies.

Unfortunately, the Democratic Party has followed suit in its own timid
way,
shedding the mantle of appeasement to become the party of sabotage.
Not a
day has gone by since American forces liberated Iraq that Democrats
have not
attempted to undermine the leadership that brought about the victory.
The
greatest triumph of American policy since the end of the Cold War has
become the unending target of Democratic snipers -- among them all its
presidential nominees and its chief congressional spokesmen.

The war cost too much; the rationale for the war was deceptive; the
President is a liar. We want congressional investigations to tie up
the
Administration, distract it from its war tasks and encourage our
enemies.

No act of Democratic perfidy has been more disgraceful than Dick
Gephardt's
statement in Iowa -- echoed by other Democratic figures -- that the
President's credibility was a crucial element of the nation's security
and
that this President had lied.

It was a disgrace on many counts. It was a lie to say that this
President
had lied. The famous statement about Niger uranium was in fact a
statement
about a British intelligence report concerning Niger uranium. The
statement
about British intelligence was true. The British are still supporting
their
report. The attacks on the statement are political sabotage of the
commander-in-chief. In time of war.

Second, the same Dick Gephardt and the other Democratic hypocrites,
without
exception, went to the wall to defend Bill Clinton's lies about war
and
peace, to shield him from any inquiry into his missile strikes in the
Sudan
and in other countries -- strikes that were unauthorized and where the
entire premise of the strikes was proven to be false.What Democrat
manifested concern about the national security implications of
Clinton's
credibility during the Lewinsky mess? Which one of them cooperated
with the
congressional investigations (conducted in advance of any war) into
the
massive illegal funding of the Clinton campaign by agents of the
Chinese
military and intelligence services, or into the lax security policies
that
resulted in China's theft of our entire nuclear arsenal? The answer is
none
did. America's national security is the lowest priority on the
Democratic
Party agenda. In this, Ann Coulter is absolutely right.

For the record, the United States did not go to war with Iraq because
Iraq
made a uranium deal with Niger or because Iraq did or did not have
weapons
of mass destruction. It went to war with Iraq to implement UN
resolution
1441 -- as authorized by a unanimous vote of the UN Security Council
and for
the reasons stated by Democratic Senator Bob Graham who is now one of
the
President's chief and most unprincipled attackers.

This is what Graham said on Fox News Sunday (6/23/03): "What we're
concerned
about with Iraq is its intention and capabilities to develop weapons
of mass
destruction, and the merger of that capability with terrorist groups,
that
is the ultimate nightmare scenario."

What the Democratic Party is doing now is sabotaging the war on
terror. The
securing of Iraq -- which borders two terrorist states (Syria and
Iran) --
is absolutely crucial for everything that will follow, including the
stabilization of the Middle East and the disarming of Islamic
terrorists.

It is a national tragedy that in this hour of national crisis the
Democratic
Party does not have a single statesman who might follow the example of
Tony
Blair and stand up to the saboteurs and speak out for a bi-partisan
front
against those who have sworn to destroy us. That Democrats are not
rallying
around the President in its efforts to carry on the work of peace is
an
unforgiveable betrayal.

This is the final destructive legacy of the narcissistic and feckless
leadership of Carter, Clinton and Gore. It is they who set the bad
example
in the first place. And it is they who have never really shed the
McGovern
delusion that in the final analysis America is the root cause of all
the
root causes that inspire our enemies to attack us.

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 14:39:22 -0400, Ken
wrote:

Disregard
I apologize , cleaning out the "outbox" and hit send by mistake.



Ken
11Bravo