September 28, 2003

Political Bias Sabotaging U.S. War Effort in Iraq

Let’s not quibble. We all know that liberals – controllers of the Democratic Party and mainline media – are terminally biased.

One might be inclined to shrug this off – politics as usual. However, it is painfully obvious that a seismic change in public discourse has infected the nation. Lies, outrageous accusations and blind favoritism abound.

Politically correct pandering to win the hearts, minds and votes of selfish-interest groups threatens national unity.

Ex-President Bill Clinton hustled out to California a couple of weeks ago to stump for Gov. Gray Davis in the recall election coming up Oct. 7.

Barrels of ink and miles of video tape recorded their triumphant visit to an African-American church. There the minister and a flailing song leader stirred up the congregation. At one point, Clinton was given a baby to kiss -- after which he held up the infant and wagged it in rhythm to wild applause.

The mass media also applauded. After all, it was newly retired Bill Clinton who opened his post-presidency office in New York city by declaring to the Associated Press: "I went to Harlem because I think I am the first black president."

Now, flash back to the last presidential election. Texas Gov. George W. Bush made a campaign appearance at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, which prides itself in teaching "old time religion."

The Democratic Party and the self-admitted liberal press went ballistic. How dare Bush campaign at a religious institution?

It is open season on white fundamentalists considered conservative heretics but off limits on politically correct minorities considered private property of the liberal plantation.

So much for the separation of church and state.

Liberals today still apply their double standard anent Dubya.

Fanatic Islam has declared "holy war" on free people everywhere. Most target nations fume but do little more than bury innocent victims. Only U.S. and Israel fight back.  

Osama bin-Laden made a big mistake when he engineered a mass blow against the United States. More than 3,000 deaths and billions of dollars of damage was a clear, military attack. Franklin D. Roosevelt waged a four-year war against Nazi and Japanese terrorism on less.  

President Bush was duty bound to strike back against our sworn enemy. A huge majority of Congress agreed.

Now we have moved into an election cycle, and liberals have rushed forward to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Fault finding is non-stop.

Leading the charge is Sen. Teddy Kennedy, the Chappaquiddick coward. He asserted recently to the Associated Press:  "This whole thing is a fraud made up in Texas" in the belief "that war was going to be good politically."

The mainline media aid and abet the hysteria with death-a-day reports of ambushed U.S. personnel, sabotage of public services, assassinations of cooperating Iraqi, elusiveness of Saddam and bin-Laden, failure to find weapons of mass destruction, hatred of Americans, unnecessary occupation, no battle plan, no exit plan, no shaving soap.  

The facts, of course, contradict liberal rhetoric. The March to Baghdad was a brilliant success. Reconstruction is progressing rapidly.

Casualties of the war – sad and regretted -- are a small ratio to the military accomplishments. The latest poll indicates that 70 percent of Iraqi citizens approve of the U.S. action and reconstruction progress. Returning American soldiers put the approval rating at 90 percent.

Bush, with overwhelming congressional approval, declared war on the Axis of Evil, not Iraq. Afghanistan was the beginning, not the end. bin-Laden was a known client also of Iraq, Iran and North Korea – nuclear weapon builders well known to all.

Iran has an incipient freedom movement worth encouraging. North Korea is bluffing. Iraq was here and now. It had used WMDs  against it neighbors and its own people -- and threatened to do all again.

The biggest criticisms by liberals are: Why Iraq, why now?

The answers by realists are: If not Iraq, who? If not now, when?

PARTING SHOTS

French President Chirac says he might be willing to train a few Iraqi police. We can always depend of the French to be there when they need us.

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Gen. Wesley Clark, former head of NATO, has declared his candidacy for president as a Democrat. He says he would, and would not, have voted for the war against terrorism – thereby leaping to first place in the 10-candidate field.  

Lindsey Williams is a Sun columnist who can be reached at linwms@lindseywilliams.org