Friday, August 20, 2004

Quotes of the Week

"It never stops with the Kerry campaign. The spin, the vagueness, the insincerity, it never stops. If John Kerry isn’t voting for funding the troops before he is voting against it he’s protesting a war and claiming he and others committed atrocities and war crimes while later making all of his actions during that “illegal war” heroic and the centerpiece of his presidential campaign." --Frank Salvato

"We would not have gotten even this close to success without President Bush's courageous and inspired leadership. ... It is almost inconceivable that a President Gore or Kerry would have moved with such alacrity to confront our only too real enemies in both Afghanistan and Iraq." --Tony Blankley

"Kerry will not release his medical records. Kerry will not release his military records. Kerry will not release records of the investigation conducted about his anti-war, anti-American activities, and Kerry will not release his IRS records which would show the source of his wealth, suggested as enormous. In short, Kerry will not produce any real evidence about his true character. He is suggesting, I suppose, that we should take his word for it. Or perhaps we should just guess. If Judge Judy heard Kerry's flimsy case, not only would she throw it out, she probably would fine Senator Kerry fifty dollars for annoying the court and wasting its precious time. In view of the absence of any real evidence, I think voters must assume Senator John Kerry's true character is highly questionable." --Gary Aldrich

"We went into Iraq for the best of reasons, to end the threat of Saddam's WMD and to end his support of terrorist groups. Those who say Saddam wasn't hip-deep in terrorist activity are just plain wrong. The saddest fact about the Iraq campaign is that we delayed it for about six months while the UN fiddled and diddled about enforcing its disarmament resolutions. By doing that, we gave up the advantage of surprise and let Saddam have time to move his WMD and money and plan his own survival. We know that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head al-Qaeda operative in Iraq, was there no later than September 2002. We gave Zarqawi six months to organize the insurgency that is now killing Americans. Iraq proved one thing: the UN is the antithesis of our policy of preempting terrorist operations. We have to choose between the diplomatic quagmire and preemption. Preemption is the only sensible choice." --Jed Babbi