Kerry Could Bring Armageddon
By Gordon Bloyer (10/22/04)
Casualties are a side-effect of war. The United States does more than any country in the World to avoid casualties. We do more to retrieve our wounded and injured than any other nation. We are not on suicide missions. We try not to kill or injure civilians. We have the power to kill our enemies with little or no casualties if our country acted like the Nazis or Saddam Hussein. We could level Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and China with little or no loss of our own soldiers. No nation could stop us.
The American people do not want to kill indiscriminately. That is why we will not just wipe certain countries off the face of the earth. We must therefore decide the amount of casualties we will accept when it becomes necessary to act. People like John Kerry apparently do not want to accept any casualties. They prefer to negotiate forever. This attitude inevitability leads to a greater loss of life. If we had invaded Iran at the time of the ''hostage crisis,'' when Jimmy Carter was president, Iran would not be on the verge of a nuclear weapon today. There would not have been a war between Iraq and Iran. Iraq would not have invaded Kuwait. The entire Middle East would be different today. Millions of lives would have been saved. Maybe there would be no Osama bin Laden?
If we had followed General George Patton's advice at the end of World War II, we would have driven back the Soviet threat before it dominated Eastern Europe. We would not have had the Cold War. Millions of people would not have been killed and tortured under communism. We did not act against evil and we paid a high price. We had wars in Korea and South Vietnam that killed millions of people.
If we do not continue the fight against the terrorists in Iraq, sometime in the future we will have to confront a much more deadly enemy. If John Kerry is elected and he retreats from the offensive, the terrorists will be emboldened. At some point in the future a nuclear device will be detonated in our country and millions will die. At that point our only alternative may be to wipe several countries off the face of the earth. Armageddon could occur due to a failure to act now. These things could happen anyway, but they will happen if we do not go after terrorists where they are and go after the countries that harbor them. This election is about life and death. A few die to protect us now or millions die later.
Sadly the same people who complain about the casualty rate that we have in Iraq told us that we would lose ten thousand in an invasion. They always have an excuse not to fight. They are willing to accept the three thousand innocent civilians that died in the World Trade Center. They make excuses for our enemies and blame America for the hatred they have for us.
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