It is also appalling to me that most people have not heard about these fraudulent acts, because the "Main Stream Media" hides the reports in the back pages.  If Republicans were involved, the press would be outraged, Congressional Hearings would have been called, we would hear every fact, and then some, for months and months and months.  It's hard enough to get citizens out to vote, but when the Democrats have supporters willing to subvert the voting process, and the press looks the other way, it is only a matter of time before our democracy is taken away.  It should anger every honest voter, that in these times of paper thin elections, our votes may be negated by election cheaters. 

Now consider this: ACORN is a major contributor to the left most Democrat Party candidates and spent a lot of time, money and energy to try to unseat the moderate Democrat, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.  Now the Dems., under Nancy Pelosi and Barney Franks, are trying to slip a provision into the Banking System “shore up plan” that would transfer 500 million US Treasury dollars to ACORN, ostensively for low income housing.  To be sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money and some of it would obviously go to its housing purpose, but don't think for a minute millions of these tax payer dollars, would not be held back to support the elections of the leftist Democrats that appropriated them.  Let’s hope our Financial Institutions receive as good insurance.

It’s a good deal, right now, for the Democrats to have a group like ACORN working behind the scenes for them. They launder political contributions from tax sources through ACORN and ACORN gives the Democrats plausible deniability, when voter fraud is discovered. There is one thing Democrats should consider carefully, however. ACORN is a loose collection of anarchists and socialists vying for power.  It is not a democratic group and they are just using the Democrat Party, right now, for legitimacy and political cover. Once they achieve their immediate goal of weakening the laws protecting our democracy, they will take over the Democrat Party from within and be well positioned to achieve their ultimate goal of dismantling the USA, also from within. 

It is also appalling to me that most people have not heard about these fraudulent acts, because the "Main Stream Media" hides the reports in the back pages.  If Republicans were involved, the press would be outraged, Congressional Hearings would have been called, we would hear every fact, and then some, for months and months and months.  It's hard enough to get citizens out to vote, but when the Democrats have supporters willing to subvert the voting process, and the press looks the other way, it is only a matter of time before our democracy is taken away.  It should anger every honest voter, that in these times of paper thin elections, our votes may be negated by election cheaters. 

Now consider this: ACORN is a major contributor to the left most Democrat Party candidates and spent a lot of time, money and energy to try to unseat the moderate Democrat, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.  Now the Dems., under Nancy Pelosi and Barney Franks, are trying to slip a provision into the Banking System “shore up plan” that would transfer 500 million US Treasury dollars to ACORN, ostensively for low income housing.  To be sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money and some of it would obviously go to its housing purpose, but don't think for a minute millions of these tax payer dollars, would not be held back to support the elections of the leftist Democrats that appropriated them.  Let’s hope our Financial Institutions receive as good insurance.

It’s a good deal, right now, for the Democrats to have a group like ACORN working behind the scenes for them. They launder political contributions from tax sources through ACORN and ACORN gives the Democrats plausible deniability, when voter fraud is discovered. There is one thing Democrats should consider carefully, however. ACORN is a lose collection of anarchists and socialists vying for power.  It is not a democratic group and they are just using the Democrat Party, right now, for legitimacy and political cover. Once they achieve their immediate goal of weakening the laws protecting our democracy, they will take over the Democrat Party from within and be well positioned to achieve their ultimate goal of dismantling the USA, also from within. 

Tonight's National Geographic Exposes on the 9/11 attacks "Inside 9/11" gave support to the obvious notion that Osama Binladen’s purpose was to draw the US, “the last remaining Super Power”, into a lost cause for ambush in the tricky backcountry where the other "Evil Empire" of the Soviet flavor was defeated.  Vietnam comes to mind for both he and us. That being said there are two important reasons for also ousting Hussein's regime in support of the Afghanistan effort that I have not heard addressed by anyone.

The Bush strategy team chose to attack Iraq (WMD's and UN Sanctions aside) as a follow up to the liberation of Afghanistan for very good strategic reasons: 1) Afghanistan, land locked and enveloped by Iran and the “no mans land” of Western Pakistan, is an almost unsustainable campaign on it’s own. 2) If Saddam Hussein was left in Iraq, riding the collapse of the UN sanctions, he and the Mullahs of Iran would be tripping over each other to support the Taliban/Al Qaeda against us, putting the US and Pakistan in a very untenable situation, and scaring off NATO.

I would not be surprised if Pakistan’s Musharrif insisted, even in our gravest hour, that we commit to a second front, before he would stick his neck out to support our efforts.  What ever that has been and what that may be, is priceless.

I find it interesting/disingenuous that most Dems/Liberals can support the Afghanistan campaign but can’t see the obvious need for success in Iraq. Just transfer the body count to Afghanistan and the outcry would be the same. The Karzai government has enough problems, but without Global Jihad they now have potential.

The fact that we have diverted the main force of Jihad away from Afghanistan and on to a battlefield, which we can better manage directly through Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, The Emirates and Turkey, has alluded all commentary. It is a bigger prize by all measure and Zarqawi new it. Al Qaeda knows it, as we know it, as Iran knows it. The only ones who don’t get it, is the MSM. Give up Iraq and you give up Afghanistan, and all other friends in the region, period.

The most striking element from the 9/11 airline attacks is the irony that one of our greatest moments, that day, was the sacrifice of the flight 93 passengers, who probably saved the Capitol building. The irony is this: if the plane had hit the “Dome” at least two branches of government would still know we were at war.

Signed
Starboardtack