Why the left pisses me off

The other day President Bush attended the funeral of Correta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King. During the funeral instead of honoring her, the Bush haters could not resist the opportunity to take cheap political shots at Bush on such topics as wiretapping, weapons of mass destruction and hurricane Katrina. It's amazing how strong their hatred is that they choose to make such untimely and inappropriate remarks. Why can't they simply praise a woman for her work in civil rights without making a political statement. Funerals are not the time or the place for such extreme partisan rhetoric. And if they wanted to talk about civil rights why not mention that Bush has appointed more blacks to high level roles in his administration than any previous president including Clinton and Carter.

But since they brought these issues up, I feel compelled to respond to their attacks. First of all, they try to make the moral comparison between Kennedy spying on Martin Luther King and Bush listening in on terrorist conversations. These are two distinct incidents with one being indefensible and the other completely defensible. The democrats spied on King and his wife because they feared his power in domestic politics and wanted to gather information to discredit him. That is not something the federal government should be doing and they deserve to be shamed for that black mark in our history. But that was not done by the Bush administration but by the Kennedys. Where is the hatred for Kennedy?

Bush on the other hand has authorized listening to phone conservations between Americans and known terrorists groups. According to the left you would think that he is authorizing listening to yours and mine conversations but that is not the case unless you are talking to terrorists. I know I am not and have nothing to hide so why the fuss? What's really happening here is that when we capture terrorists we often find cell phones and phone numbers. The CIA wiretaps these numbers to track and spy on terrorists but they have to do it quickly before of news leaks on CNN about the capture. At that point, the enemy will dump their cell phones and the information becomes useless. Sometimes, this can happen in the span of a couple hours and that is why the Bush administration does not want to wait and get court ordered approval.

What confounds me is why so many people are so upset by this practice. Our government has a duty to protect us from foreign enemies and that is precisely what they are doing. Shouldn't the democrats reserve their moral outrage for things that are truly frightening like say Iran getting nuclear weapons or Muslims rioting in the streets over cartoons. Now those are things Americans should be passionately opposing. But instead all left seems to care about is hating George Bush.

The second issue brought up at the funeral was the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. This issue is about to take a turn in the President's direction. I have been a firm believer that these weapons did exist in Iraq before the war and I am amazed that we have not yet found them. I realize that only Bush and I share this same conviction but I just heard on the radio that tapes of Saddam Hussein speaking about his weapons are about to be released to the public. Apparently these tapes were discovered in one of Hussein's palaces but they were not listened to originally. On the tapes, he supposedly discusses his weapons of mass destruction program and how to hide them from inspectors. Currently, the tapes are being reviewed by the Congressional intelligence committee. Then on February 17 they are going to be released to the public at an intelligence summit in Washington DC to be verified by third parties for their authenticity.

While these tapes don't necessarily tell us where the weapons are currently, they certainly lend merit to the idea that they existed at one time. What will be interesting is whether this information will make its way to the mainstream media or whether they will bury it because it doesn't fit their agenda of Bush Lied-People Died. When the news of these tapes do break, remember you read about it here first.

Finally, one short comment on Katrina. The democrats want to make a racial issue out of this which I find morally repugnant. Not only do I detest using other people's suffering to score political points, but they are just plain wrong on the facts. Now I can't speak to New Orleans but I can speak to my own experience in Mississippi. And from what I saw the Hurricane attacked all races of people indiscriminately. Katrina didn't care if her victims were white or black and neither did the response and rescue teams. I noticed in the area where I volunteered that a majority of the victims were white. I am sure in other areas that were hit by the storm that a majority of people were black. So what? They were all victims of the same storm. I wish the politicians would move on from arguing over whose fault the storm was and what color the vitcims were and start working on rebuilding the neighborhoods that were affected.