Kerry's Unwavering Arrogance
We?’ve heard about Kerry?’s legendary elitism. We?’ve heard the stories of him bucking lines in small town Massachusetts, chastising those he usurped with a flippant, ''Don?’t you know who I am?'' We?’ve read accounts of him demeaning Secret Service agents for his lack of balance on his snowboard: ''I don?’t fall down. That son-of-a-bitch knocked me over.'' It?’s clear that he believes he is above the Everyman. Better than the Everyman. Superior to the Everyman. He is an elitist.
Mr. Allawi spoke to the American people, via their elected representatives, to affirm and confirm a few things. He wanted, first and foremost, to thank the American people for helping to liberate them from the tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein.
He thanked us for freeing the Iraqi people from a regime that the United Nations--that bastion of principle--allowed to remain in power regardless of the mass graves it produced and the truly illegal wars it waged. His was sincere and everyone who was in the House chamber felt it, accepted it, and validated it.
But perhaps the most important element of Mr. Allawi?’s speech to the American people was his contention that while our media report the dire situations in just three regions within his country, the overwhelming majority of Iraqis are thankful for what the Coalition Forces have done and continue to do.
He stood before our representatives and told us, straight from Baghdad, that the situation with regard to the terrorist insurgency is not as horrifying as our media is portraying it to be, that the peaceful regions outnumber the hostile regions 15 to 3, and, albeit little by little, that the war against terrorism in his country is being won.
Are we going to believe a man who lives in Baghdad, whose job it is to nurture democracy in a newly freed nation, a man who lives and breathes every element of the Iraqi society, who witnesses firsthand the successes and the setbacks on a day-to-day basis?
Or are we going to believe John Kerry and his disingenuous spin-doctors, people who have taken to constant repetition of talking points and non-truths in hopes of capitalizing on propaganda tactics from WorldWar II? I don?’t know about you but I have to believe someone who is dedicated to a free and peaceful Iraq over someone who is continuously preaching doom while proposing to handover reconstruction responsibilities to the very international organization who is responsible for allowing Saddam Hussein to remain in power while hundreds of thousands--if not millions--died at his hands.