This is a letter to the editor published in response to this article

http://theapp.appstate.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1725&Itemid=41

As short PS was removed

Dear Editor,
I am beginning to wonder where you find your editorial staff.  The recent article: “Thank God for Democrats” was a flat out disgrace.  Merchant’s assurances that the democrats will make it all better and save us from what the mean old republicans have done is short sighted and ignorant.

Hindsight is 20/20 and looking back it might have been a better idea to go into Iran or North Korea before Iraq, but what’s done is done and we have to stay in Iraq until their security forces can handle the Islamic savages that are killing people there.  

I think Miss Merchant would benefit from talking to a few Kurds in northern Iraq, you see they were pretty scared of Saddam.  The democrats are very aware that it was not anti-war mentality that put them in power, if it was Ned Lamont would have won instead of Lieberman.

And if your evil genie does grant your wish and we leave Iraq forever, then the terrorists will think that we American’s are weak and they will step up their efforts to destroy us.  Osama Bin Laden already feels that America is a “paper tiger” lets not prove him right. While it is painful to have lost the men we’ve lost in Iraq we lost twice as many in a single battle in World War Two.

As for the thought that we are “bullying” other nations, I think you’re forgetting that there used to be two towers in New York City.  We can’t be appeasers anymore, it didn’t work in World War Two and it won’t work now.  Pearl Harbor taught us that isolationism was dangerous in WWII and 9-11 taught us that it’s dangerous now.  We are a super power and people want us dead, Europe wasn’t attacked on 9-11 we were.  European countries are free to fight terrorism in their own way but we can’t let foreign opinion color our policy.

As for the environment, there is not one iota of proof that the recent warming of the earth (one degree) is man made.  I challenge anyone to prove me wrong by giving me the highest temperature recorded in the year 1543.  Any actions taken to “prevent” global warming will only force our economy into a recession.  Countries like China who do more of the polluting are exempt from the Kyoto protocols.

The message that was being sent to Bush and the republicans was not one of “back off” it was more along the lines of “Get it together GOP”.  The democrats did not win this election, the republicans lost.  

They did nothing to stop the Mexican invasion across out borders, they let government spending get out of control, and they didn’t pick up on a major tax reform bill called the FAIR tax.  In short they acted like democrats, they forgot the reforms promised by Newt Gingrich that put them back in power.  The vilification campaigns of the mainstream media didn’t help their chances either.

By putting the Democrats in power America has made a HUGE mistake.  One that is going to haunt us for the next two years.  Trust me once you see the liberal agendas that (ugh) Speaker Pelosi has planned for us you will be BEGGING for the GOP to come back.

Graham Shaw
Gs71170@appstate.edu

PS:
Why was my article on the vote being denied cut short and published after the election.  Why was the citizenship test cut out?