…and our enemies cheer. Why would that be?

Posted on November 9, 2006

Washington Times: Chavez leads gloating over vote

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez yesterday led a global chorus of Bush administration critics gloating over the outcome of Tuesday’s midterm elections, but some foreign leaders expressed concern over what the Democratic victory will mean on issues such as global trade and the Middle East.
Latin American populists, European leftists and Islamic fundamentalists were all quick to point to the U.S. vote as a repudiation of Mr. Bush’s aggressive, go-it-alone approach on Iraq and the global war on terror.

Americans need to seriously think about why our enemies would cheer about American election results.
The resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld also sparked praise from leaders of countries from the heart of what Mr. Rumsfeld once memorably dismissed as “Old Europe.”
The Democratic sweep ranks as “the beginning of the end of a six-year nightmare for the world,” 200 members of the Socialist bloc in the European Parliament declared in a joint statement yesterday.
Said Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema, “A cycle has ended. The cycle of pre-emptive wars, of unilateralism, ends in great failure.”
With Mr. Bush still in charge of U.S. foreign policy for another two years, the pugnacious Mr. Chavez was one of the few world leaders to comment publicly on the elections.
“It’s a reprisal vote against the war in Iraq, against the corruption” inside the Bush administration, he told reporters in Caracas. “All this fills us with optimism.”
Informed of Mr. Rumsfeld’s resignation as he was speaking, Mr. Chavez said, “Heads have started to roll. The president should resign on moral grounds, and Rumsfeld should go to jail.”
Iran’s state-controlled television said in a commentary that U.S. voters were rejecting “Bush’s wrong strategy in the Middle East,” as well as “financial corruption in the United States.”

I have my own thoughts on whether the GOP deserved to get trounced (I’m leaning toward yes and have been for a while…back in March I changed my voter reg. to Independent), but when enemies of freedom (”populists?” Puh-lease David Sands, you don’t need a political thesaurus on this one, you can call them Communist thugs) celebrate a development in American politics a fresh perspective hits you in the face like a bag of cement. Not that we didn’t already have a long list of statements from Democrats that are indistinguishable from those of our enemies (I still don’t know if the Islamists and Internationalists got the TP’s from the DNC or vice versa, but no matter, they rattle off the same vomit consistently enough, the original source is irrelevant), but in the context of an election it’s harder to take.

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One Response to “…and our enemies cheer. Why would that be?”

Bosun on November 9th, 2006 9:15 pm

Shame on the Amerian people who did not vote or voted for the other guys because they hated President Bush.

They should listen to who is leading the cheerleader section. Obviously they discounted the Left wing speeches and Al-Qaeda had similar talking points. THe left wingers were manipulated by Al-Qaeda and America haters.

We are entering an new era of the world of ****.