Democrats Stronger, Wiser on National Security

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From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/14227515.htm

Strength and Wisdom.

It's the campaign slogan that Democrats should adopt for the forthcoming midterm elections and the 2008 presidential campaign.

In a 2004 speech, former President Clinton emphasized the theme: "Their opponents will tell you we should be afraid of John Kerry and John Edwards because they won't stand up to terrorists. Don't you believe it. ... Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. They move hand in hand."

Republicans did a masterful job of convincing Americans that Kerry and Democrats didn't care about national security. Americans were dumb enough to believe yokel former Sen. Zell Miller when he blubbered that Kerry would defend America with spitballs

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President Bush diverted funds and manpower from Afghanistan to fund the Iraq debacle. We let Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora and we're making little effort to capture him even though we have a pretty good idea of where he is. The new mantra being spouted from Republican talk radio to their Hannitized and Dittohead lemmings is that people shouldn't vote for the Democrats because they have no new ideas and that all they can do is criticize Bush.

However, this week, Democratic congressional leaders set forth a national security policy statement, which included a call for doubling the number of Special Forces to capture bin Laden.