How will Kerry deal with al-Qaida?

So why do Democrats and liberals focus on the Vietnam War that ended about 30 years ago? President Bush and Sen. John Kerry’s participation in the Vietnam War has absolutely no consequence in making America safer from America’s enemies in 2004.

We currently have an enemy called al-Qaida, who killed more than 3,000 fellow citizens on Sept. 11, 2001. And they’d be happy to kill more of us if they could. But they haven’t! And why not? Probably due to President Bush’s war on terror that has captured or killed most of the well-known terrorists in al-Qaida.

What is Kerry going to do regarding our war on terror that President Bush and his cabinet aren’t currently doing? What’s Kerry’s plan to make America safer than we are right now? Al-Qaida has not hit us for more than two years, so our war on terror must be doing something right. I haven’t heard Kerry even mention al-Qaida or how he plans to deal with America’s enemies. I appreciate everything President Bush and our troops have done since al-Qaida declared war on us in 2001.

Kerry acts as though Vietnam should be an issue today. Message to Kerry and Kerry supporters: We’re no longer fighting the V.C. They’re called al-Qaida. They exist world-wide and some may even be “sleepers” in our cities! Bush has al-Qaida on the run world-wide. Kerry’s still bashing Vietnam vets as he did in the early ’70s.

So what’s Sen. Kerry’s plan to deal with al-Qaida? Any ideas? We’ll be waiting.

Lynnwood

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