Conservinator
12-07-2004, 09:31 AM
ELECTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN
The nay-sayers are now predicting elections will not be held in Iraq next month and that any effort to bring a democratically elected government to Iraq will fail. Remember, please, that those very same people were saying elections would never happen in Afghanistan. Impossible, the experts said - after all, this was Afghanistan....the mighty Soviet Union couldn't even invade and control the country after a decade!
Yet, here we are three years after the United States liberated the men and women of Afghanistan from the bloodthirsty, vicious Islamic terror of the Taliban, and today the freely elected president of Afghanistan was sworn in. We did it. The United States took a country whose people it was said could not live in freedom. They didn't want to determine their own lives for themselves. Muslims can only live under dictators, right? Wrong.
Hamid Karzai had this to say at his inauguration speech: "Today whatever we have achieved -- the peace ... the reconstruction ... the fact that Afghanistan is again a respected member of the international community -- is because of the help that the United States of America gave us. Without that help, Afghanistan would be in the hands of terrorists, destroyed, poverty stricken and without it's children going to school or getting an education."
It took three years in Afghanistan....elections are next month in Iraq. Freedom and liberty work everywhere they're allowed to flourish. All Americans should be proud of what has happened in Afghanistan, and what will happen in Iraq.
Link (http://boortz.com/nuze/200412/12072004.html#elections)
The nay-sayers are now predicting elections will not be held in Iraq next month and that any effort to bring a democratically elected government to Iraq will fail. Remember, please, that those very same people were saying elections would never happen in Afghanistan. Impossible, the experts said - after all, this was Afghanistan....the mighty Soviet Union couldn't even invade and control the country after a decade!
Yet, here we are three years after the United States liberated the men and women of Afghanistan from the bloodthirsty, vicious Islamic terror of the Taliban, and today the freely elected president of Afghanistan was sworn in. We did it. The United States took a country whose people it was said could not live in freedom. They didn't want to determine their own lives for themselves. Muslims can only live under dictators, right? Wrong.
Hamid Karzai had this to say at his inauguration speech: "Today whatever we have achieved -- the peace ... the reconstruction ... the fact that Afghanistan is again a respected member of the international community -- is because of the help that the United States of America gave us. Without that help, Afghanistan would be in the hands of terrorists, destroyed, poverty stricken and without it's children going to school or getting an education."
It took three years in Afghanistan....elections are next month in Iraq. Freedom and liberty work everywhere they're allowed to flourish. All Americans should be proud of what has happened in Afghanistan, and what will happen in Iraq.
Link (http://boortz.com/nuze/200412/12072004.html#elections)