Are American Soldiers
Still Being Killed Because of Kennedy and Kerry?
The
A.P. story on the last day of 2004 reported that the insurgents who
were battling and killing our troops in Iraq were doing so because
American democracy as defined by Kennedy and Kerry must include ”homosexual marriage.”
The insurgents could have picked many other things that bothered them,
such as the decadence of the West or banks that charge interest, but
they didn’t.
The item that bothered their countrymen
the most was the insistence of Kennedy and Kerry that a “democracy”
must include gay marriage.
The bitter irony is that there’d be
no gay marriage in Massachusetts either, if the citizens had been
allowed to vote and those two leaders had insisted that our state
Constitution be followed. Everyone knows that it was the failure of
the Democratic legislature to take a vote as required
by the Constitution on the Protection of Marriage Amendment.
Our Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously
by a 7-0 vote that the Democrats had indeed violated the Constitution
in 2002. Even Margaret Marshall signed that ruling.
If JFK and his brother, Robert, were
still alive, Teddy would be in the woodshed for a spanking. They would
not be happy with this spoiled younger brother who has been so vocal
about gay marriage.
As a leader in the Senate, he
was one of the only opponents in the Senate of the Defense of Marriage
Act in 1996. He was the author
of the hate crimes bill which gave homosexuals special federal protection
in 2004. And it was in his home state, with his beaming approval,
that homosexual marriage was first legalized by an unprecedented act
of judicial activism.
It is impossible
to know the answer, but one must wonder, would Ansar Al-Sunnah have
mobilized to the extent that they did if gay marriage was never allowed
in Massachusetts? Had it actually been put to a vote before our
legislature in 2001 and gay marriage had been banned, would the insurgents
have a battle cry of “democratic depravity” to rally behind today?
They would not. True “democracy” in this state would have demonstrated
that the western world does understand what the word “marriage” means
in that our citizens are also against gay marriage.
When the insurgents were using “homosexual
marriage” as their battle cry against our soldiers in 2004 and Sen.
Kennedy was getting even plumper, Lt. Col. Paul Hastings told A.P.: “The terrorists are growing more desperate in
their attempts.” And no one will ever know how much the threat of
gay marriage from Senators Kennedy and Kerry vitalized those insurgents
to attack our troops with more vengeance.
Full Text of A.P.
Story from Iraq on Last Day of 2004
Iraqi militants warn against voting
Baghdad, Iraq, Associated Press,
Dec. 31, 2004 --
Three militant groups
warned Iraqis against voting in Jan. 30 elections, saying Thursday
that people participating in the "dirty farce" risked attack.
All 700 employees of the electoral commission in Mosul reportedly
resigned after being threatened.
The warning came
a day after insurgents in Mosul, which has seen increased violence
in recent weeks, launched a highly coordinated assault on a U.S. military
outpost. The United States said 25 insurgents were believed slain
and one American soldier was killed in the battle, which involved
strafing runs by U.S. warplanes.
The United States,
which has said the vote must go forward, has repeatedly sought to
portray recent attacks that have killed dozens of people as the acts
of a reeling insurgency, not the work of a force that is gathering
strength.
The radical Ansar al-Sunnah Army and two other insurgent groups issued
a statement Thursday warning that democracy was un-Islamic. Democracy could lead to passing un-Islamic laws, such as permitting
homosexual marriage, if the majority or [sic] people agreed to it, the statement said.
"Democracy is
a Greek word meaning the rule of the people, which means that the
people do what they see fit," said the statement. "This
concept is considered apostasy and defies the belief in one God --
Muslims' doctrine."
Ansar al-Sunnah earlier
posted a manifesto on its Web site saying democracy amounts to idolizing
human beings. Thursday's joint statement -- also signed by the Islamic
Army in Iraq and the Mujahedeen Army -- reiterated the threat that
"anyone who accepts to take part in this dirty farce will not
be safe."
Insurgents have intensified
their strikes against the security forces of Iraq's U.S.-installed
interim government as part of a continuing campaign to disrupt the
elections for a constitutional assembly.
The statements by
the Sunni Arab-dominated insurgent groups seemed aimed at countering
Shiite leaders' claims that voting in the election is every Muslim's
duty. Shiites, who make up 60 percent of the population, hope to use
the vote to power from minority Sunnis, who were favored under Saddam
Hussein.
Iraqis will elect
a national assembly that is to write a new constitution.
The Al-Jazeera satellite channel reported that all 700 workers for
the electoral commission in Mosul resigned Thursday because they had
been threatened and that Iraq's leading Sunni political party, the
Iraqi Islamic Party, had withdrawn from the race.
If true, the move
will severely hamper efforts to prepare for the vote in Mosul, which
has been too dangerous for most work to even begin though the vote
is now only a month away.
Farid Ayar, spokesman
of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, could not confirm
the Al-Jazeera report.
"We have been
trying to contact our people in Mosul to see if the report is accurate
but we have not been able to reach them," Ayar told The Associated
Press.
Wednesday's attack
in the northern city of Mosul exhibited a coordination rarely seen
among Iraq's insurgents. The violence began with a massive truck bomb
exploding just outside a U.S. checkpoint, followed by attacks by squads
of 10-12 insurgents.
A Stryker vehicle
reinforcing the Americans was hit by a roadside bomb and a second
car bomb. U.S. forces then called in airstrikes by F-18 and F-16 fighter
jets, which launched three Maverick missiles and conducted several
strafing runs.
U.S. officials called
the attack a sign of desperation ahead of the vote. "The fact
of the matter is we're keeping the insurgents off balance and they're
reeling backward. They're trying to come at us and we're giving it
right back," spokesman Lt. Col. Paul Hastings said. "The
terrorists are growing more desperate in their attempts to derail
the elections and they're trying to put it all on the line and give
it all they can. "Still, Iraq's third-largest city has become
more worrisome in the weeks since a U.S.-led invasion routed insurgents
from their base in the Sunni-dominated city of Fallujah in mid-November.
Across Iraq, dozens
of insurgents, Iraqi civilians and security forces have been killed
in attacks over the last 48 hours, and the guerrillas have shown new
ingenuity to inflict large casualties.
Fourteen U.S. soldiers
died Dec. 21 when a suicide bomber walked into a mess tent in Mosul
packed with soldiers having lunch. In all, 22 people were killed and
dozens wounded in the blast. The Ansar al-Sunnah claimed responsibility.
Late Tuesday, insurgents lured police
into a house in Baghdad after issuing an anonymous tip and then detonated
nearly a ton of explosives. Twenty-nine people were killed, including
22 civilians and seven police, and several surrounding houses were
leveled.
Mohammed Salah, a
Cairo, Egypt-based expert on Islamic miliaBaghdad.
Up to now, their chief weapons have been roadside bombs and suicide
attacks. "Since they are always pursued, they try to be creative,"
Salah said. "They have to be creative because they know repetitiveness
is dangerous for them."
There was no claim of responsibility
for the latest Mosul attack, but it followed a Wednesday warning from
Ansar al-Sunnah that Iraqis should stay away from U.S. and Iraqi military
installations. A building in downtown Baghdad was struck by indirect
fire at about midnight Thursday, a police spokesman said. There was
no one in the building at the time and no reports of casualties.
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