Senators Kennedy and Kerry Join with New York’s Chuck Schumer in Intense Effort to Seriously Hurt President Bush and “Win” this Fall’s Election
            Senators Kennedy and Kerry share an intense desire with Senator Schumer that the Democrats beat President Bush this year.
            But Hillary Clinton distanced herself from that group yesterday when she told a militant group of liberals that she is glad she has supported the war in Iraq, causing many to believe that she is positioning herself for a run for the Presidency two years from now. She is positioning herself as a moderate, the same as her husband did in 2002.
            The foolish efforts by Kennedy and Kerry, even after the triumphant journey to Iraq by the President this week, are not new. In 2005, when A.P. reported from Iraq that three militant groups were warning the citizens against voting in the “dirty farce” of elections that January, Sen. Kennedy said (after the elections were a triumphant success for that country and their start toward freedom):  
            “Sunday’s elections are not a cure for the violence and instability.” How wrong he was and still is as he continues in his attempt to demonize our soldiers in order to make some political gain over the President. The elections in that devastated country in 2005 after eons of suffering were not important to Kennedy, but they were a beacon of hope to the people of that country where 60-72% voted despite the threats against them.  
            Senator Kerry was even stupider. When asked on ‘Meet the Press’ if the world would accept the election as legitimate, he responded: “It’s hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can’t vote and doesn’t vote.”
            But Kerry forgot that when the unhappy, listless voters in Massachusetts installed him in 2002, only 44% bothered to go to the polls. Does that mean that we in Massachusetts can finally get rid of Kerry and elect an intelligent person?

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 militancy, suggested that insurgents may be experimenting with new tactics to test the Americans after the guerrillas lost their stronghold in Fallujah, west of Baghdad. 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.