Message to My Friend the Soldier Serving in Iraq

Recently I received an e-mail from a friend serving in Iraq, telling me that some of his fellow service people are demoralized and are even repeating some of the horse manure excreted by the anti-War left. You know the lame, predicatable, stale litany: no WMD, Bush lied, blah blah blah. I found that disturbing, and I needed to respond. Here's what I wrote:

All these endless debates about pre-war intelligence are ridiculous as far as I'm concerned. As I have been saying on WLS since well before the war, when I first went on the air in August of 2002, it doesn't matter whether Saddam Hussein ever had any WMD, although I agree with you that he probably did. (Now that we know that Jay Rockefeller warned the Syrians and Iranians in 2002--nice job, democrats, as usual--that we were coming, he could have easily used that 14-month period--you know, the time that the liberals call the "rush to war"--to unload that stuff). The burden of proof was not on the U.S. or the rest of the international community to prove that he had WMD. The burden of proof was on him to prove he didn't. Game, set, match. End of story. He rolled the dice and he lost.

The question, and the absolutely only relevant question, in a post-9/11 world is which mistake would be in the interest of the safety and security of the U.S., a Type 1 error or a Type 2 error (as I learned in statistics)?;

Barack, Do You Really Mean It, or Is This Just More PR?

I just received a press release from the office of the man-god who we are so privileged to have as our junior senator, Barack Obama. On this Election Day, 11/8/05, the great man has turned his attention to vote fraud, and this very day, apparently to celebrate, he introduced the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2005, which would “make it illegal for anyone to knowingly attempt to prevent others from exercising his or her right to vote by providing deceptive information and would require the Attorney General to fully investigate these allegations. The legislation would also require the Attorney General, in conjunction with the Election Assistance Commission, to provide accurate election information when allegations of deceptive practices are confirmed.”

The release contains this quote:

“One of our most sacred rights as Americans is the right to make our voice heard at the polls,” said Obama. “But too often, we hear reports of mysterious phone calls and mailers arriving just days before an election that seek to mislead and threaten voters to keep them from the polls. And those who engage in these deceptive and underhanded campaign tactics usually target voters living in minority or low-income neighborhoods. This legislation would ensure that for the first time, these incidents are fully investigated and that those found guilty are punished.”

I don’t know about you, but I find this desire by Sen. Obama to protect the integrity of votes very encouraging. I’ve been very concerned about vote fraud for sometime ever since the democrats stole Wisconsin for John Kerry last year.