Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006 | 8:20 a.m.
The day after 11 million Iraqis, at least 70 percent, including Sunnis, walked to polls (no cars were permitted) and risked their lives to vote, the Bush-haters diverted attention away from the largest step toward freedom in the Middle East.
This monumental victory should have been headline news for days, yet the very liberal New York Times once again downplayed a Bush victory. The Times ignored a request by our administration, which feared harm to our intelligence gathering, and on Dec. 16 published classified information that had been held for a year. (The Times writer is about to release a book concerning this.)
Our wartime president admitted that after 9/11 he ordered a wiretap on possible al-Qaida cells operating here in the United States. Hooray! I am glad he did! (I was disappointed that he did not close our borders at this time).
Any step taken to find out who among us may cause us further harm, I support. How can citizens complain about eavesdropping if they have nothing to hide? Yes, our freedom is important, and we have had plenty of First Amendment rights under this administration.
Yet, there will be those like Sen. Harry Reid who will be negative in order to implement the Democratic agenda, i.e., to prevent this administration from succeeding so that his party may win at the polls in 2006. Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman, on the other hand, is more concerned about peace, not only in the Middle East where we are fighting this war, but also between the political parties back home.
Gaye McDonald
Henderson
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