Saturday, March 8, 2008

U.S. Vote Could Give Terrorists Their Coveted Win


America could lose the war on terror by voting suggested Representative Steve King (R-Iowa). CNN reported:

An Iowa Republican congressman said Friday that terrorists would be "dancing in the streets" if Democratic candidate Barack Obama were to win the presidency.

"The radical Islamists, the al-Qaida … would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on Sept. 11 because they would declare victory in this war on terror," King said in an interview with the Daily Reporter in Spencer.

Isn't that eerie Mr. King? If I read you right, America's 2008 democratic elections could give terrorists the win they desire. What about George Bush's repeated calls citing democracy as the tonic for reducing irritating terrorism? Does that mean Republicans want democracy abroad and not at home? I thought that was the logic for Iraq, fight them abroad and not at home.

Rep. Steve King might want to send his prognostications to the horror writer Stephen King. They both fit in the fiction category. Maybe his next book will be Horrific Congress. I think we've found the leading character...