The United States is at war. The enemy is terrorism. We have good reason to be fighting those who wage these battles around the world. On September 11, 2001 we were attacked on our own soil. However, there are some officials, with questionable moral fortitude I might add, trying to sway public opinion against this war and they have chosen to try and revise the history of this recent event. These particular men have not had to expostulate on their own moral character, rather the media, as a matter of due course, has done a marvelous job remonstrating on their behalf, so that they have been able to rise into positions of great prominence and influence within the Democratic Party.

Let’s begin with the Reverend Jesse Jackson. His affiliations are questionable. A Communist Party veteran, by the name of Jack O'Dell, served as the director of international affairs for Jackson’s National Rainbow Coalition. Jackson, himself, was the keynote speaker at a 1985 commemoration of the 10th anniversary of "the liberation of Vietnam" sponsored by the Communist Party USA. Jackson has close and long-standing ties to an Islamic terrorist, Jeff Fort, who Jackson enlisted to deploy El Rukn thugs to scare Chicago businesses he boycotted. Jackson has been reluctant to condemn Islamic militants for 9/11. Instead, he has suggested that America might have had it coming. He is quoted as saying, "Sometimes terrorism is fed by the greed of the oppressors." Four days after 9/11, there were no American flags at PUSH headquarters in Chicago or at Jackson's home.

His half-brother Noah employed El Rukn thugs in his cocaine and heroin empire, before the feds busted him. Jackson later lobbied former President Clinton to commute his brother's sentence on murder and racketeering charges. Jackson has referred to Jews as "hymies" and has even said that he is tired of hearing about the Holocaust. In his personal life, he is known as a womanizer and has fathered a daughter out of wedlock. There is so much bad press buried in the inner pages about Jackson’s indiscretions that I could write an article just on him. But I think I’ve proven my point.

Most recently, Jackson has suggested that the UN should consider sanctions against the United States for the war in Iraq, based on its decision to murder all these people on faulty information. Apparently, Jackson forgot the seventeen UNSC resolutions condemning Saddam's regime, and the final one authorizing the use of force. Maybe Jesse thinks if he screams loud enough about our presence in Iraq, someone from the Republican Party will pay him to go away, a la NASCAR and Coca Cola.

W. Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, otherwise known as "the Pork King”, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940’s. He was a "Kleagle", an official recruiter who signed up members for $10 a head. He is quoted as saying he joined the KKK because it was exciting and because the Klan promoted traditional American values.

Senator Byrd, in a Feb 12, 2003 speech on the Senate floor, accused our current administration of squandering a large projected surplus of some $5.6 trillion over the next decade and taking us to projected deficits as far as the eye can see. He claims that our domestic policy put many of our states in dire financial condition and under-funds essential programs for our people. Yet Sen. Byrd, himself, has been cited for setting a new standard for taxpayer-funded narcissism by convincing the West Virginia Legislature to erect a statue of himself in the state Capitol. He violated state law which prohibits erecting statues of government officials until they have been dead for half a century. In fact, the senator currently has over 20 public works named after him. In the same speech, he claims that Anti-Americanism based on mistrust, misinformation, suspicion, and alarming rhetoric from U.S. leaders is fracturing the once solid alliance against global terrorism which existed after September 11th. It can easily be argued that our alliance with France and Germany was fractured because they feared our discovery that they were involved with illegal commerce under UN sanctions as well as the "Oil for Food” bribes to which they have been connected.

Finally, in his version of how events are playing out, the mood of our nation is grim. He complains that although our citizens are warned of imminent terrorist attacks there is little guidance as to when or where these might occur. I wonder if it has occurred to Senator Byrd that by keeping the war against terror on foreign soil, the President’s policy of preemption is working.

The Senator feigns concern that family members are being called to active military duty, with no idea of the duration of their stay or what horrors they may face. Yet at the time of this writing, many of our soldiers who finished their tours of duty (some extended) have returned home and have very positive things to say about how things are going in Iraq.

He suggests that communities are being left with less than adequate police and fire protection. I’ve heard no such talk in our news coverage. My husband, who is an ex-firefighter, assures me that his former brothers of the badge have through out time always strived to have the best equipment and to say that today, more than any other time, this is of concern would be a fallacy.

Robert Byrd claims that the economy is stumbling yet it has recovered from the 1990’s hallow .com boom only to see unprecedented growth based in sound business practices devoid of the corporate scandals that plagued the 8 years of the Clinton administration.

This Senator continues to scream that our President and his administration took the nation into war with Iraq without compelling reason and without broad international or even regional support. Worse, he recklessly compares the war in Iraq to Vietnam even though Vietnam was won by dividing the American public, not on the battlefield.

Byrd has said that justifications for war have proven empty in hindsight but I’m fairly certain that those who had the unfortunate experience of having seen the torture chambers and rape rooms would beg to differ.

Senator Teddy Kennedy’s lineage includes a father who earned the family fortune rum running and whose legacy is that he was an appeaser in WW II. Ted Kennedy doesn’t fall far from the tree. He can be portrayed as a boozer found in the most compromising of situations after nights of drinking, such as; leaving a girl to drown in his car, and more recently; partying with his nephews the evening they were charged of rape. He is one of the staunchest opposers to the war in Iraq and has stated that it was contrived to help Republicans in the 2002 and 2004 elections by diverting attention from the administrations deception’s at home. He refuses to acknowledge that President Bush was correct in forging ahead without the support of the United Nations, an organization in which many members have been exposed as on the take from Saddam.

The framers of our great Constitution had hoped that the future leaders of the United States could be relied upon to act with the same integrity as the first President, George Washington and that they would place what was best for our country above personal motivations. It was hoped that men of great virtue would be elected to office and that these men would be incorruptible.

The mainstream media neglects to remind the public that Senators Kennedy and Byrd, and the Reverend Jackson are hypocrites. Not only have these public figures not been held accountable for their numerous breeches of decency, but they continue to conduct themselves with impunity while they labor to subvert the efforts of those who place the collective good over their own well being. These three men consistently abuse their positions of influence for personal and political gain. It is their inflammatory rhetoric which places our soldiers at the greatest risk, while they endeavor to discredit our efforts in the war on terror.

Although President George Bush is a man of great candor and principle, the mainstream media has chosen to align itself with Jackson, Byrd, and Kennedy, all men of questionable character and motives. I’ll take, "Why do these men get such favorable press? for $1000.00, Alex.

Comrade Jesse Jackson
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22185

dumb and dumber
http://www.craigslist.org/sby/pol/29372829.html

Jesse Jackson’s ties to terrorists exposed
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26851Reckless_Administration  

Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0212-07.htm

Robert Byrd
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd

Sen. Robert Byrd, ex-Klansman
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin030801.asp

Words of wisdom from the King of Pork
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=news_byrddroppings

Nancy Salvato is a middle school teacher in Illinois and an independent contractor for Prism Educational Consulting. She is the Educational Liaison to IL Sen. Ray Soden and she works with national and local organizations furthering the cause of Civic Education. She is a columnist for American Daily, The Common Voice, GOP-USA, OpinionEditorials and The New Media Journal.us. Her writing has been recognized by the US Secretary of Education. She has been published in The Washington Times, The Washington Dispatch, Iconoclast, Free Republic Network & Townhall.com., as well as other nationally and internationally published media outlets.