The BBC asks this question of Americans who voted for President. Bush: why? Here’s what I wrote.
Among several other reasons, I voted for George W. Bush to send a message to those who would like to see Western Civilization fall under the Islamic boot, as Islamist terrorist would prefer (yes, United Kingdom, you are on this hit-list as well): we will not go gently into that particular goodnight.
I wanted to help elect an American leader that will defend liberty; not just in word, like GWB's predecessor, but in deed.
I watch what's happening in Sudan and find it instructive. Black people (like me) are being exterminated like flies, Muslim or otherwise.
When I think of 9/11, I know that, horrific as it was, it's the best that the Islamists could manage. If they had their way as they do in Sudan, my beloved male family members would be dead or castrated slaves and I and the beloved female members of my family would be brutally raped in the hopes of producing a new crop of Muslims: conversion by the sword or the reproduction. No, thanks.
My answer may seem harsh but the terrorists have brought harsh reality into our collective world. President Bush may not be using the blunt words that I have, but, to repeat myself, it's the deeds that count.
Go and have your say.
(Thanks to Glenn Reynolds)
