I'm a software engineer who's married and has two daughters. I'm a Christian who tries to let my faith inform my political views, rather than vice versa. I do lean to the conservative side on many issues. Politically, I favor a government that holds people responsible for their behavior and well-being while helping the less fortunate become self-sustaining and contributors to society.
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The General Doesn't Agree With Sen. Kerry
Sen. John Kerry has, on numerous occasions, claimed the US missed a chance to capture or kill Osama bin Laden due to 'outsourcing' the search to tribal warlords when we had him cornered in Tora Bora. Wrong on both counts, according to retired general Tommy Franks, who should know a thing or two about it. Franks states that a) there was no solid intelligence that ObL was there, and b) US Special Forces were very involved in the engagement.
With the revelations about the UN corruption in the Oil for Food debacle, the expression of European countries that they won't help in Iraq regardless of who the US president is, the elections in Afghanistan, and now the debunking of his outsourcing claim, one wonders what tack Sen. Kerry will take next? Maybe that he would have been MORE pre-emptive? Probably not....
