The Pendragon's Hall

Rush Limbaugh yesterday called for Senator Ted Kennedy (D-M.A.) to apologize to the American people and to President Bush for comparing them with Saddam Hussein over the recent Iraqi prison abuse scandal. Senator Kennedy has shown he is unwilling to do so. Nor is there any apology forthcoming from any Democratic lawmaker. Instead they keep laying it on with a trowel. They're only digging themselves a bigger hole--I suppose I should thank them--but I personally am not satisfied with that. Ted Kennedy is more than rude--Ted Kennedy is a traitor to America. He should be stripped of his position as senator and live the rest of his sorry days in disgrace. The definition of treason is as follows: "the act of betraying one's country, especially by helping the enemy in time of war(Webster's New World Dictionary, emphasis added)." Is anyone left who can argue that Ted Kennedy's deliberate attempt to undermine the war effort and wear down the will of the American people does not, in the end, aid the enemy? In any ordinary country, this would be construed as an act of treason, and punished as such (especially if the Patriot Act were as effective as its opponents claim). Such a person should certainly not be allowed to hold office in this country in a time of war. Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Robert Byrd (the former KKK member), Nancy Pelosi and others who have publicly maligned the war effort and sought to discredit their own country are traitors to the American people. In most countries they would be shot. Here, the least we could do is clap them in irons and dismiss them from their posts. They are entitled to their opinions of President Bush and his policies but they are not entitled to endanger our country by undermining our spirit when we are engaged in a war of self-defense. We didn't attack the terrorists; the terrorists attacked us.

For those who fear that I would put the entire Democratic Party on death row: that might not be a bad idea. But no, not all Democrats are traitors. Senator Joseph Liebermann has very strongly criticized the administration on many points but he has held off attacking Bush on the war effort and has indeed sought to rally the American people in these days. Former Mayor Ed Koch of NYC is another one as is retiring Democratic senator Zell Miller of Georgia. They have found ways to voice their opinions without undermining their own country. These men and others like them are Democrats and they are Americans. Ted Kennedy and others like him are Democrats and they have become traitors. Don't settle for an apology: make them resign!