President Bush Awards Medal of Freedom

The President awarded the medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor, to former CIA Director George Tenet, former Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer and retired Gen. Tommy Franks.

All three of these men are deserving of the honor, but to hear the democrats talk you wouldn't think that is the case. Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, the highest ranking democrat on the armed services committee said he "would have reached a different conclusion" and that "I don't think (Tenet) served the president or the nation well".

The truth is that the CIA was emasculated under democratic control and Tenet did the best he could do under the staff and budget cuts that took place.

David Wade, who is the mouthpiece for John Kerry (did you know he is a war hero...he'll tell you so himself) was full of flattery for Tenet and Bremer. "Did George Tenet get the Medal of Freedom for his 'slam dunk' case for war based on weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist? Did Paul Bremer clinch this honor for speaking out against the administration's bungled war planning only after he'd left the job?"

The democratic party just doesn't get it. As long as they continually malign the character of people they don't necessarily agree with, they will lose election after election. You can disagree with a persons ideology without character assasination. Personally, I think this country needs two strong party's in order to keep it moving in the right direction, but I don't see it happening until the Michael Moore and Barbra Streisand crowd is removed from the front lines of the party.