Issue date: 10/27/04 Section: News

In six days, many members of our generation will go to the polls for the first time to vote for who they believe should hold the office of President here in the United States. This is a very important choice, for the fate of our country rests on the choices we are about to make next Tuesday. To some, it is difficult to see the differences between the two major candidates. However, the differences in direction are what are seemingly more important as we look towards this election.

Over the past three years, the world has changed. It is over the course of these three years that our current President has misguided America and has seemingly set the world into diplomatic unrest. The events of 9/11 certainly changed the way we, as Americans, should view the world. The threat of terrorism looms over the post-9/11 world. However, our President has led America and the world into a very dangerous situation that cannot be reconciled without an acceptance of failure and a new direction. Senator John Forbes Kerry will lead this new direction and that is why I support him for President.

We have seen over 1,000 American sons and daughters lost in Iraq for a war that has yet to be justified. This is unacceptable. We have seen a failure in the war on terrorism. According to the President, we attacked Saddam Hussein and his regime because they possessed weapons of mass destruction that posed a threat to the United States. The President manipulated fear and the American people by making them believe, in a post-9/11 world, that we were in danger from these weapons.

Now, almost a year and a half into this war, there have been no weapons found and the reason for war has shifted into liberating the Iraqi people from their torturing dictator, Saddam Hussein.

The war was misguided and there is no exit plan outlined by the current administration. Currently, our soldiers are being put in harms way without explanations as to why they are there or when they will be relieved of duty. With Kerry as President, these men and women will have the answers they deserve from a commander-in-chief who knows what it is like to be in a combat zone. A commander-in-chief who knows that we, as Americans, cannot condemn a man for torturing prisoners when we, in fact, are torturing them in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. A commander-in-chief who knows that the true war on terror lies not within the confines of Iraq, but between the United States and al-Qaeda. A commander-in-chief who is willing to work throughout the world, rebuilding broken ties.

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