Friday Blogroll Update

So many blogs…
The past few weeks have been amazing, with Blogroll requests coming in at an extraordinary rate.
The official George W. Bush Campaign Blog has also been doing great. Thursday night Bush supporters across the country got to blog from their Party for the President. The momentum of the Bush grassroots efforts is strong, morale is high, and we’re resolved to do what it takes to win this election. Grassroots events like the Parties for the President are vital to the campaign effort. Our blogs have the power to reach people and get them to become involved. Bloggers on the Blogroll For Bush, we need your help to get the message out and to get involved!
Our numbers here at Blogs For Bush are certainly impressive, but our large numbers are only a small part of our potential value. We have to add action to our numbers to make a difference. Our blogs can help us. Encourage people who visit your blog to to get involved in the campaign. There are over 400 of us on the Blogroll For Bush and that means we can reach a lot of people.
Don’t forget, not everyone visits blogs, so we have to use the media as well. We can write letters to the editor to our local papers, and reach the people who don’t find us on the internet. If everyone on Blogroll For Bush wrote a Letter to the Editor this week, over 400 letters would be sent to newspapers across the country.
Our President also needs your support through donations. Encourage readers of your blog to donate to the campaign. Donate yourself if you can. Our actions make a difference. Our contributions make a difference.
Let’s roll…
We welcome the following blogs to the Blogroll For Bush:

Carpetbloggers
Sub-Zen
Down to the Piraeus
The Right Perspective
Stark Raving Mad
Mediocre but Unexciting
LA-AL-Quds
ZuDfunck
Brutally Honest
Dog Snot Diaries
Craig Linton’s Weblog
emerBLOG
Smooth Stone
John’s Web Blog
Para-Bellum.net
Pious Agnostic
In The Hat
News from the Great Beyond
Raincross Conservative
John V. Petersen
UPDATE: MoveOnLies.Org

Everyone who wants to get on the Blogroll For Bush remember to post a linked button on their blog and e-mail the Blogroll Manager! The more buttons are out there, the faster Blogs for Bush continues to grow and gain support. Also remember that participation both here and on your blogs is vital; everyone is encouraged to contribute to comments here and link to interesting entries on their own blogs. You may also consider participating in Wictory Wednesdays.
Blogs For Bush has a new feature to help bloggers on the Blogroll For Bush get noticed in the blogosphere. You can now put a mini-Blogroll For Bush on your page by pasting the following code into your site.

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display.php?r=f5ed4b7eafb4667d34f2061bf4e47b6f"></script>

This shortened blogroll displays 25 of the most recently updated blogs on the Blogroll For Bush featured on our main page. Just past this code into your site and credit it to Blogs For Bush and you’re all set!

Don’t forget, Bush Bloggers should join our Mailing List.
Bloggers on the Blogroll For Bush are also eligible to participate in the new Carnival of the Bush Bloggers.
Keep the blogroll requests coming! Click below to access the form to submit your blogroll request!

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Bush Interactive Web Ad: Weapons

If the “Weapons” ad wasn’t powerful enough, the Bush Campaign has now released an interactive Flash version of the web ad!

Winning the War on Terrorism

So, how are we doing in the War on Terrorism? Pretty good, so it would seem. This article gives the details:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — International acts of terror in 2003 were the fewest in more than 30 years, according to the U.S. State Department’s annual terrorism report released Thursday.
The Patterns of Global Terrorism report said 190 acts of international terrorism occurred in 2003 — a slight drop from 198 attacks the previous year and the lowest total since 1969.
The figure marked a 45 percent decrease in attacks since 2001, but it did not include most of the attacks in Iraq, because attacks against combatants did not fit the U.S. definition of international terrorism.

Emphasis added.
And if you don’t want CNN’s reporting on it, you can get it straight from the horse’s mouth here.
As to the why of it all – of course, the massive cooperation our “unilateralist, cowboy” President has been getting from around the world has helped hugely. Additionally, however, consider the fact that we’ve been fighting very, very hard in Afganistan and Iraq this past year and this means that we’ve had someone to fight – who are we fighting but terrorists? We don’t like it when our best and bravest die in battle, but we should all understand that this is what we have a military for – so that our superbly trained and equipped young men and women can exact a usurious blood price from the terrorists as opposed to the terrorists exchanging a few of their lives for 3,000 of ours. From what I can get, we’re killing them at a ten for one ratio – some ask how long we can take it: I ask, how long can they take it?
Some say we’ve created more terrorists by fighting – I agree; but if we create 1,000 new terrorists but kill 2,000, the advantage is with us. I’ll have to ask people to trust me on this, but when you see your comrades being blown to pieces on a daily basis and in return for these scores of dead you get to kill just a couple Americans, it will grind you down. Of course, the war is not to be won by military might alone – this war, fundamentally, is a war of ideas. Its our ideas of political and cultural pluralism against their idea of political and cultural tyranny; standing aside as if in an arena waiting to jump on the winning side are the overwhelming mass of the Arab/ Moslem peoples. Fighting long and hard is a great convincer, but we have to also do the PR tasks – and we’re doing it, as detailed here:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The controversial U.S. Arabic-language TV channel Alhurra is winning viewers as a news source in the Arab world despite rising anti-American attitudes in the region, according to a U.S.-financed poll released on Thursday.
The telephone survey of 3,588 people aged 15 or older in 13 cities was done by the French research company Ipsos-Stat in early April for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the independent federal agency that oversees all U.S. international nonmilitary broadcasting.
The results showed Alhurra — in its first two months — is being watched by an average 29 percent of the satellite-equipped households in seven countries, including a high of 44 percent in Kuwait and a low of 18 percent in Egypt.
The survey also found that an average 53 percent of the viewers consider the channel programming to be reliable or somewhat reliable. This includes a high of 70 percent reliability felt by Saudis and a low of 37 percent reliability among Syrians.

We’re fighting them, building them and talking them to death. We’re winning, no question about it. Only a failure of American will can cause our defeat – lets not have that and lets keep all this in mind on November 2nd.

Bush Parties A Success!

Last night, the Bush Campaign did live blogging of Parties For The President across the country. Grassroots supporters sent in guest blog entries from their parties. Photos were also submitted and from them you can see, the tremendous enthusiasm for President Bush.
Check out the archived blog entries here: http://www.georgewbush.com/blog/archives/cat_grassroots.html.
If you attended a Party For The President, you can share your experiences here in this thread.

It’s Not Just Bombs and Bullets

The New York Times shines a light on a little-mentioned facet of the Bush adminsitration’s approach to combating terrorism. While wars and captures understandably occupy the headlines, the strategy also works towards building stronger relationships with Muslims in areas where we can provide humanitarian assistance:

From remote Siyu, investigators say, the bombing of a Mombasa hotel that catered to Israeli tourists, and the simultaneous failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli-chartered airliner, were planned in 2002. The well is one of many public works projects being undertaken by the American military throughout the Horn of Africa aimed at changing the locals’ view of a country many of them had learned to hate.
“The war on terrorism is not necessarily a shooting war,” said Maj. W. Brice Finney, commander of the Army’s 412th Civil Affairs Battalion. Still, these are good deeds with a strategic edge. The main purpose is to monitor the vast coastline for terrorists fleeing Afghanistan and other spots across the Gulf of Aden. All of which explains why the military is paying close attention to Siyu.

Complaints from the hard left of the military response to terrorism leave the impression that the military strategy has been the only response the Bush administration has provided. The policy of assigning uniformed American troops to East African areas for humanitarian assistance allows unpressured interaction to grow between American troops and Muslim civilians, who normally may never have had the opportunity to meet Americans before having fanatics describe us with horns growing out of our heads.
The White House has good reason to keep this program low-profile; if al-Qaeda or its associates find out how well it works, the troops could be targeted for terrorist attacks, or worse, the civilian population could be attacked as retribution for cooperating with the Americans. Some local clerics have already voiced their disapproval, asking Muslims to cease cooperating with American efforts to make civic improvements. So far, their congregations have ignored them:

People here have become used to the sight of soldiers in their midst. Most welcome the American help with open arms, putting their political and religious beliefs to the side.
“We need all the help we can get,” said Bunu Mwengyealy, headmaster of Pate Primary School, across the island from Siyu. A storm wiped out one classroom last year, so Mr. Mwengyealy and others were thrilled when American soldiers arrived recently to assess the campus.
Muslim leaders say their followers have been ignoring their warnings about accepting the American largess. The people are poor and ideology takes a distant second to making ends meet.
“When I tell people, ‘Don’t let the Americans help you,’ they ask me, ‘What is the alternative?’ ” Sheik Abdulkadir said, shaking his head in frustration.

Bush demonstrates more subtlety than his critics allow — another “misunderestimation” that will cost them in November if the shrill Bush-hatred campaign continues.