As I see it
Glenn Spencer -- August 7, 2007

The United States is fighting a war in Iraq. It was started to stop Saddam Hussein from using weapons of mass destruction. (I opposed that war from the outset.) Now we are told the war is to bring democracy to twenty million people.

Senator Specter is now proposing that the United States establish a special underclass of up to twenty million workers who will have no rights as citizens. In Iraq we fight to free twenty million people. In American Specter fights to deny twenty million illegal aliens democratic representation.

Specter knows that a democracy depends on a well-informed citizenry. Not only would Specter's twenty million "slaves" be uninformed, they wouldn't be citizens.

Specter knows such a disparity would not be allowed to stand. He remembers the cry that helped rally Americans against the British Crown. i.e., "No taxation without representation!" He also knows that twenty millions illegal aliens would find such a rallying cry useful in their quest for citizenship and, yes, territory.

It would be ironic if the same phrase that helped create our nation served to destroy it.

The only answer, of course, is the repatriation of those who have entered the country illegally. We should not reward illegality, nor should we reward conspirators by allowing them to achieve their subversive goals.