Max voted for an Export Administration

Act that eliminated restrictions on high-tech exports that can be used

is consistent with Clinton-Gore policies that either eliminated or failed

to enforce any restrictions on military exports or pass-through sales

and assistance for rogue regimes such as Iraq and North Korea. He voted

for the $15.5 billion foreign aid bill that would provide assistance to

some of our friends and a lot of our enemies.

Max Cleland's massive spending

votes in the U.S. Senate have helped to give birth to a $157 billion deficit.

The Homeland Security Bill favored by Max and fellow Democrats in the

Senate includes $5.1 billion in pork barrel projects that have nothing

to do with the terrorist threat. They continue to bottle up 13 spending

bills in the Senate in an effort to push spending higher and create a

further burden on the taxpayer.

Why this effort to increase

spending? Democrat pundits revealed in a New York Times column last year

that their election year plan was to drive up government costs as much

as possible, then blame looming deficits on the president's tax cuts that

benefited all U.S. taxpayers. Were Max Cleland's votes tied to this strategy?

Maybe good political strategy, but more bad judgment for America.

Cleland slandered our service

members by referring to Operation Enduring Freedom as "enduring frustration."

It seems he believes we should "catch" bin Laden.

We have done better. If bin

Laden were not dead in a Tora Bora cave he would be on TV every night

preaching jihad and exhorting more hatred against Americans. Max knows

this. He vouched for the infamous chickenhawk, Bill Clinton, who artfully

dodged the draft then sent our military in harm's way in Somalia, Bosnia,

and Kosovo. But now Max asks Clinton not to campaign for him.

Is this a tacit admission that

Max erred in favoring Clinton and doesn't want him around to remind the

voters? And with evidence of illegal payoffs from Communist China, a soft

on Osama policy that gave terrorism a free pass, and those horrendous

pardons to terrorists and con-artists that bilked the U.S. taxpayer for

millions how could Max ever justify the vote to keep Clinton? Do we reward

such judgment?

Max Cleland will always be

a hero to most Georgians. But we cannot afford the sort of tax increases

and wasteful spending that results from his liberal vote in the U.S. Senate;

and we can't condone his support for the most disgraceful president in

our history who Max now tells to stay away from Georgia. Thanks for your

sacrifice and service to the nation, Max, but time's up.

William Fielder

Peachtree City

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