I’ll be brief.
The other day, I wrote about the nonsense that is the republican “September 10th mindset” argument, and how easy it is to throw the Bush administration and republican’s actions back in their faces.
Looking back, it really is much simpler than that, especially since anything which is more than seven or eight words starts to, well, lose some people. So here is a simple yet devastating response to any of this “pre-9/11” fear mongering nonsense:
Where’s bin Laden?
We know that Bush doesn’t think it is a top priority and that he doesn’t think too much about the man who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. We also know that McCain totally supports Bush on the transcendent issues that this country faces so he must not care much about the man who attacked this country.
With all the talk about Iraq being “the central front in the blah blah blazzzzzzzzzzz”, and how only by staying there will we take it to the terrorists, there is a simple reply:
Is or was bin Laden in Iraq?
When Iran is being touted as the next boogyman who is the greatest threat to America’s security since Iraq wasn’t in any way a huge threat to America and how we have to send troops that we don’t have available to fight another poorly thought out invasion and bombing campaign there is a simple reply:
Has anyone been brought to justice that attacked us on 9/11?
When there is talk about why we should be supportive of Musharraf or keep sending gobs of money into Pakistan, because after all, they are our bestest friend in the great war on terror™, there is a simple reply:
Isn’t bin Laden, al Qaeda and the Taliban reconstituting in Pakistan?
When there is talk about how only the republican party can keep us safe and how Obama or the other Democrats are soft or weak on fighting terrorism (despite the fact that terrorism has gone up significantly over the past 6 years), there is only one reply:
How’s that hunt for bin Laden going?
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BRUSSELS, Belgium – It’s a grim gauge of U.S. wars going in opposite directions: American and allied combat deaths in Afghanistan passed the toll in Iraq for the first time last month.
But the deterioration in Afghanistan suggests a troubling additional possibility: a widening of the war to Pakistan, where the Taliban and al-Qaida have found haven.
By the Pentagon’s count, 15 U.S. and two allied troops were killed in action in Iraq last month, a total of 17. In Afghanistan it was 19, including 14 Americans and five coalition troops. One month does not make a trend, but in this case the statistics are so out of whack with perceptions of the two wars that Gates could use them to drive home his point about Afghanistan.
AL-QAIDA POSES GRAVE DANGER IN CENTRAL-ASIA
Gates made a point upon taking his Pentagon post in December 2006, amid great and growing U.S. public doubt about Iraq, that he was deeply concerned about backsliding in the less publicized and less unpopular war in Afghanistan. He seems even more troubled now.
And he appears less patient with the allies, aware that much of the European population is unconvinced by the American argument that al-Qaida in Central Asia — whether it’s Afghanistan, Pakistan or the largely ungoverned areas along their mountainous frontier — poses a grave danger to Europe as well as to the United States.
Taliban Blow-up Kandahar Prison
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Today from Jed:
silly boy, he’s probably sport fishing for najil with bandar bush in the red sea or gulf of aden.
all that “wanted dead or alive” crap was just that. if they wanted him they could’ve had him at tora bora…he’s a gwot propaganda bonanza as long as he remains on the loose and alive, eh.
What hunt? Jeez, all ya have to do is have bin Laden go hunting with Dick. He can get him in the face wioth one shot. Pull!
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VP would pull the trigger and come home with … quail by accident.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."