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?