The Audacity of Balls
For once a Democratic Presidential candidate is not backing down from the Republicans, in this case the frivolous attacks against Obama’s experience when it comes to dealing with the terror. As TPM notes, just a few years ago the Democratic Party didn’t want to talk about 9/11 because the Republicans had the conversation in their corner. Well, times have changed. Barack Obama is rubbing John McCain’s face in the mess the Republicans created in Iraq while all along ignoring the real front of the War on Terror: Afghanistan.
I refuse to be lectured on national security by people who are responsible for the most disastrous set of foreign policy decisions in the recent history of the United States. The other side likes to use 9/11 as a political bludgeon. Well, let’s talk about 9/11.
The people who were responsible for murdering 3,000 Americans on 9/11 have not been brought to justice. They are Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda and their sponsors — the Taliban. They were in Afghanistan. And yet George Bush and John McCain decided in 2002 that we should take our eye off of Afghanistan so that we could invade and occupy a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. The case for war in Iraq was so thin that George Bush and John McCain had to hype the threat of Saddam Hussein, and make false promises that we’d be greeted as liberators. They misled the American people, and took us into a misguided war.
Here are the results of their policy. Osama bin Laden and his top leadership — the people who murdered 3000 Americans — have a safe-haven in northwest Pakistan, where they operate with such freedom of action that they can still put out hate-filled audiotapes to the outside world. That’s the result of the Bush-McCain approach to the war on terrorism.
Remember, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, even though Fox News would have us believe otherwise.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Senator Obama better keep those balls!