Posted on 08/13/2006 7:12:02 AM PDT by SmithL
WHO IS the real enemy? The Islamic fanatics who plotted to blow up airplanes carrying thousands of innocent men, women and children, or President Bush?
My answer is the terrorists. They want to kill me, my family and my neighbors. According to officials, they wanted to blow up at least one jumbo jet en route from London to San Francisco.
Some folks have responded to the news of the British arrests by saying that, of course, they are against the terrorists. But they follow that compulsory disclaimer with a long anti-Bush rant -- which is a handy way of removing the heat from where it belongs. U.S. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., intoned, "This latest plot demonstrates the need for the Bush administration and the Congress to change course in Iraq." In so speaking, Reid mistakes the terrorists' bloodlust for a political philosophy.
(I hate to repeat this but: The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks happened before Iraq. The embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania happened before Iraq.)
The New York Times editorialized for a whole two paragraphs about how bad the terrorists are -- then dedicated the rest of its lead Friday editorial lambasting the Bushies and their war-on-terrorism ally Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., for being partisan.
The Chronicle sniped that Bush' "claims of cooperation might have been more credible if he hadn't been getting briefed about the British arrests during a ranch vacation in Crawford, Texas." One little problem: British Prime Minister Tony Blair was vacationing at the time in Barbados.
Both papers rightly lauded British officials for a successful roundup of plot suspects. The Times suggested that it is now proper "to find out what worked in the British investigation and discuss how to push these efforts farther."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Oh yes, of course, the President of the United States has to be personally and directly involved in every terrorist investigation and apprehension. Duh.
I hope San Franciscans read this.
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The official commie rag of San Freakcisco. Disgusting trash.
Amazed that the SFC even printed this!
The laws the Democrats are against in this country. Thank you Harry Reid for opposing the laws and programs that are designed to keep Islamic Killers and thugs and murders from killing us! If they every win perhaps they will rename the country after you Harry Reid, they could call it Reidistan>
this is out of san francisco?? holy someone in SF gets it batman, did the cubs win the world series??
Debra Saunders is their token conservative. If they didn't have her, their circulation would fall off the radar screen.
Er, did you even read it?
Saunders is the paper's token conservative.
If someone tries to tell you these attacks were the result of the President's foreign policy you can point out this: These attacks were a clone of the Bojinka (sp?) operation laid out ten years ago. Pretty tall order for the Governor of Texas to piss off Islamo-Nazis to that point.
Can't believe this is actually in the SF Chronicle! How did it get by the censors?
Saturday I had a long conversation with a Liberal Democratic Activist friend. Former Viet Nam Vet we discussed the fact that Radical Islam is at war with Humanity. Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Druze everyone else on the planet basically. He finally acknowledged this reality.
We discussed the Iranians wanting to bring about the Islamic Messiah by Fire. They are homicidial and insane. There is no polite way to say it. They must be eliminated. They are openly saying they will destroy us. We must strike first and destroy Iran.
Of course you are right. I fear the Dems will be swept back into power in Nov. and they will give Iran the time it needs to build its bomb.
That means that we will lose at least one US city in the next ten years. And it didn't have to happen.
"Oh yes, of course, the President of the United States has to be personally and directly involved in every terrorist investigation and apprehension. Duh."
This belief is a matter of faith among lefties.
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