What’s stunning is that the White House would admit this was a terrorist attack. For the last six years, the government has bent over backwards assuring us that everything that smells suspiciously like terrorism on our soil isn’t really terrorism.
Why is this one different? Could it be that Obama is trying to bump his poll numbers?
They’ll correct it tomorrow to “A failed man-made disaster”.
Just one of Barry’s cousins with some firecrackers...
“What’s stunning is that the White House would admit this was a terrorist attack”
So what do they expect to happen next? And is that why they are in Hawaii?
To bump his poll numbers, he would have hopped a plane back from Hawaii and gone on national television over-dramatising it. The truth is, he is a puppet, and no one cares, least of all him, whether he is told or not about anything relating to national security. That’s what the gubmint folks are for.
Unlike TWA 800, this time there were too many survivors to paper over the truth. Had the attack been successful, we would be hearing about NTSB investigators converging on the area to look into the tragic Christmas plane crash, and how terrorism was not suspected.
And I have yet to hear Obamao call the Ft. Hood attack terrorism.
Because as someone on Fox News said earlier most think this is just the tip of the iceberg and that more attacks (or attempted attacks) are coming.
We aren't the only people who think Obama is weak. You don't treat terrorists with kid gloves and expect respect from anyone. The only thing these people understand is deadly force.
As I said before, this is a brand new crisis to be taken advantage of....
“Why is this one different?”
Because this was linked directly to Al Qaeda. It’s a semantic game that they are playing. Bush at least recognized that Al Qaeda was not the only terrorist outfit in the game. That’s why he announced that any nation that harbored terrorist groups was to be treated as the enemy.
But, not only are there terrorist groups, there are lone wolf jihadists. These lone wolves have struck numerous times in the US. From the 19 year old son of a Bosnian mujihadeen who shot up the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, to John Muhammed, the Beltway Sniper, to the guy who shot up Fort Hood, to the guy who shot up the El Al airlines counter in Los Angeles, to however many attacks on synagogues there have been. Their motives are exactly the same as Al Qaeda’s, but no one will call it what it is — radical Islamic terrorism.
Gibbs said this was an attempted terrorist attack. Like attempted murder. There is no such thing as attempted terrorism. There are successful and unsuccessful terrorist attacks. This falls into the unsuccessful category. Gibbs was trying to minimize the attack, not admit to it being true terrorism.