Oh, very well:
Posted on 05/22/2002 5:44:18 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
Republicans were so dumbstruck by the mendacity of Democrats claiming President Bush had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 attack, they have overlooked the most stunning legerdemain of this accusation.
Suppose Bush had known 18 Muslim immigrants planned to hijack four planes on Sept. 11. What could he have done? Throw Arabs out of the country? Put them in preventive detention? Order airport security to take an extra little peek at swarthy men boarding planes?
Liberals won't let us do that now!
In a girly-girl, eye-poking attack, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., has demanded an investigation into "what the White House knew about the events leading up to 9-11, when they knew it and, most importantly, what was done about it." The more urgent question is: What do the Democrats know now?
Memo to Democrats: Muslim men are plotting another terrorist attack on America right now! That's what you know. What are you doing about it? Directing airport security to keep searching white paraplegics at the airport?
Gephardt's genius plan for assuring air safety after Sept. 11 was to federalize airport security. But he refused to allow airport security to scrutinize passengers who look like the last two dozen terrorists to attack civilian aircraft. That's what he did when he knew about it.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has thundered that it is "imperative" that Bush tell the Senate "what actions were taken in response" to any advance warning of a terrorist attack.
In response to the next terrorist attack, here are the actions Leahy took: He hauled the attorney general before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying he was "very" angry at Ashcroft. Leahy was "very" angry not because Ashcroft was failing to do enough to prevent the next terrorist attack. Just the opposite: Ashcroft was doing too much, thereby threatening the civil liberties of Arabs.
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., reacted to Sept. 11 by babbling about having the proper "balance" between fighting terrorism and protecting constitutional rights. If the Democrats had shown half as much indignation about terrorists as they did about Ashcroft, their convictions might rate more with real Americans.
Hilariously, Democrats are especially indignant that nothing was done in response to the memo from an FBI agent in Phoenix who had noticed a lot of Arabs enrolled in American flight schools. As the New York Times reported (in the always-crucial penultimate paragraph): "FBI officials said there was reluctance at the time to mount such a major review because of a concern that the bureau would be criticized for ethnic profiling of foreigners."
Let's see, who might have criticized the FBI for ethnic profiling?
For Ashcroft's evident interest in immigrants of Mideastern descent rather than, say, currency traders after Sept. 11, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, railed that the detention of Arabs "smacks of racial profiling." Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., hyperventilated that the Bush administration was "literally dismantling justice."
David Bonior, the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, leapt to action after the Sept. 11 attack by repeatedly denouncing nonexistent racial profiling at the airports. He even dragged the FAA administrator and eight FAA assistants to Detroit to listen to constituents who claimed they had been profiled at airports.
Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., warned that "the Phoenix memo is going to come to be one of the most important documents in our national debate about whether we did enough to protect America from the attack of Sept. 11."
What's this "we," paleface?
After a savage terrorist attack by a group of immigrants of Middle Eastern descent, Durbin has hysterically attacked people who support ethnic profiling of airline passengers as troglodytes "crawling on (their) bell(ies) in the mud at a right-wing militia training camp in Idaho." He actually took time from his busy post-9/11 Senate schedule to write a letter to the editor making this point.
Sen. Hillary Clinton – whose very first act in the Senate was to sponsor a bill prohibiting ethnic profiling – has also demanded an investigation of what Bush knew and when he knew it. (What did she know about her husband's serial philandering and when did she know it?)
Maureen Dowd sneered of the administration's failure to prevent the Sept. 11 attack: "I guess nothing short of a copy of Mohamed Atta's Travelocity itinerary would have stirred the FBI from its stupor."
But back on Nov. 25, 2001, as the corpses of 3,000 of her countrymen lay rotting in smoldering heaps, Dowd was snarling about Ashcroft's questioning of Arab immigrants in the United States. She snippily noted that "the first resistance to his edict to interview 5,000 Middle Eastern men came from police chiefs objecting to racial profiling."
After Manhattan is nuked by Muslims, then will it be OK for the attorney general to question Middle Eastern men?
Liberals may have no basis for complaint with George Bush, but Americans do. Pick your poison, Mr. President: Order ethnic profiling and be subjected to querulous attacks on the pages of The New York Times, or permit American women and children to be murdered in the next terrorist attack.
If Bush had nads, Mineta and Magaw would have their resumes out on the Beltway Bandit circuit.
Oh, very well:
Thank you.
That's the only choice we've ever had. It's always been political war at any cost for the Democrats...
Time to increase their costs.
Ann is, as usual, ROTM - Right On The Money
To ensure that we Americans never offend anyone -- particularly fanatics intent on killing us -- airport screeners will not be allowed to profile people. They will continue random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret Service agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor-winning former Governors.
Let's pause a moment and take the following test:
In 1972, at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
(a) Olga Corbutt
(b) Sitting Bull
(c) Arnold Schwarzenneger
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
(a) Lost Norwegians
(b) Elvis
(c) A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
During the 1980's, a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
(a) John Dillinger
(b) The King of Sweden
(c) The Boy Scouts
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
(a) A pizza delivery boy
(b) Pee Wee Herman
(c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40.
In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked, and a 70-year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard by:
(a) The Smurfs
(b) Davy Jones
(c) The Little Mermaid
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40.
In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens and a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by:
(a) Captain Kid
(b) Charles Lindbergh
(c) Mother Teresa
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
(a) Scooby Doo
(b) The Tooth Fairy
(c) Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid who had a few sticks of dynamite left over from the train job.
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
(a) Richard Simmons
(b) Grandma Moses
(c) Michael Jordan
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
(a) Mr. Rogers
(b) Hillary, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems
(c) The World Wrestling Federation to promote its next villain: "Mustapha the Merciless"
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked and destroyed and thousands of people were killed by:
(a) Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd
(b) The Supreme Court of Florida
(c) Mr. Bean
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
In 2002, the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
(a) Enron
(b) The Lutheran Church
(c) The NFL
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
(a) Bonny and Clyde
(b) Captain Kangaroo
(c) Billy Graham
(d) Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40
Hmmm . . . nope, no patterns anywhere to justify profiling...
Let's see, this is what the dims want to do:
Open the borders.
Confiscate all firearms.
Profile everybody except the most likely suspects.
Destroy the effectiveness of our major government institutions (Military, FBI, CIA, etc.) through the imposition of obtuse PC policies.
Apologize to everybody in the world, except conservative descendents of Europeans.
Purge all reference to God and Patriotism from public education curriculum.
Yeah, they have great plans for our security.
Amazing !!!
Well, the Dems are once again in a lose-lose situation as far as policy. So what do they do? Attack, of course. It takes the heat off of them.
And Bill "no spin" O reilly fel for it./
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