Posted on 07/03/2002 11:10:21 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
This Independence Day is not your ordinary 7-4. Quite a lot has changed. Thousands of Americans have been killed by a malevolent enemy, and that enemy will be around for years to come trying to do the very same thing again and again.
There's "noise in the system" that the enemy will try to gin up another hit soon.
And there are thousands of American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines on the hunt for the enemy.
This is the biggest change from a year ago. The enemy was already there, plotting and scheming on July 4, 2001. But a year ago, they were confident of American weakness and certain of American impotence. They had been misled by an unbroken span of years of ineffectual American responses to previous outrages. They believed that all that would follow from any attack would be a missile or two.
Which brings me to Al Gore. He's a shameless hypocrite. And it is about time the American press began to call him on it.
Saturday night, Gore attacked the president for having let Osama bin Laden get away, and for refusing to allow sufficient international peacekeepers to take up posts in Afghanistan. Secretary of State Colin Powell responded to a tape of those remarks by labeling them "patent nonsense" and by noting that the previous administration "hadn't even made a serious try" to kill off the enemy. Powell's assessment was too mild.
Gore's attack has no parallel in American political history. Imagine Wendall Wilkie attacking FDR in September of 1942 for the failure of the United States Marines to have secured Guadalcanal. (The six-month battle for the island began on Aug. 7, eight months after Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor.) Wilkie would have been justly condemned by all quarters and marginalized as a reckless self-promoter, if not worse.
Imagine Neville Chamberlin attacking Churchill for the evacuation of Dunkirk, the fall of France, or for the failure to halt the Luftwaffe's bombs. A full year after assuming power from the incompetent Chamberlin, Churchill watched as the Nazis seized the key island of Crete. Chamberlin had died of cancer in November of 1940, but had he lived, it is inconceivable that he would have attacked Churchill then or at any time during the course of the war. Chamberlin, you see, had class – if not wisdom – and understood well his personal responsibility for the plight of Great Britain.
Gore, by contrast, is oblivious to his own record. His attack on the conduct of the war earned some tut-tuts from the punditry, but not one elected Democrat rose to blast him. When Gore accused President Bush of "using the war" for political purposes, he was, in fact, projecting his own ham-handed grandstanding onto the administration. "Chutzpah" has a new face.
It is easy enough to understand why Gore is trying this tactic. The Clinton administration is increasingly revealed as wholly incompetent in the war on terror. It turned down the chance to grab bin Laden when Sudan offered the master terrorist up. Gore was focused on global warming and not global warnings – on the cost of pills and not the price of appeasement.
Until Powell's smack-down of Gore on Sunday, the Bush administration had been content to look forward and to allow the Clinton-Gore team the opportunity to avoid an accounting for their reckless mismanagement of national security.
I hope Powell's example is the new order of the day. Too much nonsense is being spouted by the left to allow it to go unanswered.
It is one thing to see Democratic senator after Democratic senator condemn the out-of-control Ninth Circuit for its Pledge ruling while allowing the nominees to vacancies on that Court to sit for more than a year due to Leahy's blockade, and it is one thing to read Tom Daschle's hilarious assault on the president's economic policies when he blocked a Senate majority from permanently repealing the death tax. I can handle Paul Wellstone's moralism against the backdrop of his twice-made and twice-broken pledge to run for only two terms in the U.S. Senate, and I can even find some sympathy for an at-sea – and quite obviously scared – Maureen Dowd and her like-minded colleagues on the far left of syndication land.
But Al Gore lecturing Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld on how to run a war is too much. I hope the search begins in earnest now for Gore's role in the "war on terror" circa January 1993 to January 2001. Gore was there, remember, "the most powerful Vice President in history," the equal partner to the buffoon-in-chief – Mr. Kyoto, Mr. U.N.
On this Independence Day, as Americans are literally fighting and dying for our freedom, is it too much to ask for independence from blame-shifters and paper tigers? Is it too much to ask for a little shame?
God Bless America!
Thank you, President Bush!
Thank you, God!
Thank you, Paul Atreides!
Happy 4th to both of you!
Uncle Bill - would it be too terribly difficult for you do do a mega link page of the corporate influence on the Clinton stories that you might have saved in that awesome link library of yours?
It appears the Rats believe that have President Bush cornered on corporate malfeasance and they believe "he is not going to get away with it" (quote from one of their apparatchnik's this morning).
I thought perhaps we could gather enough links to corporate corruption under Clinton that could be used by those who lurk here and by those industrious enough to get this information to whatever news media are still reporting honest facts - to counter this latest assault attempt by the Demoncreeps.
They will not stop. Shall we?
The Holiday *Best* of Bill Clinton & his Friends!
| FOB and FOFOB... the clinton friend files | ||||||
Busy giving away our oil reserves, busy selling old military bases to Chinese companies, busy having ice tea with aliens making campaign contributions, busy selling secrets to China, busy helping the UN create NWO, and way too busy hugging trees...the list goes on and on!
'Al Gore's war on terrorism?' By Hugh Hewitt"Worldnetdaily staff writer?"
Worldnetdaily | 7/03 | Worldnetdaily staff writer
Posted on 7/3/02 5:27 AM Pacific by OPS4
Not quite as the same as the way that our favorite HH WND poster does it... :)
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
Molon Labe !!
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