Posted on 12/23/2002 8:52:52 AM PST by DocFarmer
Republican Sen. Trent Lott was ousted from power for praising Strom Thurmond. So what happens when a Democrat Senator praises terrorist leader Osama bin Laden?
According to WorldNetDaily.com, "Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., told a group of high-school students in her state that the U.S. should adopt Osama bin Laden's nation-building tactics." And apparently, she's making the same comments to students all over Washington state.
Murray is telling the students that people who live in Third World countries might have a better view of the United States if Americans followed Osama bin Laden's example of being "better neighbors out in other countries so that they have a different vision of us.... rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan."
Rep. George Nethercutt (R-WA) says that to have a senator suggest that Osama bin Laden is a good guy and the U.S. hasn't done anything to help people is "shocking, bizarre and uninformed," saying, "You have to wonder what country Sen. Murray has been living in since September 11th." Democrats like Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE), on the other hand, were quick to defend her statements as simply a "very bad choice of words."
A very bad choice? Osama bin Laden didn't build roads, schools and day cares. He ran terrorist camps in Afghanistan that trained the killers who carried out the 9/11 attacks on America. It's the American people who lead the world in helping people of impoverished countries, not murderers like bin Laden.
Murray is a leader in the Senate; she was chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in the recent 107th Congress. After Trent Lott's "very bad choice of words," Murray was one of the first to say, "Like all Americans, I was disturbed by Senator Lott's comments. They were offensive, hurtful and wrong. Worst of all, they do not appear to be isolated remarks."
Well, Sen. Murray's "offensive, hurtful and wrong" remarks don't appear to be isolated, either, according to teachers' reports from across the state of Washington. And as Chris Vance, chairman of the Washington State Republican Party, said, "Patty Murray sent the message to these students that the United States somehow deserved or brought on the September 11 terrorist attacks... It is absolutely outrageous and despicable to imply that the American government should learn a lesson from the madman who murdered thousands of American citizens."
The only one who should learn a lesson here is Sen. Murray.
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Doc Farmer
Doha, Qatar
Update. Two Seattle radio talk-show hosts (570 AM KVI's John Carlon and Kirby Wibur) have been getting calls from teachers and students informing them that she has said this a number of times at a number of schools across the state. This isn't a one-time misstatement...
We did - we pulled them out the Seattle public school system back in 1999, when one of their work assignments read, word for word:
"Come up with alternatives to US presidents if we weren't so fixated on rich white men."
That was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Murray's set of criteria for laudable humanitarianism leave me wondering why we should not also hear her praise of:1. Josef Stalin, who reduced hunger and suffering in his country. He accomplished that by killing and starving millions, but how can we possibly be so judgmental? And didn't Stalin deal with the unequal distribution of wealth by reducing everyone - except the nomenklatura, of course - to the same level of economic misery? Stalin was also a champion of gun control - didn't he remove firearms from the general civilian population, concentrating the use of force in the apparatus of the State? What Democrat would not be proud of such a record of accomplishment?
2. Adolph Hitler, who certainly did wonderful things for the German economy of the day. Wow! Full employment, the Autobahn, gun control, schools for everyone (unless you were a Jew or a non-Aryan or one of those other sub-humans), a system of national health care and eugenics. The list goes on. And didn't he restore a sense of national pride? True compassionate and caring leadership by Murray's lights.
3. Benito Mussolini, who made trains run on time (at least for a while) and 'organized' the Italian economy in a model that would make any Democrat proud. I mean, who's to say what's right and wrong when a leader like Mussolini has done so many wonderful things for his country?
4. Pol Pot, who, like good old Uncle Joe, also reduced hunger and suffering by killing off approximately one third of the Cambodian population. And let's not forget Pol Pot's contribution to reducing gun violence by instructing his cadres to use hoes, pickaxes, shovels, axes and other farm implements to slaughter those who just couldn't see the wisdom of his 'back to the land' reforms. Why this man is not in the HCI Hall of Fame, I just don't know.
5. Fidel Castro. What hasn't this man done? Free socialist education (whether you want it or not), free lobotomies (good Socialist ones, mind you) free medical care (just look as his handling of AIDS cases), 90% literacy of the population (as long as you don't mind a little censorship to go along with it), 'outreach' missions to many other South American countries in order to spread the good socialist news. Ms. Murray should be worshipping the ground on which this man walks. Oh wait. She already does. What was I thinking?
That's just a short list of those great humanitarians and contributors to 'the greater good' that Ms. Murray who for some inexplicable reason has overlooked. I glad that I could clear this up for you.
You have to wonder what alternate reality Senator Murray has been inhabiting since 9/11/01.
She does however seem a good match for her constituents, generally.
They knew she was like this when they elected her.
Naw, you mean that some hair headed pot smoking latte lapping sleepless scumbag in Seattle outvoted some Eastern Washington wheat farmer working 40,000 acres with a 40 million dollar budget and employing 400 people. Naw, say it ain't true.
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