Posted on 01/05/2010 7:32:04 PM PST by Michael Eden
Let's make sure everyone's up to speed. On Christmas day a terrorist with a bomb just like the one a terrorist tried to use 8 years ago nearly creates an explosion that would have murdered 290 passengers, plus whoever happened to be in the jumbo jet's path as it crashed into the airport. The only thing that saved us from mass death and unmitigated disaster was pure dumb luck and the heroism of a passenger - who dragged the terrorist down and separated him from the device he was still attempting to detonate.
Obama's Secretary of Homeland Security trotted out to say "the system worked" - earning immediate derision even from the liberal lamestream media.
As Joe Scarbororgh put it:
"Unfair, how is that unfair, the system worked? Is there a part of the system where we're going to have the guy from Denmark jump over 3 seats, beat up the guy and put out the fire?"Well, it became pretty apparent pretty quickly that neither Obama's system that was ostensibly supposed to protect Americans from terrorists, nor his administration's statements ostensibly supposed to cover his ass, were working at all. So Janet Napolitano uttered a revision of her previous statement: "Our system did not work in this instance. No one is happy or satisfied with that."
She says that she was misinterpreted the first time, and what she meant was that the system worked after the attack, as opposed to before the attack when it utterly failed. Aside from the fact that it really matters that the system work BEFORE the terrorist gets on the plane with the bomb in his underpants, 20,000 pilots angrily pointed out that no, it utterly failed afterward, too:
DALLAS -- The pilots union at American Airlines says federal officials failed to notify crews on planes in the United States about the attempted terror attack aboard a Northwest jet on Christmas Day.But other than before and after the attack, the system worked.The Allied Pilots Association calls it "a large-scale communications breakdown concerning this terrorist event.
Granted, Janet Napolitano is an incompetent clown. But at least she paid her taxes, in contrast to all the other incompetent clowns in the Obama administration who didn't bother.
Well, the B-team failed. Obama finally decided it was time to bring out the "good, solid B+" team and appear before the cameras himself. Obama came out a full three days after the terrorist attack, presumably armed with accurate information.
After telling Americans that the terrorist was going to be treated like a US citizen rather than like a foreign terrorist and enemy of the state (while simultaneously claiming he would do everything possible to keep us safe), Obama said that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was merely an "isolated extremist." Hardly anything to trifle over. Go home, folks, nothing to see here.
Little Green Footballs immediately called Obama's idiotic statement the "Outrageous Outrage of the Day." And every thinking human being on the planet knew that Obama was chock full of the stuff they use to fertilize farmland.
The New York Daily News voters were apparently more prescient in Obama's grade: 57% gave him an 'F', another 19% gave him a 'D', and only 13% combined gave him an 'A' or the 'B+' he gave himself.
Sorry, there IS no 'A' team on the Obama administration. Or even an 'A-' team. Obama is a narcissist who is consumed with his image. He just couldn't emotionally handle having someone on his administration who actually knew what he or she was doing.
So now we've finally got Mr B+ by his estimation (and Mr F by most Americans' view) finally coming out yet again and saying what every non-brain-dead person knew was correct right away when Obama was saying the exact the opposite: that the terrorist was part of a major terrorist organization, very likely al Qaeda:
"We know that he traveled to Yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty and deadly insurgencies. It appears that he joined an affiliate of al Qaeda, and that this group -- al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- trained him, equipped him with those explosives and directed him to attack that plane headed for America," the president said.Only we already knew all that the day Obama called Abdulmutallab an "isolated extremist," too. The media had already published links between Abdulmutallab, al Qaeda, and Yemen before Obama even addressed the nation only to deny the obvious.
As Forbes' Claudia Rosett put it in her title, Abdulmutallab was "Not So Isolated, And More Than Extremist."
The only one whose isolated here is Obama. And of course, the phrase "more than an extremist" applies to Obama, as well.
Basically, one can't help but get the idea that the Obama administration is pretty much swinging wildly at every pitch, and missing every time.
From all reports, Abdulmutallab was singing like a canary until Obama gave him his lawyer. And then he clammed up like, well, a clam, after said lawyer advised him to shut his mouth. Counter-terrorism officials are using every "pretty, pretty please" trick in their new Obama terrorism manuals to get the kid to tell them what they need to know to break up the next plot. But to no avail.
58% of Americans (that's 1% more than think Obama deserves an 'F' as in "failure" for a grade) think that we should be waterboarding Abdulmutallab until he either tells us what we need to know, or grows gills.
Unfortunately, we voted for a president who would rather protect terrorist's rights than protect Americans' lives.
Remember how the Obama administration demonized the Bush administration and the CIA for trying to keep us safe? Too bad Obama won't try to keep us safe.
I said it back in February 14th of last year, and I'll say it again now: "Hold Obama Responsible For Dismantling American Intelligence."
But that's hardly the dumbest or craziest thing Obama is doing. Even as we find out that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was trained by a Gitmo terrorist whom we had foolishly released, Obama - who has already sent half a dozen terrorists to Yemen - is "absolutely" planning to continue to send more. As many as 90 more, to REALLY train those new Yemen-based al Qaeda terrorists right. When even Democrats are starting to say, "ARE YOU FULL OF STUPID!?!?"
It's almost as if Obama realizes that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab would have been a better terrorist if he'd only had even more help arrive from Gitmo - and wants punks like Abdulmutallab to "be all they can be."
Obama finally announced today that he was suspending Gitmo transfers to Yemen for at least a little while, whereas only yesterday administration officials were swearing up and down that the transfers would continue. But Obama is allowing "diversity visas" to proceed full speed ahead. Why? Because we don't have enough radical jihadists coming to us from Yemen. The words "terrorist state" really don't seem to matter to these people.
We also find out that 61 terrorists previously held at Gitmo returned to terrorism to be captured or killed again in 2008. Which means a lot more probably went back to terrorism; but that only 61 were actually caught. Doesn't matter. Obama wants Gitmo closed, and if our soldiers and intelligence agents have to fight or track down terrorists they've already captured once, well, our warriors are paid to die, aren't they?
The numbers of Gitmo detainees who were released only to return to terrorism looked real bad in 2008. So what does the Obama administration do in 2009? You know, that open, honest, transparent administration? They suppress the report about how many freed Gitmo detainees returned to terrorism. That's what. Because what you don't know can never hurt you - even if it is wearing a bomb in your airplane.
But don't you worry. If we catch these terrorists in the act of trying to murder Americans again, Obama will make sure they get their Miranda rights read to them a second time.
They should publish a "most wanted" list. They know who they are.
I have now heard a couple of times the disconnect between blowing “alleged” terrorists with Predator drones versus treating them like “alleged criminals” with the full rights of a US citizen if we actually catch them.
I like blowing the hell out of them, mind you. It’s the treating them like “alleged criminals” part that pisses me off to no end.
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