Posted on 07/12/2005 6:16:07 PM PDT by Crackingham
"We're fighting the enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan and across the world so we do not have to face them here at home."
That's what President Bush said in his speech yesterday at the FBI Academy in Quantico. After the attacks on Britain, our closest ally in the war on terrorism, it is an astonishing thing to say. "It's a very insensitive statement with regard to the British," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). "Tony Blair must absolutely have blanched when he heard that."
What does Bush's statement mean? Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Fran Townsend, the president's homeland security adviser, said that the war in Iraq attracts terrorists "where we have a fighting military and a coalition that can take them on and not have the sort of civilian casualties that you saw in London."
Huh? If British troops fighting in Iraq did not stop the terrorists from striking London, then what is the logic for believing that American troops fighting in Iraq will stop terrorists from striking our country again? Intelligence reports -- and Townsend's own words -- suggest that Iraq has become a terrorist breeding ground since the American invasion. How, exactly, has that made us safer?
It is time for a policy on terrorism that is based on more than ideology and the rote incantations the president has been offering for four years. The horror in London should force intelligent politicians to ask fundamental questions: What will it take to achieve success in Iraq? And how should our homeland security policy be adjusted to make the United States safer?
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Levin is a Leftist Loonie!
Blah blah blah more blather from Dionne.
What total crap.
This is the new leftist mantra, just the latest variation on the blame the victim mentality. The London suicide bombers were apparently Pakistani immigrants who grew up in Leeds. There's no indication they were ever in Iraq. But facts have never impinged on leftist argumentation.
So is Levin endorsing racial profiling and deporting Muslims?
So how were we breeding the well-to-do Saudi terrorists who struck the Twin Towers? Man, the press is just one big broken record. You would think even THEY would get sick of it after awhile.
All one has to do anymore is see where the story comes from and dismiss it. NYSlimes, Wash Past, LASlimes. It's easy, you'll never get an unbiased story out of these cowards.
Does anyone still read the Washington Post?
Between those papers, and our immigration issue, I wonder if the much-maligned Alien and Sedition Acts were such bad things after all.
"So is Levin endorsing racial profiling and deporting Muslims?"
In post WWII Germany, the allied forces conducted de-nazification," of every German citizen.
That is right. They screened everybody, searching for loyalties to nazism.
Britain has memory of this process, so shouldn't find it difficult to brush off the procedures manuals, and go to work.
Small potatos to screen only 2 million muslims residing in the UK, compared to many more millions of German citizens back in the late 1940s.
The Beeb and The Guardian aren't gonna like that!
He didn't say that it would, and in fact this is only a distortion by anti-Bush zealots who are eager to set the bar so high we cannot possibly succeed in Iraq. In fact, the strategy of engaging jihadists in Iraq does not guarantee anything except that dead ones there won't turn up live over here. It does guarantee that.
Should it turn out as it has been suggested that London's terrorists were domestic products I don't think we'll be hearing an apology from Mr. Levin.
How does fighting terrorists in Iraq stop sleeper cells in America and Canada from attacking America?
Or, to quote the President in the past, "bring 'em on." Does any thinking person really doubt the long term benefits of killing thousands of would be terrorists in Iraq? Or really wonder why we haven't seriously tried to close Iraq's borders? It's obviously a lot easier to let them throw themselves on our pikes than try to ferret them out in their lairs in neighboring countries.
Blair is probably mad because while he's helping fight them in Iraq and Afghanistan, he forgot to take care of his home grown Radical Muslim problem.
I buy the Sunday edition of the Washington comPost only to line the bottom of my bird's cage.
I only have to spend 25 cents every month and a half.
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