Posted on 04/27/2007 2:04:43 PM PDT by Alouette
ARE WE A NATION of irrational wimps? Rudy Giuliani thinks so. On Tuesday, he claimed that if we elect a Democrat to the presidency, we should expect more 9/11-style attacks. This, he assumes, is enough to scare the pants off the voting public and send them scurrying frantically off to support Republicans such as … well, Rudy Giuliani.
Giuliani's line of argument — though "argument" is too generous a word — isn't new. Since 9/11, our political leaders have proceeded on the assumption that Americans are cringing, cowardly souls more than ready, when we hear the word "terrorism," to suspend our critical capacities, mortgage our futures and jettison our civil liberties and our principles — all for impossible assurances of "safety." The awful thing is, many of us obediently conformed to this condescending stereotype. The United States is the most prosperous and powerful nation in the world, but after 9/11, many of us started to act as if we're in danger of imminent extinction.
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“ARE WE A NATION of irrational wimps?”
No Rosa, but you are an IGNORANT SLUT!”
No, but the author is.
What would Liberal nitwits like this woman say if hundreds of thousands or millions of us die at the hands of Muslim Jihadists? Let’s not overreact? How much are we supposed to tolerate? If we don’t kill them, they will kill us.
Rosa, dont you think a law professor ought to get her facts straight before she publishes her weekly rant?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268541,00.html
Democrats Jump on Rudy Giuliani for Something He Didn’t Say
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
By Brit Hume
New 9/11?
Washington woke up to morning headlines that Rudy Giuliani predicted a “new 9-11” if a Democrat wins the presidency in 2008. Barack Obama responded that Giuliani has “taken the politics of fear to a new low.” John Edwards said Giuliani’s comments were “divisive and plain wrong.” And Hillary Clinton called it “political rhetoric” that would not lessen the threat of terrorism.
The problem is Giuliani never said what the headlines claimed. It all started with a story in The Politico newspaper, which contained not a single quote to support its lead and headline. But it got picked up elsewhere nonetheless.
What Giuliani actually did say is what he has been saying for weeks, that Democrats would play defense instead of offense in the War on Terror, the same approach tried back before 9/11.
I wonder if she’d change her tune if downtown LA was leveled by a 10kiloton nuclear truck bomb.
"Even Osama bin Laden couldn't have imagined that the Twin Towers would collapse, killing nearly 3,000 people."
On the contrary - the first WTC attack in 1993 was designed to collapse one tower into the other.
The bad guys knew exactly what they were doing in both attacks.
Too bad the 1993 attack drew such a tepid response from our then commander in chief.
What WILL we see when the Democrats return and what WILL the response be?
Definitely. Now, how to communicate to AlQaida and other terrorist groups that absolutely no one will mind if they take out the LA Times, including its management, staff, editors, writers, truck drivers, janitors and anybody else involved in that mess.
Are we supposed to just sit here and let the terrorists pull off more 9/11 type attacks? Unbelievable.
I’m happy you don’t scare easy. Hubris goes before a fall.
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“The bad guys knew exactly what they were doing in both attacks”
Correct, BL. Binny didn’t go to engineering school for nothing. That first attack could have killed 50,000. But Clinton was busy, don’t you know.
But not to worry, Obama said last night that if two American cities get hit when he is President, he will quickly pick up the dead.
I doubt that she does... That would be too much like having a trial before deciding on the sentence for the guilty one, a la Alice in Wonderland...
That was an amazing reply. I guess Sen. Obama doesn't know those bodies would be radioactive; what's left of them.
They lived in this neighborhood way-back-when.
We had federal police of all sorts patroling this neighborhood, questioning people, searching, etc. for nearly a year after the attack.
We even get swept regularly for radiation.
So far, though, only one AlQaida member has been shot down here ~ just a couple of years ago on one of the children's playgrounds. Bunch of Afghans turned him in or something.
For quite some time there it was a high risk item to fly the flag in my immediate neighborhood which is why I flew mine every day, as did all the other veterans here.
Although we haven't had anything exciting happen around here since the shooting, it could happen again. Sorry you don't understand the situation.
In fact, you kind of remind me of Harry Reid ~
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