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Just in time for elections, Bush campaigns on fear (BARF ALERT)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | September 10, 2006 | MONROE ANDERSON

Posted on 09/10/2006 7:47:18 AM PDT by Chi-townChief

Five years after the 9/11 tragedy, the kingpin of Abraham Lincoln's party is still dead set on fooling most of the people most of the time.

President Bush and his chorus of Republican pols, Cabinet members and neo-con sycophants would have us believe we're safer or, depending on political expediencies, not that safe. According to the president's pre-9/11 anniversary speeches on the progress of the war on terror, we're safer than we were before the attacks but not yet safe enough to steer clear of his failed stay-the-course strategy. As Bush explains it, al-Qaida's leadership is decimated but remains dangerous enough to destroy the entire civilized world.

There he goes again.

With midterm congressional elections less than two months away, the Bush subterfuge machine is in full spiel and spin. Too incompetent to manage problems that are all too real to mainstream America, such as high gas prices, 45 million citizens without health insurance and a sliding income for middle-class workers -- or capturing Osama bin Laden for that matter -- the president and his forces are back to wheeling and dealing terror. They're playing the same fear-mongering three-card monte game that worked so well in the 2002 and 2004 elections: See if you can find the terrorist threat under here or here or there. Find Saddam Hussein's ethereal weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Watch the politically timed color alert rise and fall on cue.

There's a book just out with a title that sums it all up: Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War. Authors Michael Isikoff and David Corn report that Bush hated Saddam so much that he privately let loose expletive-laden tirades against the dictator. In March 2002, months before Bush asked Congress for authority to attack Saddam, he bluntly exposed his true intentions in an unguarded moment with two aides. When told that White House correspondent Helen Thomas was questioning the need to oust Saddam, Bush snapped: ''Did you tell her I intend to kick his sorry m - - - - - - - - - - - - ass all over the Mideast?''

The president's anger was understandable. ''After all,'' Bush said six months later while speaking at a fund-raiser in Houston, ''this is the guy who tried to kill my dad.''

I think that's admirable that Bush 43 loves his dad, Bush 41, enough to try to revenge Saddam's botched assassination attempt in 1993. I loved my late dad as much as Bush loves his, and while I too would have been livid if the Iraqi dictator tried to whack my father, I wouldn't have set into motion a wave of international shock and awe that would result in the deaths of more than 2,600 U.S. military men and women and more than 41,000 innocent Iraqi civilians.

I also love my two sons as much as I'm sure he loves his twin daughters. If we're really in danger of Apocalypse Soon, as Bush keeps insisting, then we ought to act like it. The president should re-institute a mandatory military draft. I'll tearfully send my sons off to war, right after Bush tearfully sends his daughters to sign up in our co-educational military. If the war against Islamic terrorists compares to the fight against Nazis, as Bush insists, and if a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq would lead to its conquest by our nation's worst enemies, then we ought to have a military reflecting that clear and present danger. There were 16 million Americans fighting to keep the world safe for democracy in World War II. There are 130,000 in Iraq.

I'm afraid Bush's plan to save the world from Islamic fascism is way too modest. He wants Congress to pass his terrorist surveillance act and authorization to try the al-Qaida detainees held in his secret CIA torture prisons. For reasons too simple for many Americans to understand, he's not interested in following the 9/11 Commission's recommendations to shore up security at U.S. harbors or keep a close watch on checked airplane luggage. Those measures, which would obviously make America safer from the inevitable al-Qaida strikes in the future, would cost big business big money.

But what fool would want to take those measures when it's so much more politically practical to scare most of the people one more time?

monroeanderson@gmail.com


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; War on Terror
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It's amazing: if 9/11 had not happened these democrats bozos and their media toadies like Anderson would have absolutely nothing going for them. Anderson runs through the usual talking points about health care, bin Laden, Saddam, the Bush daughters, the draft and ends up with this gem:

"There were 16 million Americans fighting to keep the world safe for democracy in World War II. "


Of course, the war to make the "world safe for democracy" was WWI.
1 posted on 09/10/2006 7:47:21 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief; Howlin; Liz; ALOHA RONNIE; MurryMom

2 posted on 09/10/2006 7:50:44 AM PDT by Libloather (Just declare the UN as an enemy combatant and kick their ass out of this country!)
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To: Chi-townChief
Cabinet members and neo-con sycophants would have us believe we're safer or, depending on political expediencies, not that safe. According to the president's pre-9/11 anniversary speeches on the progress of the war on terror, we're safer than we were before the attacks but not yet safe enough to steer clear of his failed stay-the-course strategy. As Bush explains it, al-Qaida's leadership is decimated but remains dangerous enough to destroy the entire civilized world.

These are concepts that apparently are beyond the comprehension of Democrats. They actually cannot understand how any of this could be true.

Does anyone truly believe that we'd be any safer with a left-wing "Do Nothing But Posture and Bloviate" strategy?

3 posted on 09/10/2006 7:53:33 AM PDT by IronJack (ALL)
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To: Chi-townChief

It's the Liberals who are out there telling us we're not safer not Conservatives.


4 posted on 09/10/2006 7:55:36 AM PDT by kcordell
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To: Chi-townChief

"Watch the politically timed color alert rise and fall on cue."

Tell that to Spain.


5 posted on 09/10/2006 7:59:43 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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To: IronJack

I can totally envision this wackjob, hatefilled, moonbat writing. Furiously hitting the keyboard, wild eyed, heavy breathing, spittle out of his mouth, with every hate-America and hate-Bush keystroke. If they win in November, there is going to be retribution that would make the Jacobins of the French Revolution blush.


6 posted on 09/10/2006 8:01:08 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Chi-townChief

Bush campaigns on reality. The Dems fear reality, in every way, shape, or form.


7 posted on 09/10/2006 8:05:00 AM PDT by LS
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To: Chi-townChief
....failed stay-the-course strategy.

The Dems favorite tactic. Repeat something often enough (evidence not needed) and see if you can fool most of the people most of the time.

8 posted on 09/10/2006 8:10:08 AM PDT by DuxFan4ever (The next rational liberal I meet will be the first.)
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To: IronJack; All

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It's actually a "bit" more WORSE than you would suppose..!!!



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For,

...the Enemy is now Within,
...and always has been.

Only,

...now its our own Freedom that's directly at stake right here at home.



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9 posted on 09/10/2006 8:13:32 AM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: Chi-townChief

Better fear than head-up-the-hindy denial.


10 posted on 09/10/2006 8:13:40 AM PDT by tkathy (Einstein: Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.)
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To: kcordell

What I think the democrats/liberals/lefties/pigressives are trying to say is, "There is no threat of terrorism and we're not safe from it."


11 posted on 09/10/2006 8:42:12 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief
I'm trying to figure this out ...

Question: Are we safer now after 5 years?

Bush: Generally, yes we are.

Democrats: No!! We are LESS SAFE!!! .... oh and BUSH is using the politics of FEAR!!!

12 posted on 09/10/2006 9:28:07 AM PDT by PackerBronco
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To: AbsoluteJustice; Augie76; Barnacle; BeAllYouCanBe; BillyBoy; Bismarck; bourbon; ...

CHICAGOLAND PING


13 posted on 09/10/2006 9:42:21 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief

Bush isn't running. Clinton is STILL running.


14 posted on 09/10/2006 10:00:26 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Chi-townChief
Monroe Anderson: "President Bush and his chorus of Republican pols, Cabinet members and neo-con sycophants..."



Hi Everyone!
I'm Monroe Anderson,
and I'm An Idiot.

15 posted on 09/10/2006 10:08:16 AM PDT by Condor51 ("Alot" is NOT a word and doesn't mean "many". It is 'a lot', two separate words.)
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To: Chi-townChief

...while Clinton parties in Toronto, the city where the following night at approximately the same time as the TV show, the movie DOAP happens to premiere at an International Film Festival?

This was a "birthday party"?


16 posted on 09/10/2006 4:12:47 PM PDT by combat_boots (The MSM: State run Democrat media masquerading as corporations)
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To: Chi-townChief

I find the timing of 9/11 to be very suspicious.

/moonbat


17 posted on 09/10/2006 8:44:49 PM PDT by freedomlover (Sorry, a tagline occurred. The tagline has been logged.)
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To: Chi-townChief

re: "we're safer than we were before the attacks but not yet safe enough to steer clear"

There are at least two totally different world views.

The STATIC view says that if we do specific things we can solve a problem. If we have the right foreign policy and do the right things in the UN, then everybody will love us and the problem is solved. The same holds true for domestic policy. The pie of wealth is a fixed size to ber cut into pieces of equal size. If we transfer money from the wealthy to the poor then will have solved the problem of poverty. And if we outlaw racism then that problem is solved.

The DYNAMIC view says that WE MUST BE EVER VIGILANT. The poor are always with us. The pie is not a fixed size.

Conclusions, opinons, actions are the result of accepting either one pre-supposition or the other.


18 posted on 09/11/2006 5:46:24 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: Chi-townChief

I see that the 9/11 anniversary has brought out quite a few BDS afflicted Drive-By Media hacks.


19 posted on 09/11/2006 5:49:48 AM PDT by PogySailor (Media bias? What media bias?)
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To: PackerBronco

Good point!


20 posted on 09/11/2006 5:50:25 AM PDT by PogySailor (Media bias? What media bias?)
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