Vice's Verses
The latest excretion from the Republicans on the "unwavering leadership" of George W. Bush comes on the heels of Vice's (himself a heel with considerable credentials) comments regarding the ever present danger of the imminent terrorist attack. To wit, "vote for Kerry/Edwards and expect to be attacked", or, more succinctly, "vote for John Kerry and you will DIE!". Was Cheney (gulp!) politicizing the War On Terror!? Do ya think?
Before the words had barely left Vice's sneering lips the RNC dispatched its foot soldiers, a familiar cast of sycophants, supplicants, and apologists, to cable TV, including the perennially gnathonic Congressman David Dreier (R-CA). Dreier is as loyal a toady as a toady can aspire to be. On Keith Olbermann's cable show "Countdown", Dreier was quick to point out the mite's mass of validity in Cheney's comments. After all, we haven't been attacked since September 11, have we?
Well, yeah. Wouldn't you say that we all were caught completely by surprise that September morning? That in the intervening three years we have been, perhaps, a little more diligent in keeping our eye on the eight-ball? Other than the terror alert color-wheel offered us by Tom Ridge, what, if anything, has the Unwavering One and his sinister sidekick done that has been so extraordinarily effective in keeping you and me "safe"? (Answer: "well...we haven't been attacked again").
Why didn't the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor a second time? Maybe because the Americans would have been watching and waiting, (we were expecting bombs over Los Angeles, weren't we?).
Al-Qaeda prepared for years to pull off the attacks of September 11. Given the element of surprise, we're damn lucky that there weren't planes falling in every major city that day. They had their moment of opportunity and they used it very effectively. Now they're on everyone's radar, even the CIA's, the FBI's and that of the White House, (I won't rehash all of the chatter that the "Unwavering Leader" and his heroic henchman chose to ignore while vactioning in Crawford during August of 2001. Read the "9/11" report. It's no "Warren Report".)
It's not surprising to me that there hasn't been a subsequent attack on US soil. What's surprising is how this "war president" has shamelessly used the attacks to inflate his craven image to comically heroic proportions.
What's even more sadly comical is the image of the fugitive bin Laden and his lieutenants, God (Allah) knows where, patiently planning their next hit, while the princely Bush and his cabal of PhDunces, in control of the massive resources of the mightiest military force in the history of the world, frantically attempt to anticipate the shadowy shiek's next move, of which they haven't a clue.
Before the words had barely left Vice's sneering lips the RNC dispatched its foot soldiers, a familiar cast of sycophants, supplicants, and apologists, to cable TV, including the perennially gnathonic Congressman David Dreier (R-CA). Dreier is as loyal a toady as a toady can aspire to be. On Keith Olbermann's cable show "Countdown", Dreier was quick to point out the mite's mass of validity in Cheney's comments. After all, we haven't been attacked since September 11, have we?
Well, yeah. Wouldn't you say that we all were caught completely by surprise that September morning? That in the intervening three years we have been, perhaps, a little more diligent in keeping our eye on the eight-ball? Other than the terror alert color-wheel offered us by Tom Ridge, what, if anything, has the Unwavering One and his sinister sidekick done that has been so extraordinarily effective in keeping you and me "safe"? (Answer: "well...we haven't been attacked again").
Why didn't the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor a second time? Maybe because the Americans would have been watching and waiting, (we were expecting bombs over Los Angeles, weren't we?).
Al-Qaeda prepared for years to pull off the attacks of September 11. Given the element of surprise, we're damn lucky that there weren't planes falling in every major city that day. They had their moment of opportunity and they used it very effectively. Now they're on everyone's radar, even the CIA's, the FBI's and that of the White House, (I won't rehash all of the chatter that the "Unwavering Leader" and his heroic henchman chose to ignore while vactioning in Crawford during August of 2001. Read the "9/11" report. It's no "Warren Report".)
It's not surprising to me that there hasn't been a subsequent attack on US soil. What's surprising is how this "war president" has shamelessly used the attacks to inflate his craven image to comically heroic proportions.
What's even more sadly comical is the image of the fugitive bin Laden and his lieutenants, God (Allah) knows where, patiently planning their next hit, while the princely Bush and his cabal of PhDunces, in control of the massive resources of the mightiest military force in the history of the world, frantically attempt to anticipate the shadowy shiek's next move, of which they haven't a clue.
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