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September 7th, 2007
04:54 pm - Yes, we are so safe
I just saw one of those "Freedom's Sound" commercials paid for by some Right-Wing chickenhawk nuts out in Arizona somewhere (they're so formidable I can't even find their Web site). This one had pictures of some woman and her kid and she was saying "you know, I'm glad we're fighting terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, because if we weren't, THERE'D BE MORE ATTACKS HERE." And then the words "more attacks" flash across the screen near her face. And then she tells you to call your congressman and ... well, I don't know exactly what you'd say. "Gee Mr. Congressman, that commercial sure was scary! Make sure the bad men in turbans don't come to kill me, K THX!"
And I keep thinking about all those nutty commentaries I've been hearing about lately that say something to the effect of "all we'd need is another attack on U.S. soil, THEN all those chickenshit Libtards would see the light of Bush's gospel!"
HOW? How would another attack on the United States NOT discredit Bush's strategy? Wouldn't another attack show EXACTLY how Bush's line of "we're fighting them there so they don't fight us here" is completely wrong? Has anyone else ever noticed that we've never stopped a plot against the U.S. originating in Iraq? All the random Arabs driving around the South with a trunk full of cell phones, all the extremists signing up for flight classes in Florida, all the wacky kids doing jihad bootcamp in abandoned warehouses (also in Florida, oddly, perhaps we should be at war with Florida), that all happens here anyway! And it's not the war in Iraq that allowed us to find them before they did anything nefarious, it's POLICE AND SO-CALLED HOMELAND SECURITY! What a crazy concept: Protect the HOMELAND and maybe people won't be able to attack it!
And how is it that videos of Osama bin Laden somehow always give Bush a bump in the polls? This latest one may or may not, but doesn't his presence just remind everyone that Bush and his Cabinet of Death HAS FAILED MISERABLY IN ITS ONLY CLEARLY STATED MISSION? "Dead or alive?" What happened to that? Hell, even Osama knows we know this war is bullshit, and our president is bullshit (he says so in his latest video, released today), but he also knows Democrats are too goddamn weak-kneed to hold anyone accountable in any real way. OSAMA IS MORE IN TOUCH WITH OUR CITIZENS THAN OUR PRESIDENT AND MOST OF OUR CONGRESS. And he lives in a CAVE in the PAKISTAN area, for fuck's sake!
John Edwards seems to be the only mainstream candidate to completely rebuke the Bush Administration's "War on Terrah" (yes, Mike Gravel, Ron Paul and Denny Kucinich are there too, but they ain't doin' nothin' unless one of them gets a spot in somebody's Cabinet in 2009), so he's the one who's got my completely meaningless vote for the Democratic nomination (and, really, let's be real: The Presidency of these United States). He's also the only one who doesn't sound like he's been taking crazy pills. NO I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M TALKING ABOUT JOHN EDWARDS EITHER, I'M JUST VENTING.
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