And I would
think US soldiers have to worry about people shooting at them and
blowing up RDX bombs from material we forgot to secure. Not Dick
Durbin. Oh, and Sen. Durbin, your apology means jack shit. They will
hammer you anyway.
"Liberals saw what happened to us and said we must understand our enemies."
He's right. We want to understand.
We
want to understand why Osama Bin Laden hasn't been captured? Why did
the administration take its eyes off Al Qaida to invade Iraq? I mean,
Al Qaida is the enemy Rove himself said we had to defeat. But we
haven't.
Instead of defeating our enemies, we went to war
against an impotent enemy -- Saddam. And yes, we want to understand.
Like, why did they lie to go to war in Iraq? Why is that war still
going, unabated? Why are we no closer to victory now, than we were in
when Bush declared "mission accomplished"? Why don't our troops have
proper ammo? Why aren't there enough boots on the ground in Iraq? Why
are we still dying in Afghanistan?
He's right. I want to
understand. I don't understand why the administration hasn't called for
sacrifice. Why won't war supporters enlist? Why won't they encourage
their circle of influence to enlist? Why won't they level with the
American people, and give an honest assessment of what's going on in
Iraq and Afghanistan?
I don't understand how our nation, always
the good guys, is now perceived as the "bad guy" the world over. I
don't understand how torture has become a commonplace occurance inside
facilities that bear the stars and stripes.
It seems conservatives send other people to
die in a war they didn't really understand how to fight, much less win.
Funny, I remember liberals supporting them at the time.
It's pretty clear now
that this was a set up orchestrated by the White House in order to
deflect attention away from the disaster that is the war in Iraq, Bush's plumetting polls, and the Downing Street Memos revelations about Bush's lies in the runup to the Iraq war.
President Bush thinks
57% of Americans are traitors who hate America, want to kill our
military, and love Osama bin Laden. 57% of Americans are apparently
happy, or at least not outraged, by the murder of nearly 3,000 people
in NY, VA and PA.
The Democratic Party had better realize that
these people declared war today in a big way. We do not let this issue
go until Karl Rove resigns. There IS no other issue in town, until Karl
Rove resigns.
If Ken Mehlman wants to have a public debate about
who's a bigger man, then "Bring It On". And we'll start by talking
about the President who just killed 1700 Americans in Iraq for a lie,
and still hasn't bothered to attend a single funeral of one of the
soldiers he killed.
Sign the petition to fire Rove here.
The Transportation Security Agency decided to
disseminate a bunch of personal passenger information to private
companies, in violation of a Congressional edict and their own
promises.The issue was naturally brought up at the libertarian magazine Reason's
weblog,prompting this lightning-quick response from somebody who sees
this subterfuge as essential to his not dying a fiery, horrible death:
Who cares? Why does someone's irrational concern about privacy
trump the rest of the passengers being more confident that their plane
will not be used as a human cruise missile by terrorists?
It's part of an
age-old struggle wherein we who are not criminals are constantly called
upon to explain what we're so worried about "If we have nothing to hide."
Sadly, this is what passes for a eulogy at the wake of the Fourth
Amendment(putting aside the lying to Congress, separation of powers,
and completely ineffective airline safety policy).
-- mandatory drug testing for junior high students (Who cares?The
right of your 12-year-old not to pee in a cup outweighs the need to
pacify panicky parents who worry about juiced intrascholalistic chess
competitions?);
-- the ability of cops to basically tear apart your car based on a
busted taillight, or to randomly stop cars for DUI testing on no
probable cause at all (Who cares?Does your quaint addiction to privacy
trumps the confidence by simpletons that the Drug War is being won, two
ounces of weed at a time?).
-- the ability of the FBI to check the reading lists
of library patrons, a power recently rescinded by the House, but it's
not one that they were using anyway, except that they were (Who cares?
What.. you don't want your wife to find out that you've been reading Nancy Drew Mysteries for their erotic passages?)
-- maybe somebody can stop people with forged papers from accessing nuclear weapons plants
first.Or we can continue bask in the feeling of absolute security that
can only come from Grandma having to remove her orthopedic shoes before
flying to Atlanta for Jimmy's graduation.
Well,
I dont know about you guys, but I feel much safer when the government
tucks me in at night...always watching out for me. I just love living in a zero-tolerance society where all problems
are magically solved. There aren't any problems, right?
On the other hand, how will my being treated like a suspicious
criminal prevent another terrorist attack? Based upon news reports I've
read, I
gather that the TSA flunkies will be so busy inspecting my shoelaces
and underwear and looking for plastic explosive in my toothpaste
that they won't have time to check and make sure there are no bombs or
bioweapons in the cargo hold.
