By Cernig
The day after Memorial Day, this post by John Hindraker is top of the bill on NRO's "web briefing". It claims to show that Bush has made America safer during his tenure by listing a "partial history" of terror attacks on US interests. Here's the bit of that list that proves Bush made America safer:
2004
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.2005
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.2006
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.2007
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.2008
So far, there have been no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.
So what are all these people then? Chopped liver? If Iraq and Afghanistan aren't "American interests abroad" then why have over 4,000 US servicemen died fighting there, John?
And if you needed any more proof that John Hindraker's sanity has left the building, there's this entry:
1999
October: Egypt Air flight 990 crashed off the coast of Massachusetts, killing 100 Americans among the more than 200 on board; the pilot yelled "Allahu Akbar!" as he steered the airplane into the ocean.
Only that's not how it happened. Not even close. Hindraker's joined the conspiracy theory crowd here. And then there's this:
I have omitted from the above accounting a few "lone wolf" Islamic terrorist incidents, like the Washington, D.C. snipers, the Egyptian who attacked the El Al counter in Los Angeles, and an incident or two when a Muslim driver steered his vehicle into a crowd. These are, in a sense, exceptions that prove the rule, since the "lone wolves" were not, as far as we know, in contact with international Islamic terrorist groups and therefore could not have been detected by surveillance of terrorist conversations or interrogations of al Qaeda leaders.
But he's just fine with listing this:
1997
February: Palestinian opens fire at top of Empire State Building, killing one and wounding more than a dozen.
Despite even rightwing accounts admitting that attack was by a "lone wolf".
John Hindraker - an intellectually dishonest conspiracy theorist who is dismissively callous about over 4,000 dead troops - is at the top of NRO's weblisting. That says volumes. Hopefully, after November this whole crowd of Bush sycophants who have so poisoned the last seven years and made the world so much less safe will be consigned back to the fringe, where they can mutter about chemtrails and Clinton's homicidal penis.
I know you know, Cernig, that US troops are simply not part of the right wing calculus of "American interests." They never have been, but Assrocket's blindness to 4000+ American deaths simply shows how openly true this is.
ReplyDeleteI've yet to hear one of these jackanapes ever express regret or horror over how badly vets have been treated by the Bush administration, either here or on the battlefield. In fact, they always yowled about media "hit jobs" over anything exposing the administration's intense lack of concern for US troops. Water Reed, body armour, humvees, multiple deployments, suicide rates, none of this concerns them and it never has.