Repubs claim U.S. will be attacked again, but fail to see the irony

[ProSense]

Guiliani: We Are Going to Be Attacked Again
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207934,00.html

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, yet every day of the illegal occupation, Bush callously sacrifices three American lives and contributes to the death of 50 to 120 innocent Iraqis.

On average:

Three American soldiers die every day in Iraq
http://icasualties.org/oif/Days.aspx

Seventy-five Iraqies are killed
http://www.iraqbodycount.org
http://www.zmag.org/lancet.pdf

That's 78 deaths per day, which means that every month of the U.S. illegal occupation of Iraq is equivalent to a terrorist attack the scale of 9/11:

August 2418
September 2340
October 2418
November 2340
December 2418

and so on...

[Kutjara]

1. We're committing 9/11s over there...

...so they don't commit them here. Or something like that. I've got a headache.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. People die, and the Republicans gloat

Sickening, isn't it?

--p!

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Killing Iraqis makes us safer or something like that.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Blame it on Stategery

Republican Strategery

[leesa]

5. Connecting dots just ain't their strong point.

[gumby]

6. The Entire Right-Wing Chorus

Is singing the same tune:
We're gonna be his again, lalala
World War III, World War III, lalala

They're telegraphing what they are going to do.

We are in BIG trouble.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. But, but, I thought King Georgie had made us so much safer?

[ProSense]

8. Who is minding the store?

The President

Bush, on a Quick Trip From His Texas Ranch, Says Americans Are Safer Than Before Sept. 11

Jason Reed/Reuters

President Bush spoke at Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay, Wis. He said the United States was “at war with Islamic fascists.”


By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: August 11, 2006

CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug 10 — President Bush tried to assure Americans on Thursday that antiterrorism measures taken since the Sept. 11 attacks had made them safer while acknowledging that danger remained — part of a balancing act in which his aides portrayed him as deeply involved in dealing with the foiled airline plot even as he continued his vacation here.

Snip...

Several senior Republican strategists were also uneasy with the possibility that images of President Bush’s activities in the past week, including bicycle rides in the 100-degree Texas heat, could be used to accuse him of being too casual about the potential terrorist threat.

Snip...

“A policy of casual nonchalance is not a winning strategy,” said one Republican close to the White House, who suggested that the president should, at the least, deliver a primetime television address from the Crawford ranch.

Instead, Mr. Bush stuck to his schedule; after Thursday’s metal plant tour, he attended a fund-raiser for John Gard, a candidate for an eastern Wisconsin Congressional seat; the event raised $500,000. On Friday, he will travel down the road from his ranch, Prairie Chapel, to the Broken Spoke, a neighboring ranch, for another fund-raiser.

more...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/world/europe/11prexy.html