Ellen Goodman: What Is Safe Enough?

[stickdog]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50823-2004Jan2.html

Could we rewind the videotape to Dec. 15, when Howard Dean qualified his pleasure at the capture of Saddam Hussein by saying that it "has not made America safer"? Dean was instantly lambasted by his opponents, especially Joe Lieberman, who said the doctor was climbing "into his own spider hole of denial."

Well, six days later, after the sort of terrorist "chatter" designed to make your teeth chatter, the country was put on orange alert for a "spectacular" attack rivaling those of Sept. 11. Then six Air France flights destined to fly into the homeland were grounded. And finally, under "emergency rules," our government has required armed guards on foreign flights.

Are we safer yet?


Good question, Ellen.

An even better question is why Democrats felt compelled to lie about this -- propping us George Bush in comparison to any Democratic candidate in the process.

[RC]

1. We will NOT be safer untill

bu$h&co are in prison for their war crimes.

[Rose Siding]

2. A "retrospectascope". ha!

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I remember what an administration official said about Pakistan's nuclear arsenal: "It's what we don't know that worries us." He could have said it about anything. We'll recognize the right choices only when we look back in that instrument Dr. Dean describes ironically as a "retrospectascope."
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I'm glad she's back. Wasn't Ellen out for a while? cancer, maybe?

[Scott Lee]

3. "Safe enough" appears to be determined by one's hate of Howard

As evidenced on many posts of late.