When it comes to terrorism, George W Bush is the cause, not the solution

[mtnsnake]

If it wasn't obvious before, it should be obvious to anyone with a brain by now. He might not be the ONLY cause, but he is a major contributor.

Same for Tony Blair. Same for all the cowardly blowhards like Rush Limbaugh & Hannity. Same for that massive right-wing faction of the Republican Party. Same for those swooning, arm-waving evangelical lunatics. They're all a bunch of chickenshits, and they're all a big part of the cause of future terrorist attacks. They all think the cure for terrorism is by shooting blindly at anything that moves, taking out mostly innocents in the process. No wonder there are terrorist plots, and it should come as no surprise that there will be many more.

If I were a Democrat running in any future election, I'd be using scare tactics of my own. Yes, the people of the United States ought to be scared of future terrorist attacks, but they need to be scared for all the right reasons, not the reasons that Bush and Cheney are giving them. They need to be scared that any future terrorist plots against us are a cumulative result of the "attack-first/think-later/don't-try-peace" policies of George Bush and the Republican Liars...republican policies that have all failed miserably.

I hate the murdering plotting terrorists, but I blame just as much the catalysts like Bush who are stirring up all the trouble.

The terrorists are the symptom. Bush and his minions are the problem.

[fearthem]

1. Ditto -- he got sidetracked on the wrong war!

[AndyA]

2. Contrary to what Bush has said, the terrorists

don't hate us because of our freedoms, diminishing as they are. They hate us because of the way we forced our way into their region, with our big corporations calling the shots and a government here that backed them in their actions.

Then, instead of going after the terrorists themselves, breaking them up, hunting them down, and putting them on trial for their crimes, we attacked a country who had done nothing to us, nor was in a position to harm us. Billions of dollars later, and hundreds of thousands of lost lives later, we still haven't won that war.

Make no mistake, the terrorists are winning. They've drained our bank accounts, killed our soldiers, and given our government the reason they needed to take our freedoms and rights away from us. Now our government reads all our E-mails, listens to our phone calls, and monitors our bank accounts, all in the name of our own protection.

They can enter our homes without warrants and without knocking. They don't even need a good reason to do so. It's getting to the point where flying isn't an option for traveling any more, because of the delays and restrictions.

Face it America, the terrorists are winning! They have changed the way Americans live their lives and function. They're winning.

And Americans are so complacent and lazy they don't even seem to care anymore. It's a disgrace.

[mtnsnake]

3. Well said

Make no mistake, the terrorists are winning. They've drained our bank accounts, killed our soldiers, and given our government the reason they needed to take our freedoms and rights away from us. Now our government reads all our E-mails, listens to our phone calls, and monitors our bank accounts, all in the name of our own protection.

Bush is also winning, and he's doing it at the expense of his country, at the expense of the world, since he's a major cause of the problem of terrorism. This is the way he likes it. He's a terrorist in his own right.

Good post, Andy.

[CJCRANE]

4. Also it seems

that two of the alleged terrorists in this latest scare were white and recent converts to Islam.

I hope Blair's proud that he now seems to be turning his own indigenous people against him.

[rock]

5. What you said

K & R

[mwb970]

6. My 12-year-old niece asked me how we can stop terrorism.

(We were watching the latest terror news on MSNBC at the time.) I told her there were two basic approaches, namely "kill them all" (the BushCo solution) and "address the root causes" (the America-hating liberal solution). She realizes that the 9/11 attack was a response to US policy, rather than the "they hate us for our freedoms" BushCo line, which impressed me. But was there something more I should have said about how to stop anti-American terrorism?

[mtnsnake]

7. Perhaps dialog & diplomacy, two forgotten arts.

We have to elect leaders who are willing to sit down with other world leaders...and talk...and listen. The only way we'll ever get to the bottom of all this is by understanding where everyone is coming from, and that includes our perceived enemies.

Tell her to also keep fighting for Democrats. No matter how "un-perfect" some of them seem, they're our best hope that future diplomacy will ultimately prevail over bloodshed.

[Smokie Lonesome]

8. Hold up! I know we and they (muslims) hate him...

khobar towers, USS Cole, and a host of other acts happened "Pre-Bush". He may gasoline on the fire, but he didn't strike the match. Let's be fair.

[mtnsnake]

9. I'm talking current & future terrorist plots, not past ones.

He is our present "leader", is he not? He is the one who claimed he'd win the war on terrorism, is he not?

Bush has made a bad situation a thousand times worse. Like I said, he's now one of the major contriubutors to the problem, not the solution. George Walker Bush can and should be blamed for his contribution in any further terrorist plots. He and his minions have failed MISERABLY and they have only incited the terrorists to multiply at an alarming rate against us.

You're right about the gasoline.

[CJCRANE]

10. B*sh does have indirect links

to a lot of "al-Qaeda" terrorism through B*sh family links with the Saudis, Bin Ladens and funding of Afghan Mujahideen (which later became the Taliban and al-Qaeda).

David Ray Griffin's "New Pearl Harbor" is a good primer on this, and I've heard "House of Bush, House of Saud" is good too.