Tony Snow (OpEd): President has weakened al-Qaeda, made USA safer from attack

[sabra]

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070719/oppose19.art.htm

Victory in Iraq is vital
President has weakened al-Qaeda, made USA safer from attack.

By Tony Snow

Politics sometimes manages to muddle the obvious. The war in Iraq, authorized by three-quarters of the Senate, was launched in response to Saddam Hussein's refusal to abide by 17 United Nations resolutions — and by the fact that Saddam clearly supported terror movements around the world. We never argued that he played a role 9/11; political opponents manufactured the claim to question the president's integrity.

Politics has muddied another fact: Our enemies started fighting long before 2001. Terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. They hit the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, U.S. Embassies in East Africa in 1998 and the USS Cole in 2000. All the while, Osama bin Laden was advocating war against the United States and building a terror network from camps in Afghanistan.

The most astonishing argument is the claim the United States (or the Bush administration) is responsible for this terror wave. Terrorists are responsible for terror, period.

The al-Qaeda of 2001 no longer exists. We've killed or captured two-thirds of its senior leadership. The new National Intelligence Estimate says our nation has become a tougher target. That's because our government has adopted aggressive measures to gather intelligence, protect Americans and strike enemies before they can strike us.

[CottonBear]

1. Tony Snow: liar. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

2. That's great! So we can stopped being unreasonably scared of everything now, right?

[karlrschneider]

3. Baghdad Bob got nuthin' on our Snowjob.

:puke:

[msongs]

4. war is peace, hate is love, down is up, bush is a decent human being nt

[CottonBear]

5. "We never argued that he played a role 9/11; political opponents manufactured the claim...

...to question the president's integrity."

:grr: Liar, liar, liar. :grr:

[underpants]

6. Wow 4 paragraphs and he lies, shows that reality is a far and distant place to him,

and creates a strawman (W created terror? I've never read that anywhere ...oh he must be insinuating about 9/11 theories)

Tony is pushing the envelope on SUCK

[TheBaldyMan]

7. President Bush gets a Snowjob. n/t

[Babsbrain]

8. Dear Tony:

You seem like a nice guy. Sorry you have cancer and it has spread. Go home.

signed,

75% of the American people

[michaz]

9. The only thing Bush has weakened is the military!

[NI4NI]

10. But still NOT as long as Clinton kept the "homeland" safe

8 years and 9 months passed by in-between the first and second WTC bombings.
2/1993 until 9/2001

5 years and 10 months have passed by since the 9/11/2001 attack until now.

Hey, SnowJob what is the total number of Americans killed, and the number of terrorrists brought to justice for each attack?