How is 'we ain't bin attacked in 7 yrs' a bragging point?

[Philosoraptor]

I love it when repub assholes pull this lame 'bragging point' about the bush presidency.

DUMBFUCKS, nine eleven happened ON HIS WATCH.

Did he find the perp? Fuck no.

Is Osama still out there threatening us? That's what bush would have you believe.

Will bush retire and drag this bragging point along with him everywhere he goes? Fuck yes. Like it's something to be proud of.

Will we be attacked AGAIN before he leaves office? Well, I guess that's up to him, and it's also up to him whether to warn us or not, he chose not to last time.

[Ian David]

1. We also haven't been hit by an asteroid. That makes Bush The Asteroid President. n/t

[cosmik debris]

2. It's the Elephant repellent.

Remember that old joke?

[lpbk2713]

3. I wouldn't be surprised to learn they have a MIHOP Plan in the works.

For when the BushCo Regime is dethroned. Blackwater will no longer have the role they

have now and it will be in their interest to do something to drum up more business.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. We MUST be vigilant...

:thumbsup:

[Squatch]

4. Well...not being attacked in nearly 7 years is a good thing, in my book.

It's not a validation of Bush's foreign policy, but a positive point, nonetheless.

[CJCRANE]

9. Did Clinton or Gore

say the same thing in 2000?

No, they just did their jobs.

[tuvor]

10. Of course, you must overlook the anthrax attacks to believe that.

[Squatch]

14. Thse were probably fomented by some home-grown

disgruntled American and not a result of foreign policy.

[tuvor]

18. Not sure why the national origin of the anthrax attack matters.

And I'm sure it makes no practical difference to those affected.

Just pointing out that bush cannot claim there were no terrorist attacks on US soil after 9/11.

[Subdivisions]

28. So, "some home-grown disgruntled American"

was able to procure a quantity of weaponized anthrax, very, VERY carefully deposited said anthrax into envelopes that he/she then carried to the post office to mail to members of Congress and several specific news media targets?

Yeah, right.

[Selatius]

29. Those anthrax spores were weaponized. A disgruntled American couldn't have done it alone.

To believe an American could get it out by himself is stretching it.

[yardwork]

36. The anthrax used was military-grade, so it's unlikely it was "just folks" who sent it.

The source of the anthrax was clearly the U.S. government. Maybe some ordinary disgruntled person stole it and mailed it the National Enquirer just after they published embarrassing photos of the Bush girls and then mailed it to Democratic senators and "left-leaning" journalists and maybe there's a more obvious and direct explanation.

[Cosmocat]

a couple of points ...

First, noting that 9-11 happened on his watch to ANY right winger is useless, they have LONG let themselves be programmed to believe it was Clinton's fault that it occurred ... You can't bring them back to reality any way possible, it is all based on mirky ratinonales that Clinton was a pwussy, therefor they saw us as weak, therefor they attacked us ... Doesn't matter ONE iota that it was 9 months into Bush's presidency ...

Second, you can note that the first WTC bombing, that everyone involved with it was brought to justice and is either dead or in prison for the rest of their lives, and every word that you say won't even penetrate their heads ...

Third, you can note that OBL, the man behind 9-11 to this day is free and draws air, and not a word you say will even begin to enter their head ..

[Cosmocat]

15. a couple of points ...

First, noting that 9-11 happened on his watch to ANY right winger is useless, they have LONG let themselves be programmed to believe it was Clinton's fault that it occurred ... You can't bring them back to reality any way possible, it is all based on mirky ratinonales that Clinton was a pwussy, therefor they saw us as weak, therefor they attacked us ... Doesn't matter ONE iota that it was 9 months into Bush's presidency ...

Second, you can note that the first WTC bombing, that everyone involved with it was brought to justice and is either dead or in prison for the rest of their lives, and every word that you say won't even penetrate their heads ...

Third, you can note that OBL, the man behind 9-11 to this day is free and draws air, and not a word you say will even begin to enter their head ..

[sinkingfeeling]

19. So very true!

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. It is lame, but that's all they've got. You're chances are better of

getting run over by a herd of rampaging rhinocerous.

[russian33]

7. there was that little dust up with anthrax too

no pun intended

[lonestarnot]

8. How does one brag over a speck in time? emphasis on does.

And get away with it?

[malaise]

11. I've asked that several times

More proof of the complete inversion of reality. What's more all the MSM hacks bought it lock, stock and barrel.

[zbdent]

12. History repeats itself ... the Right Wing media pundits blamed Clinton

for the WTC attack in 1993, just about a month after Clinton took office ... and then were screaming about how he hadn't "caught" the perps who perpetrated the attack ... despite the fact that they WERE captured ... and ObL hasn't been captured ...

[Hoyt]

13. We went 8 years after the 1993 WTC bombing

without an attack within our borders -- then along came bush. And we didn't have to kill thousands of innocent people (including our guys), become international barbarians, torture, make war profiteers rich, create tens of thousand more "terrorists", etc., to do it.

Pure luck. And despite the biggest manhunt in history (directed by bush), Bin Laden is still free and laughing at bush.

I still remember Tom Ridge in his "retirement" speech saying "thank God we haven't been hit again" as he knocked on the wooden podium.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. See My Post

Just below yours. I said the same thing. I just had a phone call and didn't send if for a few minutes. We had to be writing it at the same time
The Professor

[DireStrike]

31. Did he really knock?

At the same time saying "thank god"? That's interesting.

[Hoyt]

33. I kid you not..

I rolled on the floor and still do thinking about it.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. First Of All, It's Only Six and a Half Years

Secondly, we went 102 months between the first bombing of the WTC and 9/11.

And the repukes said that it was because Clinton did it wrong by handling it as a law enforcement issues, instead of a defense issue. (Or they might say he did NOTHING!)

So, we can do it completely wrong (a sign of failure) and go 102 months, but 77 months is proof of success?

Duh!
The Professor

[kentuck]

20. Then the Japanese leaders must be doing great!

They haven't had a nuclear bomb dropped on them since Nagasaki and Hiroshima...?

[Imagevision]

21. How many years past by since WTC was attacked in 93? (8) so it's

no biggie that we haven't been attacked in 7 years, can you imagine the sh*t hitting the fan if the US. is attacked as in Iraq?

[Beausoleil]

22. We didn't need to be "attacked"

The government/corporate media juggernaut has been more than adequate in terrorizing Americans for the last 7 years.

[donsu]

23. because everyone knows 911 was not a terrorist attack but was a neo con attack

nt

[Winterblues]

24. Republicans believe very much in the adage "We would rather be Feared than Loved"

That is what they are suggesting with this sound bite. They are afraid to attack us. I somehow doubt that very much or there would not be any deaths in either Afghanistan or Iraq. And we know they/Bush* Cabal haven't exerted themselves in ways that would create love and affection for the USA...

[Ezlivin]

25. UNSOLVED ANTHRAX ATTACKS

Yeah, sure we've not been attacked. We have. The culprits are still at large.

Yet strangely enough this administration has conveniently "forgotten" about those series of attacks.

[maxrandb]

26. Used to be with a Navy Aviation Squadron

a shile back, and when of the other squadron screwed something up, we would chant "We're Not Worst, We're Not Worst, We're Not Worst".

It was funny, but I think about it quite often when I see this mis-administration patting themselves on the back about something. We also used to tell people to "Suck Less".

[Johonny]

27. Err

There's 4000+ dead soldiers that get attack everyday. No been attacked? Why do they hate the troops?

[MilesColtrane]

30. Oh come one.

Give them a break.

We haven't been attacked on Bush's watch since the last time we were attacked under Bush's watch.

[HughBeaumont]

32. And arguably, with his foreknowledge.

August 6, 2001. PDB.

Read The Terror Timeline. Sorry, but this attack was no fluke. And people are focusing on ALL the wrong things when branding someone a "conspiracy theorist".

[Proud Liberal Dem]

34. No attacks on American soil for 7 years is pretty darn small "consolation" considering everything

It's shameful (probably worse but I can't think of a strong enough word right now) that it took approximately 3K deaths for the Bush (mis-)administration to even do anything to address Al-Queda/terrorism and their first gut instinct was, instead of deciding to concentrate all of our efforts and resources on hunting down the specific perpetrators/conspirators of 9/11 (as they STARTED doing in Afghanistan), figuring out out to orchestrate an illegal invasion and seemingly endless occupation of Iraq, a country that had NOTHING whatsoever to do with what happened on 9/11, and our (P)resident's misadventure in Iraq has pushed our military nearly to the breaking point, caused the deaths of countless innocent civilians and whose death toll has actually far exceeded the number of people killed here on 9/11. Additionally, the Bush (mis-)administration, in its reckless zeal to invade and occupy Iraq, honked off pretty much the entire world in the process and its willful neglect of Iraq post-invasion has TURNED Iraq into a perpetual disaster zone for its original inhabitants, not to mention fertile breeding ground for Al-Queda/ terrorists and their sympathizers, all of which ultimately makes our country more vulnerable to attacks, if not now, then certainly in the future. In a lot of ways, Bush's handling of and response to 9/11 (that he and Guiliani are for some reason given all kinds of praise for) has probably harmed our country in so many more ways than Bin Laden/Al Queda could have ever dreamed of. Way to go, George, Dick, Condi et. al!
:sarcasm:

[Perry Logan]

35. After 9/11, Osama just had to sit back and watch Bush screw up America.