Less than 3 years. That is the attention span of the average America. Our friends & enemies forgot just weeks later but the WE WILL NOT FORGET Americans forgot.
Success has it's downside. Since we can't/won't talk about our successful terror stopping endeavors due to national security & the media (national & international) has decided to Lick Bush in '04 & our politicians have decided to politicize our soldiers lives for a few votes we can move on.
Afghanistan is attempting to have free elections. So what. Iraq is free, it's tyrant in custody & his sons killed in the name of justice. So What. Libya has rejoined the world stage, giving up it's weapons (Iraqs?). Doesn't matter.
Nothing matters as long as a certain group of politicians decide it doesn't matter. As long as they aren't in power they will lie, cheat & probably steal. They have Hollywoods help, releasing movies that are nothing but false accusations aimed to weaken a sitting wartime President. The truth behind the charge is irrelevent if the charge is repeated often enough. They are using the media (NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, CNN, al Jazeera) to help spread the allegations. The day of journalism is behind us & the day of spin doctors & sound bites has ovetaken us. Repeat a lie often enough & it becomes allegorical truth.
The weapons we went to war with Iraq over have yet to be found in sufficient numbers to appease the left. They've been found, over & over they've been found but it wasn't sexy enough for a :20 second story on PMSNBC or the BBC. The Hussein family is no longer in violation of 14 United Nations Security Council resolutions, in which he agreed to fully cooperate. Possibly more than a million bodies have been found in mass graves in Iraq. Some were children, brutally cut down before they had a chance to do anything, be anything, see anything. Many were women. Of them, I'd place high wages on most of them being slaughtered after they spent time in rape rooms, possible watching their children get raped & sodomized too. Of course men were exterminated. They were decapitated, shot, burned with fire and/or chemicals, stabbed, beaten & any number of other lovely means of violence.
When we experienced 9/11 we were a nation united. That nation doesn't exist today. It began falling apart as soon as half the country realized we were a conservative nation. A nation more concerned with family & friends than minvans & Starbucks. A nation more concerned with security than being correct. Not long after 9/11 they accusations began by the far left "What did he know & when did he know it" was one that stuck in my craw. Another was "We didn't connect the dots". Well, that has all been shown to be a lifetime of disillusionment with our intelligence agencies. Forgetting that the CIA never ever produces media spin on how we killed those 8 bad guys in Bangledesh before they burned the orphanage to the ground or how we spied on the Soviet Union using their own secret telephone lines. (well, no spin until the USSR is no more). Doing so would not only spell tragedy for the contacts it would allow our enemy to infiltrate our surveillance systems.
On Sunday, Aug 1, 2004 our nations Homeland Security Director, Tom Ridge, called an unusual press conference. He called it to raise the (stupid) colored warning system to HIGH (orange) in metro NYC, northern NJ & Washington DC. They had learned of an investigation al qaeda had underway to determine the best times to damage or destroy certain buidings (listed in another thread). The information came from an arrest of multiple members of al qaeda in Pakistan. One of the detained is a computer geek with lots of goodies sitting around the Pakistani hovel.
Some of the information obtained included names of several America landmark companies (including the TransAmerica bldg in San Francisco.). Among the information gathered was maps, drawings, photographs, notes on times that the surrounding area of the building is most & least busy. security information on the movements & locations of security personel as well as locations of NYPD at any given time. This was not some half assed recon mission. It was detailed reports on the comings & goings of some of the most financially important companies in the world, including the New York Stock Exchange and the International Monetary Fund building.
One day, not even 24 hours, later, The New York Times & the Washington Post (among many many others) ran stories that the information wasn't recent. In fact, Sunday evening I believe, former Democrat Presidential hopeful Howard Dean all but called this information bogus & said it was being used as a ploy to scare the American voter. He and these newspaper stories insinuated that Director Ridge was placing politics over safety. The only newspaper that included an important caveat was, surprisingly, the Los Angeles Times. Kudos to them. The caveat was much of the information obtained by our intelligence was up to 4 years old. Some of it was also as new as January 2004.
Arguing fiscal strategy or who will help the poor widow Jones best is politics. Calling your adversary soft on crime is politcs. Tax breaks for the rich is politics. Using one line from a speech made 23 years ago is politics.
NATIONAL SECURITY IS NOT POLITICS.
Especially during an ongoing war. Especially when we are the target & the enemy has only one goal in mind. The complete eradication of the United States of America. The, the radical muslim terrorists want to kill you. Your mother. Your son. Your wife. Your dog. They want to burn your house to the ground with you in it. The only out they give you is to convert to wassabiism.
Personally I stand with my President. Bring it on.
Reminder. Yes you need it.
Success has it's downside. Since we can't/won't talk about our successful terror stopping endeavors due to national security & the media (national & international) has decided to Lick Bush in '04 & our politicians have decided to politicize our soldiers lives for a few votes we can move on.
Afghanistan is attempting to have free elections. So what. Iraq is free, it's tyrant in custody & his sons killed in the name of justice. So What. Libya has rejoined the world stage, giving up it's weapons (Iraqs?). Doesn't matter.
Nothing matters as long as a certain group of politicians decide it doesn't matter. As long as they aren't in power they will lie, cheat & probably steal. They have Hollywoods help, releasing movies that are nothing but false accusations aimed to weaken a sitting wartime President. The truth behind the charge is irrelevent if the charge is repeated often enough. They are using the media (NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, CNN, al Jazeera) to help spread the allegations. The day of journalism is behind us & the day of spin doctors & sound bites has ovetaken us. Repeat a lie often enough & it becomes allegorical truth.
The weapons we went to war with Iraq over have yet to be found in sufficient numbers to appease the left. They've been found, over & over they've been found but it wasn't sexy enough for a :20 second story on PMSNBC or the BBC. The Hussein family is no longer in violation of 14 United Nations Security Council resolutions, in which he agreed to fully cooperate. Possibly more than a million bodies have been found in mass graves in Iraq. Some were children, brutally cut down before they had a chance to do anything, be anything, see anything. Many were women. Of them, I'd place high wages on most of them being slaughtered after they spent time in rape rooms, possible watching their children get raped & sodomized too. Of course men were exterminated. They were decapitated, shot, burned with fire and/or chemicals, stabbed, beaten & any number of other lovely means of violence.
When we experienced 9/11 we were a nation united. That nation doesn't exist today. It began falling apart as soon as half the country realized we were a conservative nation. A nation more concerned with family & friends than minvans & Starbucks. A nation more concerned with security than being correct. Not long after 9/11 they accusations began by the far left "What did he know & when did he know it" was one that stuck in my craw. Another was "We didn't connect the dots". Well, that has all been shown to be a lifetime of disillusionment with our intelligence agencies. Forgetting that the CIA never ever produces media spin on how we killed those 8 bad guys in Bangledesh before they burned the orphanage to the ground or how we spied on the Soviet Union using their own secret telephone lines. (well, no spin until the USSR is no more). Doing so would not only spell tragedy for the contacts it would allow our enemy to infiltrate our surveillance systems.
On Sunday, Aug 1, 2004 our nations Homeland Security Director, Tom Ridge, called an unusual press conference. He called it to raise the (stupid) colored warning system to HIGH (orange) in metro NYC, northern NJ & Washington DC. They had learned of an investigation al qaeda had underway to determine the best times to damage or destroy certain buidings (listed in another thread). The information came from an arrest of multiple members of al qaeda in Pakistan. One of the detained is a computer geek with lots of goodies sitting around the Pakistani hovel.
Some of the information obtained included names of several America landmark companies (including the TransAmerica bldg in San Francisco.). Among the information gathered was maps, drawings, photographs, notes on times that the surrounding area of the building is most & least busy. security information on the movements & locations of security personel as well as locations of NYPD at any given time. This was not some half assed recon mission. It was detailed reports on the comings & goings of some of the most financially important companies in the world, including the New York Stock Exchange and the International Monetary Fund building.
One day, not even 24 hours, later, The New York Times & the Washington Post (among many many others) ran stories that the information wasn't recent. In fact, Sunday evening I believe, former Democrat Presidential hopeful Howard Dean all but called this information bogus & said it was being used as a ploy to scare the American voter. He and these newspaper stories insinuated that Director Ridge was placing politics over safety. The only newspaper that included an important caveat was, surprisingly, the Los Angeles Times. Kudos to them. The caveat was much of the information obtained by our intelligence was up to 4 years old. Some of it was also as new as January 2004.
Arguing fiscal strategy or who will help the poor widow Jones best is politics. Calling your adversary soft on crime is politcs. Tax breaks for the rich is politics. Using one line from a speech made 23 years ago is politics.
NATIONAL SECURITY IS NOT POLITICS.
Especially during an ongoing war. Especially when we are the target & the enemy has only one goal in mind. The complete eradication of the United States of America. The, the radical muslim terrorists want to kill you. Your mother. Your son. Your wife. Your dog. They want to burn your house to the ground with you in it. The only out they give you is to convert to wassabiism.
Personally I stand with my President. Bring it on.
Reminder. Yes you need it.
