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I have been saying for years – YEARS – that I never hear ANY Republican talk about the need to get Osama Bin Laden. This is literally the first and only editorial or comment that I have ever heard from a rightwinger that acknowledges the enormous failure of the Bush administration to respond in ANY WAY to the attacks of September 11th which happened on their watch!
When you think honestly about who it is that outrages the rightwing, it is ALWAYS the American people they despise! NEVER Bin Laden! Whether it’s those silly east coast “liberals” or the west coast “hedonists”, their intense anger is ALWAYS directed at American people - NOT Al Qeada! Bin Laden and Al Qeada are merely mascots trotted out each election cycle to rally votes – which speaks volumes for why the Bush administration has maintained their hands-off policy on him.
Bush has made Osama Bin Laden a victorious hero throughout the Middle East, and with the sole exception of this editorial, the rightwing is largely indifferent to that massive failure of leadership and the shameful impotence that they have cast the United States in on the world stage.
If this was 7 years after Pearl Harbor (which would make it December 1948!) and the US government had decided not to respond to Japan, (or as Bush boasted to “not think about” the person who had attacked us) it would seem largely a historic fact that regardless of what the future holds, Japan had victoriously killed thousands of Americans and faced NO reprisal – NO comeuppance!
That's called winning, folks!
Can anyone honestly deny that the Bush administration’s hands-off approach to Bin Laden has made him the clear victor over the United States?
Osama Bin Laden won – THANKS to the weakness, incompetence, cowardice, and impotence of George W Bush, Dick Cheney, and the Republican Party!
