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Kicking Ass: A Liberal Tradition

Garance Franke-Ruta over at the American Prospect's weblog writes the following:

Instead of attacking the patriotism of liberal victims of 9-11, Rove and the president should focus on catching bin Laden. The United States defeated Adolf Hitler’s army and the Italian fascists in three and a half years, but nearly four years after we got hit by Al-Qaeda, bin Laden is still at large and there appears to be no concerted effort to find him, even though CIA chief Porter Goss recently said we have "an excellent idea" where he is.

As they say, go read the whole thing (don't worry, it's short). This brings up a point that really grinds at my sensibilities. Conservatives have sold the American public the falsehood that Republicans are tougher than Democrats and Liberals, and the "liberal" media has gladly carried the torch for them. In fact, President Bush rode to re-election on exactly that issue. Exit polls show that 22% of those voted for Bush did so because of terrorism/Iraq (and not, by the way, on "moral values").

Need I remind everyone that after America was attacked on December 7th, 1941, our President attacked and destroyed those who sought fascist world domination? And that man happened to be a LIBERAL? Given Vietnam was a nasty tragedy, when Presidents Kennedy and Johnson perceived a threat, did they not attack? Note to Conservatives, they were DEMOCRATS. Both of them.

As Garance notes, we filthy, stinking liberals wanted the Taliban and Osama bin Laden smashed into bits after 9/11. I remember reading a plea from an Afghan-American after 9/11, pleading with anyone who would listen, to not bomb Afghanistan back to the stone age because it was already there. I thought to myself, sorry dude, we're coming, and our fury is coming with us. The Bush administration has failed to apprehend or kill both bin Laden and Mullah Omar. Failed. Liberals were dedicated to crushing the freaks that ruled Afghanistan, and to helping the Afghan people rebuild their devastated country. Instead of finishing the job, the Cheney administration shifted personnel, money, and materiel to take out a neutered whimp with no weapons, no air force, and a frail army.

I hope the big "Mission Accomplished" fanfare continues to haunt Republicans. The real man had to ride around in a wheelchair, stricken by polio, but his legacy shows he meant business, and the threats at the time were real. Nowadays we have a chickenshit fake that parades around on the deck of an aircraft carrier, crowing about how he dethroned a toothless, piss-ant wannabee. What a total phony.

posted by FuzzFinger @ 6/23/2005 05:20:00 PM