The Chimperor is out to remind us all that WE’RE AT WAR!!!!
WASHINGTON –
President Bush used terrorists’ own words Tuesday to battle complacency among Americans about the threat of future attack, defending his record as the fall campaign season kicks into high gear.
Pity you got rid of the color-coded TERRA ALERT! charts that proved so helpful in the last election cycle. Not that those were used politically, oh, no.
Bush said that despite the absence of a successor on U.S. soil to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the terrorist danger remains potent.
Like Atrios, I’m left wondering when the anthrax attacks got turned into something other than terrorism. On U.S. soil, no less. Maybe when they started realizing they didn’t know who the hell had done it and they weren’t going to devote the resources to finding out.
Much easier to pump up the threat by making sure that everyone knows that these are Evil! Men! we’re dealing with here, who are Evil! in Historic! Ways! and Ten! Feet! Tall!
“Bin laden and his terrorist’s allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them,” the president said before the Military Officers Association of America and diplomatic representatives other countries that have suffered terrorist attacks. “The question is `Will we listen? Will we pay attention to what these evil men say?'”
I think he’s a little more worried about whether the country and the world will pay attention any more to what a different evil man says, now that he’s cried wolf so many times.
His speech came after the White House released a strategy paper proclaiming the nation has made progress in the war on terror but that al-Qaida has adjusted to U.S. defenses and “we are not yet safe.”…
In its updated counterterrorism strategy, the White House said that “the enemy we face today in the war on terror is not the same enemy we faced on Sept. 11. Our effective counterterrorist efforts in part have forced the terrorists to evolve and modify their ways of doing business.”
No, George, I think the reason the enemy we’re facing today is not the same one we faced on Sept. 11 is that IRAQ HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11.
And you know what else? Most people in this country have now cottoned onto that fact and are wondering just what the fuck we’re doing over there. And you can stomp your little feetsies that nobody’s paying attention to the bogeyman under the bed, and you can send Condi Rice to tell Essence magazine that people who oppose the war are Just Like People Who Wanted To Keep Slavery, and you can burble about Hitler and Chamberlain and Stalin, but it’s not going to change the fact that you’re a sad, desperate, pathetic little man who’s been allowed to lead this country into hellfire and damnation for far too long by playing into people’s fears about being attacked again. And it’s not going to change the fact that nobody believes a goddamn thing you say anymore.