Does OBL Hate Freedom? Bush Oozing Fear
September 18, 2006
A friend writes (I am in school when Forum is on and so don't often hear it):
I was listening to the 9/11 edition of KQED's Forum this morning and a caller mentioned a bin Laden quote that I had missed or forgotten: "[regarding] Bush's claim that we hate freedom. Let him tell us why we did not strike Sweden, for example." Another called said she felt "terrorized" by the policies of the Bush administration. That suggested to me a great poll question: "what scares you more, being harmed by terrorists, or the policies of the Bush administration?" Personally I much more concerned about erosion of our liberties and economic justice than I am about being blown up by al-Qaeda. See also: Dick Cheney's 'facts'
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Time to stop the whining. The next time Shrub shockingly actually "politicizes" something, stop whining, you're not in Rick's place. Instead try this:
In delivering a speech commemorating the 6,000 deaths caused by his failures (3,000 on 9/11 after he ignored a clear warning and stayed on vacation and 3,000 in Iraq) , George Bush oozed fear from every pore that he and the Republican Party would be held accountable for his failures:
- The 9/11 disaster from which he cowardly fled in our plane,
- the failure to catch Osama Bin Laden,
- the failure in Iraq,
- the failure to negotiate with North Korea,
- the failure to negotiate with Iran,
- the abject failure of abandoning our fellow citizens to drown in the waters of Katrina in New Orleans while he flew serenely above the disaster in our plane
All these bring closer the day this November when the American people can hold George Bush and every Republican U.S. Representative (and a few Republican Senators) accountable.
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Briefs
- Princeton: Diebold Voting machines: infinitely hackable