It’s Taken Over Five Years But…
29 September 2006George Bush has finally stood up and is saying what needs OT be said. In a speech in Birmingham at a Republican fundraiser for Alabama Gov. Bob Riley Bush said: “Five years after 9/11, the worst attack on the American homeland in our history, Democrats offer nothing but criticism and obstruction and endless second-guessing.” Truer words have never been spoken.
Several weeks ago I wrote a column titled A Critical Lack of Decisive Leadership in which I argued that Bush needed to stand up and cast the vision. We’ve waited a long time but he finally seems to be getting it.
Finding a new energy Bush said “the party of FDR, the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run.”
Bush has tended to avoid direct political attacks against Democrats but it appears he’s take the gloves off now. Responding to Democrat criticisms erroneously based on the NIE, Bush fired back saying;
The Democrats can’t have it both ways. Either they believe that Iraq is a distraction from the War on Terror or they agree with the intelligence community and the terrorist themselves that the outcome in Iraq is important to the War on Terror. Truth is the Democrats used the NIE to mislead the American people and justify their policy to withdraw from Iraq.
I strongly believe that Iraq is a central front in the War on Terror. The Democrats may not think so, but Usama bin Laden does.
Bush also went after the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harmon. Without naming her Bush quoted her remarks claiming that removing Hussein was a bad idea.
Some Democrats in Congress say we should not be fighting the terrorists in Iraq, it was a mistake to go into Iraq in the first place. I think these Democrats must answer a question. Do they really believe that we’d be better off if Saddam Hussein were still in power? If this is what the Democrats think, they need to make this case to the American people – that the world would be better off if Saddam Hussein were still in power.
Bush then went after Democrats on the handling of terrorists the US holds at gitmo.
I want to remind you of the vote. The bill passed over the objections of 163 House Democrats, including the entire Democratic leadership. We must give our professionals the tool necessary to fight this War on Terror and those in the House of Representatives were wrong to vote against this bill.
Democrats have repeatedly called for the release of the entire NEI, saying the American people have a right to know what it says. The administrations counters that the report is filled with references to intelligence gathering techniques and identifies sources and releasing it would damage national security and endanger those sources. House Speaker wanna be, Nancy Pelosi, said that Bush has selectively released sections of the NEI for political reasons. No word from Pelosi about the selective leak of portions of the NEI for political reasons that benefited the Democrats.
Radio talk host Neil Boortz had this to say about the Democrat response.
The Democrat’s response? Well .. Bush hasn’t caught Osama bin Laden yet. Well, guess what? The Allies never captured Adolf Hitler or Tojo during World War II. Does that mean we didn’t prevail? After the Germans were routed did the “loyal” opposition in this country start screaming that we hadn’t captured Hitler yet? Fact is, we never got him. He managed to take himself out before we could get to him. I guess that means we failed.
The bottom line is this. The Democrats have pulled out all the stops to win in November. While that is understandable, their willingness to distort facts and outright lie are disturbing at best. And now President Bush is finally fighting back. It’s about time. If he’ll keep it up and vigorously defend his positions and actions in this war, his popularity will increase, the American people will understand that we are doing and the Republican party will maintain its majority in both houses of Congress. It’s really that simple.
Sources: FOX News, Neil Boortz,
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