Fisking Reid: As Easy As It Gets, Part II

Democrats are convinced that they can win the national security issue this year. To emphasize their 'seriousness', Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid issued a statement on that subject:
Today the president once again tried to convince Americans that he's taken all the steps necessary to keep them safe. Unfortunately, the facts of the last five years aren't that convincing.
Sen. Dipstick, the facts are that (a) we haven't had another successful terrorist attack since 9/11 and (b) we've thwarted numerous attacks, including thwarting the terrorist plot in England last week plus the capturing three Arab-American youth with 1,000 cellphones that were likely part of a plot to blow up the Mackinac Bridge on Labor Day weekend. That isn't even including capturing terrorists that wanted to blow up a skyscraper in Chicago and the Lackawanna 6.
Five years after 9/11, the President still has not taken the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from taking explosives onto airplanes.
Five years after 9/11, the President took steps that prevented terrorists from taking liquid explosives onto at least ten airliners flying from the U.K to the U.S.
Five years after 9/11, al Qaeda has morphed into a global franchise operation, terror attacks have increased sharply across the world and the President has shut down the program designed to catch Osama bin Laden.
Five years after 9/11, al Qaeda has morphed into a global franchise operation because President Bush's policies have killed or captured most of AQ's leadership and put the rest of them on the run. AQ had to morph into smaller franchises because of the damage that they've sustained as part of the President's policies.
"Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, the chairman and vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, said this week that that the Iraq war has depleted our resources and distracted the Bush Administration from making homeland security a priority. These failures demonstrate that the lessons of 9/11 are being ignored by the White House and the Do Nothing Republican Congress.
The Bush administration's successes point to the President's wisdom in choosing policies that have kept us safe for almost five years following 9/11.
We must change course in Iraq, and implement the bipartisan 9/11 Commission recommendations so that we are doing all we can to protect Americans at home and abroad.
Wrong, Moosebreath. We must not change course from intelligent Bush administration policies. The last thing we need is a Senate Majority Leader Reid, especially after Reid's infamous "We just killed the Patriot Act" statement.

I'd doubt that that's the type of direction many Americans want to take.

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Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:20 PM

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