Fisking Menendez & Schumer
This must be my lucky day.
First I got to fisk Nancy Pelosi's statement on homeland security.
Now I get to fisk Bob Menendez's and Chuck Schumer's statement on homeland security.
It hasn't done much except if you consider Gen. Abizaid's plan for keeping AQ terrorists out of East Africa a great accomplishment. If that's your idea of failure, then I'd like another decade of that type of failure.
In short, by what objective measure can these Democrats say that their "new direction" is guided by "tough and smart policies" that will make America safer and the world more stable? Or is their rhetoric just part of their daily PR campaign?
Posted Wednesday, September 6, 2006 11:32 PM
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Republicans now even propose to spend tens of millions of dollars on a PR campaign to change the news coverage in Iraq instead of changing the policies that have left that country in chaos on the brink of civil war, a flawed plan Senator Menendez is addressing with a new amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations bill currently before the U.S. Senate.Senators, Please explain why you think it's our policies "that have left that country in chaos on the brink of civil war." Why don't you tell the truth and admit that Iran's meddling is the real reason for the sectarian violence? Why don't you tell the American people that there likely wouldn't be this level of sectarian violence if Iran's mullahs weren't funnelling money, munitions and supplies to Muqtada al-Sadr with the purpose of starting a civil war?
Democrats believe it is long past time for a change to policies that reflect the lessons learned five years ago on September 11th, 2001.Just what are those lessons, Senators? That we shouldn't honor our commitments to a fledgling democracy that can't defend itself yet? That we turn Iraq over to being the next AQ base? That seems to be what your 'new direction' seems to be. Forgive me if I don't find your logic persuasive.
"Instead of real port security, better communications between our first responders, and a true plan for success in Iraq, the Bush administration has opted for a $20 million public relations campaign on Iraq. Public Relations and spin won't make America safer and won't improve conditions on the ground in Iraq. We need a new direction instead of the same failed course."Do you notice a pattern here? Every Democrat worships at the altar of the 9/11 Commission's recommendations like they were inspired by God Himself. Forgive me if I don't give them that level of unquestioned support. Forgive me if I think that the Bush Administration's track record is so impressive in thwarting terrorist plots both here and overseas, in gathering intelligence, in capturing AQ operatives, in killing the insurgents' mastermind Zarqawi. All while freeing 50+ million people from tyrants' rule. Other than that, the Bush Administration hasn't done much, has it?
It hasn't done much except if you consider Gen. Abizaid's plan for keeping AQ terrorists out of East Africa a great accomplishment. If that's your idea of failure, then I'd like another decade of that type of failure.
Republicans remain tied to failed policies that have made America less safe and the world more dangerous, and it is time for a change.Senators, Why don't you give us specific examples of what policies you think are failures? You keep repeating the same line over and over again but you don't ever include specifics. Do you just expect us to take your word that the President's policies are failures? John Kerry expected us to take his word that President Bush's policies were failures. We didn't believe him then just like we don't trust you now. Considering how often you've railed against the President's policies just to disagree with him, I don't see any reason to trust you on national security matters.
Instead of new PR campaigns, Democrats are fighting for a new direction, with the tough and smart policies need to give the American people the real security they deserve.All that Democrats have offered thus far is an unending PR campaign. They've repeated the mantra of "a new direction", charting a new course with "tough and smart policies." Funny how I don't remember anything specific about those "tough and smart policies." Funny how I don't recall how these "tough and smart policies" have led to the capture of terrorists or how they've thwarted terrorist plots or how they've solved the sectarian violence in Iraq.
In short, by what objective measure can these Democrats say that their "new direction" is guided by "tough and smart policies" that will make America safer and the world more stable? Or is their rhetoric just part of their daily PR campaign?
Posted Wednesday, September 6, 2006 11:32 PM
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