Wednesday, May 20, 2009

At Its Core The Republican "Case" Is A Sham-- They Didn't Keep Us Safe At All

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Crazed and rejected, the GOP Left Behinds have nothing better to do than carp and complain that Obama is making America less safe. Experienced from years of their bullshit, no one believes them-- except themselves. Jack Goldsmith is a professor at Harvard Law, a member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law, and a former Assistant Attorney General in the Bush Regime. I doubt Cheney has enjoyed reading his book, The Terror Presidency: Law And Judgment Inside The Bush Administration. Nor will Cheney or any of the other apologists for the Bush years find much solace in a NeoCon-lite examination of why President Obama is waging a more effective war on terror than Bush did, The Cheney Fallacy in the current issue of The New Republic. I'm no fan of Goldsmith's but his readers can't walk away still buying the absurd premises pushed by the Inside the Beltway media that Cheney is a serious voice rather than a pathetic sore loser and lightweight hack.

Despite the media spin, polls show that most Americans prefer Obama's national security policies. They see Obama as a countervailing force between "the liberal left," whatever that's supposed to mean, and Dick Cheney. Most Americans think Obama is doing a better job-- by a 2 to 1 margin-- than Bush did. Like me, I bet a lot of Americans cringe when they hear toadies like Cheney and Sean Hannity claiming, as though any sentient being would ever buy their snake oil, that "Bush kept us safe." Bush didn't keep us safe; Bush was a vital part of the 9/11 tragedy. He failed to keep us safe and then compounded the damage with his wrongheaded, opportunistic responses from the next seven catastrophic years. The worst president in the history of the United States didn't acquire that sobriquet by keeping the nation safe.

You may have seen (or read about) former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura-- an ex-Navy Seal who's experienced waterboarding-- on >The View or on Larry King's show
He made the point that George W. Bush was the worst president of his lifetime and offered to waterboard Dick Cheney.
"It's drowning. It gives you the complete sensation that you are drowning... I'll put it to you this way: You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.... I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it, because torture is against the law.

Yesterday he absolutely pulverized Sean Hannity on his own show. Take a look:

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3 Comments:

At 1:21 PM, Blogger Jack Jodell said...

I get SO disgusted with this lying Republican mantra of how Bush and Cheney kept us safe. Ventura, whom I don't often agree with, nailed that blind little liar Hannity and basically said it all here! But one thing he didn't mention, and few do, is the way Bush and Cheney left our southern border wide open their entire term. ANYBODY could have crossed that border and brought anything in as well. This fact made me highly suspicious of the so-called "war on terror." Had those lying yahoos Bush and Cheney REALLY been concerned with our security, they would have made our borders and ports tighter than a drum starting 9/12, but they never did. Instead, they used 9/11 as a political tool to crush liberals and Democrats, to implement their far-right authoritarian, pro-business agenda, and to invade Iraq. And, of course, they left our borders and ports wide open to let a huge influx of cheap illegal immigrant labor to occur so as to keep workers' wages down and destroy our labor unions. That's why Hannity, Cheney, and all the other GOP parrots are lying idiots when talking about our safety.

 
At 5:27 PM, Blogger Juan Liberale said...

If we'd had eight more years of republican tyranny, the border problem would have solved itself. It would be Americans swimming the Rio Grande looking for work and trying to find a way to put food on their families.

 
At 3:13 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

bush and cheney didn't give a crap about terrorism.....all they were worred about was tax cuts for big business and helping the energy industry. all they ever did was to let big business write all the bills....medicare drug plan,clear skies act,etc j lewis south carolina

 

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