Thursday, May 04, 2006

Since 9/11. . .

Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics:
". . .Played on this May day of prayer for a nation being steered by a man who long ago wore out his presidential pew propaganda, I can only think how little we've learned since 9/11.

Where is Osama? Roaming free. Other terrorists disappeared. No one held accountable for that day.

Where are we? In Iraq, following a path our president took when he had other choices he could make. He let slip his true mission just days after we were hit. A 'crusade' he said. Then corrected himself, but everyone knew he had uttered exactly what he had meant. There was no going back. Our fate sealed.

But when you look at 9/11 through the prism of the Bush presidency today the message is clear. After 9/11 came Katrina, and in the middle of those two horrors is placed the Iraq war, as the good work our military did in Afghanistan disintegrates back to recurring stories of the Taliban and poppies. How can one man and one political party be caught on watch for three such calamitous disasters, all of which were handled worse than the one before. It is not a coincidence. If ignorance is bliss, the Republicans must be living Nirvana. To claim happenstance for such carnage would defy the facts for fiction, which is what President Bush and the Republicans have been doing for years.

9/11... the Iraq war... Katrina... civil war in Iraq... Afghanistan welcomes back the Taliban... God help us for what comes next.

A handful of heroes on United 93 took charge in a hopeless situation and changed the course of one disaster. When are the American people going to wake up and change the path of the politics that year after year brings yet another disaster for this nation? We need more heroes."

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