No Attacks Since When?

I think people like Peggy Noonan make ridiculous assertons such as this to justify or rationalize their own support of the Bush Adminstration its horrible polices. They need to assuage the guilt they feel over the war and all the needless deaths that never would have occurred had Bush not been elected President (by them).

Iraqis and Afghanis?? C’mon, Bob. She meant attacks on real people!

This has been a persistent irritation of mine for a long time. To me, saying because we haven’t had a major terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11 that compares to the likes of 9/11 is completely insane considering we didn’t have one of that caliber since Pearl Harbor before 9/11. Beyond that, it’s like saying that since we haven’t been destroyed by a meteor since Bush has been in office it is reasonable to assume he has protected us from that as well. I haven’t died of cancer since he was in office either so I guess I should thank him for that too.

And this: the one big thing he had to do after 9/11, the single thing he absolutely had to do, was keep it from happening again. infuriates me. In fact, the one big thing he had to do after 9/11, the single thing he absolutely had to do, was to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, which he took an oath to do, and he failed miserably!

>>it’s like saying that since we haven’t been destroyed by a meteor since Bush has been in office it is reasonable to assume he has protected us from that as wellRight! In my book, I quote Lynn Cheney suggesting “it’s no accident,” and conclude by writing that it absolutely HAS been an accident.

More fairytales from the people who think the country is still center-right. They obviously are more worried about helping Rove and “Bush’s legacy” than reporting reality. And as I was reading, I was totally thinking what ceu verbalized (wrote down?) so, I second her comment!

It really is pathetic……Bush has been such an abject failure that all they have is this hollow, shallow claim to give his presidency some semblance of success. They got nothing. In a way it’s funny that his only accomplishment is something NOT happening.

Bob, thanks for keeping this type of stuff current. I tend to appreciate those who have little appetite for propaganda and propaganda is the name of the game that Noonan is playing.The Bush administration used the anthrax letters as a doorway to Iraq. Once that worked they had no further political use for the letters.It’s not wrong to say that the anthrax letters equals the Patriot Act, because without them there wouldn’t have been enough shock and awe to pass that anti-citizen fear-based document.Of course Noonan and the political elite want to ignore the anthrax letters because they were a deliberate domestic attempt to influence the actions of the United States government. They worked as planned.Anyone really think that in Ivin’s the F.B.I. got their man? An illiterate second grader could see through the case the F.B.I. assembled. But of course it was beyond the mystical and magical powers of our M$M to see this for the propganda operation it was.

There’s also the 2004 attacks on the US embassy in Saudi Arabia, unless you don’t consider that US soil.

Well, everyone seems to be in agreement here, so I’ll just add one comment: Peggy Noonan is a douchebag.

The real danger of this “no attacks mythology” is what it sets up–O’Reilly is already hammering away at the notion that if we get attacked when Obama is in office–”he’s toast.”Terrorism is an asymmetric tactic that can be done by a few people–if anything, Bush’s tenure has exacerbated the situation by literally breeding hatred towards us in the middle east. I do not expect a terrorist attack while Obama is in office, but if it happens the right wing (and probably the BBQ media) will go nuts–I still am surprised that Bush was never really held accountable for 9/11–instead it was used a a badge of some sort. If Gore had been president on 9/11, I honestly think many on the right would have pushed for impeachment.

I had terrorist attacks in my mailbox from the RNC!They kept sending me the A$$ociation with domesticated terrorista threat mail. Hoping I’d vote or send $$ to them.Some of it may have had white powder on it.(Maybe I ought to clean my mailbox.)

Over 4000 Americans have needlessly died violently in Iraq, and Dubya did absolutely nothing about it. Worse, he actually SENT them there for dubious reasons, didn’t give them proper armor or equipment, and had no exit or “victory” strategy.I’m sick of hearing that Dubya “protected us”, when he’s responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians who were slaughtered as well.

While I agree that there have been numerous terrorist attacks in Iraq, Afghanistan, and a handful of attacks in other countries, the assertion that there has not been a single “major” terrorist attack on US soil is still true, depending upon perspective.Were the anthrax letters really foreign terrorist attacks? Where’s your evidence that they were? As for the DC snipers, it’s a mistruth to imply that they had anything to do with foreign terrorists. That has been made clear time and again.After there were no WMD found in Iraq, the rallying cry of the Bushies was to keep the War on Terror off of American soil by taking it to them in Afghanistan and Iraq. They have done that; there is no denying this. Your own statistics cite that the overwhelming majority of terrorist attacks have occurred in these two nations.Still, it’s not good enough. I don’t, for even a moment, believe that the Bushies have had anything to do with an absence of foreign terrorist attacks in the Continental US. I am convinced it has been luck, as well as the foreign terrorists’ desire to go after more readily available, and politically expedient targets in their own backyard. When we leave Afghanistan and Iraq, the terrorists will definitely come back here, and there is no way we will forever foil their every attempt. It’s ludicrous to believe otherwise.

Peggy, metaphorically, liked the ride on the back of the Republican Harley too much to be considered an impartial observer of anything. Shameless, smug, and totally complicit in selling the bad-old-gummit philosophy that landed us in this economic mess today.