Before September 11 he ignored the warnings about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda’s plot to commit terrorist atrocities on American soil. He has failed to protect and defend the United States.
When bin Laden was cornered in his Tora Bora hideout we paid Afghan warlords for his head. Bin Laden paid them more and remains at large. We passed up an opportunity to capture and punish bin Laden.
At a cost of 3000 lives, thousands of injuries, and hundreds of billions of dollars our dramatic show of force in Iraq toppled Saddam from power. However, it distracted us from the mission in Afghanistan, destabilized Iraq, delivered Iraq into the hands of our enemy and strengthened the hands of the terrorist states Iran and Syria.
The Russians see us as soft and weak, believing that we have repeated their mistakes in Afghanistan and upped the ante in Iraq.
The Administration’s answers include a stubborn refusal to look at the facts, questioning the patriotism of their critics, exposing our intelligence agents, torture, illegal wiretaps and now claiming the power to open our mail without a warrant. The President is trampling the Constitution he has sworn to uphold and defend.
Russia, Iran and Syria feel emboldened as they see us as bogged down in a quagmire in Iraq. We should declare victory in Iraq and redeploy to bases in Iraqi Kurdistan and aircraft carriers in the Gulf. This will save American lives and defend American interests.
He's definitely failed to protect the United States. No doubt about it.
ReplyDeleteAnd he intends to continue to do this. Until he is called into account.
Of course, so far he has disregarded any of that, too.
One's head could just explode here.