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War pigs still have the power after all these years. Chickenhawk presidents and advisors with no war experience still plan and fail at making their wars for profit happen.

Innocent Americans and Middle East peoples pay the price in blood for their folly. The shame belongs to you as well as your furer.

The politics of hate *is* sad. And more evident in the acts of the administration than in the opinions of the uninformed. Having an opinion is not necessarily a directly political act. Playing on people’s hates and fears is.

Seen it.

Recently.

Based especially upon the commenters who blame Bush no matter what he does or doesn’t do, I am convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that there are people out there who will not rest, get on Prozac, take a vacation, or even have a day of relative peace in their lives unless they see that breaking news headline flashing on their TV screen, “President Bush Assassinated.”

Don’t tell me that this is not the logical conclusion to BDS. It just is.

Having seen how hate-and-paranoia filled those BDS sufferers really are, I fear for that man’s life and safety. I know, I know the Secret Service is always watching. That’s great.

But I just fear the day when someone passes under their radar and puts two bullets on his brain. I fear to see that day.

And if that ever happens, I will know exactly in which hands I will see his blood. Hint: Not on the victim.

There.

Thank you for taking the time to critique my post Swatting Flies. I found your observations and analysis very helpful. My lack of writing skills may have caused some confusion and for that I apologize.

I want to say right up front that, I do not think Bush in any way had forehand knowledge of or participation in the events that led up to 9-11. Nor did I say in any of my posts that he did. If you got that impression it was your own fantasy.

I was not offering my post as supporting evidence of that notion. Rather, I went outside the topic of Rick’s “Bush Derangement Syndrome” and offered my own alternative theory of want transpired during the first 8 months of the Bush administration regarding the lead up to 9-11. Actually, Swatting Flies is an article I wrote over a year ago after hearing the remarks of Codolezza Rice during her 9-11 commission testimony. Especially the swatting flies remark.

I’ll try to abbreviate my response to your comments.

Re: pre-9-11 terrorist attacks

You said: These attacks weren’t minor by any definition.

A: I said they were relatively minor. I should have said compared to 9-11 they were relatively minor.

Re: the puzzle

The puzzle is; why did the president ignore terrorism for the first 8 months of his administration?

You seem to think I’m saying the puzzle is the meaning of the “swatting flies”.

Re: the meaning of “tired of swatting at flies”

You have to admit it is a strange choice of words to describe the president’s anti-terrorism policy. Anyhow, my best guess as to what he meant was “Clinton’s occasional ineffective Cruise Missile.”

I don’t know, what do you think “he was tired of swatting at flies” means?

Re: Bush coming into office with designs on Iraq

You said: So the Bush administration is making plans for an invasion and post war planning is in it’s very early – hypothetical – stages. (Then you give a list of reasons as to why this would make sense.)

A: You’ve conceded my point that they were focused on Iraq from the beginning. Something the administration denies to this day.

You also seem to be conflating routine military planning with what was the focus of the National Security Counsel in the White House. This is an important point.

Re: Neocon utopian plan for the Middle East

You said: Utopian plan? Democracy is the answer Islamic terrorist activity? Lemme do your comprehending for you here and we’ll see if we can get you up to speed.

A. I got word utopian to describe the neocons Middle East policy from Pat Buchanan: hardly a moonbat liberal.

I understand the basic neocon theory about modernizing the Middle East, the reverse domino effect, and your long description of “comprehending” for me is close enough to be the neocon plan. And, in 15-20 years no more jihadis. Which is basically what I said in a somewhat irreverent way.

But that’s all gone, there is no neocon plan anymore, no spreading democracy, no happy Iraqi. The Iraq war has devolved into such a disaster that the best we can hope for is a C- or D result. Which means we can pullout of Iraq without having it turn into a regional war.

You said: This was not dreamed up on the campaign trail in 1999.

A. Right on! It was dreamed up in the mid-90’s by a group of intellectual elite New York Jews. (I couldn’t pass that one up.)

Re: the Bush plan was to sit and wait for the next nuisance terrorist attack

You said: There’s no evidence for this assertion.

A. Your right, there is no evidence for this assertion. Neither is there any evidence that the Bush administration did any meaningful anti-terror work in their first 8 months, or even took it seriously for that matter.

This was an editorial deduction I made in order to try to solve the puzzle. It wasn’t meant a piece of hard journalism. But I have to say it was a fairly easy assumption to make.

What’s your answer to why Bush did nothing during his first 8 months about terrorism?

Well, a rather large building fell on it, and it was on fire for about 7 hours. It’s amazing that a building can burn that long and somehow not set those demo charges off or damage any of the wiring to the charges, isn’t it?