"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine." - - - William Blum

January 03, 2006

Feeling Safer Now?

Aravosis outlines how President Bush-war has made America safer (edited):

It's one thing to give up our civil liberties in exchange for the safety of our children. It's quite another to give them up and get little in return. Let's examine just how much safer George Bush has made America since September 11.

1. Osama is still free, and Bush never even talks about him anymore.

2. Our military is bogged down in a war that had nothing to do with Osama or Al Qaeda UNTIL WE INVADED AND MADE IRAQ AL QAEDA'S NEW HOME.

3. We've turned Iraq into the biggest terrorist training camp in the world....

4. Far too many of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, recommendations to make us safer, have still not been implemented.

5. The Homeland Security budget is being spent on frivolous pork....

6. The 9/11 Commission gives Bush a grade of "D" under the category: "Maximum effort to prevent terrorists from acquiring WMD" - i.e., he gets a D for his efforts to stop terrorists from getting nuclear bombs. Here's what the 9/11 Commissioners had to say about Bush's efforts to stop Osama from getting a nuclear bomb and dropping it on an American city....

7. Most of the world now hates us....

And let me leave you with the words of the Republican head of the 9/11 commission, just a few weeks ago: "Four years after 9/11 it is scandalous that police and firefighters in large cities still cannot communicate reliably in a major crisis," said Thomas Kean, the Republican who was chairman of the commission. "It is scandalous that airline passengers are still not screened against all names on a terrorist watch list. It is scandalous that we still allocate scarce homeland security dollars on the basis of pork barrel spending, not risk.... While the terrorists are learning and adapting, our government is still moving at a crawl."

Tell me again how Bush has made us safer?

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