9/11 Politics
Here I was, giving President Bush an A+ on his speech commemorating the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks five years ago and now I find out that his speech was partisan.
Bitter partisan squabbles engulfed Capitol Hill on Tuesday sparked by President Bush’s 9/11 speech Monday night that was not supposed to be political.
Eight weeks before elections that will determine control of the House and Senate, Democrats charged that the president was “playing election-year politics” with the memories of 9/11, and Republicans questioned whether Democrats are more interested in protecting terrorists than the country.
I listened to the President as he spoke. There was not one thing partisan about it, unless you consider that he addressed the people on September 11th. The Democrats are so inept in keeping the country safe that they consider any speech given by the President on Afghanistan or Iraq as engaging in partisanship. All the Democrats have to do to avoid the moniker of being weak on terrorism is to get serious about the defense of this country.
President Bush’s press secretary Tony Snow rightly pointed out that no political party was singled out. The speech was only what President Bush said it was, the state of the US since 9/11. The only party engaging in partisan politics is the Democratic Party. Their goals are not so lofty.
“This was not a speech that was designed to single out anybody for partisan reasons, but gave the president’s honest reflections and reactions to what has happened since September 11, 2001,” Snow said, according to the AP. “The president decided that yesterday wasn’t a day for partisanship.”
The Republican response was swift, sure and denounced all those who questioned the President’s motives. It seems most Republicans understand what this is all about, the destruction of the President. The Dems are undermining a President at war.
“I listen to the questions today and I listen to my Democrat friends, and I wonder if they are more interested in protecting the terrorists than protecting the American people,” House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said “The fact is, these people want to kill Americans — they have killed Americans. And if we do not go after them and defeat them they are going to continue to kill and injure more Americans.”
Boehner is right. Democrats call the Iraqi war a distraction. But how is it a distraction when it has occupied the terrorists for the last five years. This country has not had a terrorist attack since September 11th. How is the war a distraction when our soldiers have killed thousands of terrorists attempting undermine the fledgling democracy in Iraq? How is the war a distraction when the country of Iraq continues to be a terrorist magnet allowing US troops to kill them?
“The very people that planned the attacks are the people who are in Iraq — al Qaeda in Iraq — causing that sectarian violence,” he [Pennsylvanian Senator Rick Santorum] said. “Should we ignore that, I ask the senator from Nevada?”
The group al Qaeda in Iraq was actually formed after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and was headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike June 7 north of Baghdad.
I was pleased with the neutral tone of the CNN piece until this line in which the authors are quoting from Democratic talking points on a point which is not true.
The group al Qaeda in Iraq was actually formed after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and was headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike June 7 north of Baghdad.
This statement is not quite true since Zarqawi was being helped by Saddam Hussein. The former dictator also allowed training camps to be set up in his country. While everyone acknowledges the fact that Hussein had nothing to do with the attacks on 9/11, most credible sources concede that he did help terrorist groups including al-Qaeda. A fact not readily admitted by the MSM nor the Democratic Party.
It is indeed interesting that a lot of Democrats are really getting tired of the term ‘cut-and-run Democrats.’ And yet I have yet to see one move on their part to dispel this name the Democrats have rightfully earned. When it comes to protecting this country, the Dems are sorely lacking. That is not to say the Republicans have all the answers, because they don’t. At least the Republicans have some answers. The Dems have none. But to call this great speech by the President of the United States a partisan speech on one of the anniversary of one of the most significant events in the history of this country is not helping to keep us safe. But we already knew the Democratic Party is not interested in forming solutions or in protecting this country.
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