At some point, we have to thank President Bush
For all the rhetoric and verbal hand grenades that have been lobbed at President Bush over his “bungled” management of the war on terror, our nation is going to have to recognize that it’s been Bush’s policies over seven years that has kept another terror attack from occurring in the U.S.
The Washington Post writes:
At this time in 2002 and 2004, about a quarter of all Americans polled by Gallup called terrorism or national security the country’s top problem. That dropped to 16 percent in 2006, and now 4 percent of those polled deem those issues the most important the nation must confront.
If there is any evidence that’s more clear of the success of Bush’s policies, it’s a statistic that says that attention-deficit, instant-gratification Americans have moved beyond thinking terrorism is a problem.
In today’s column by Ann Coulter, “Bush 7, Terrorists 0“, and she relates this quote from Frank Rich of the NY Times in 2002 that’s all too telling:
“Since major al-Qaida attacks are planned well in advance and have historically been separated by intervals of 12 to 24 months, we will find out how much we’ve been distracted soon enough.” (“Never Forget What?” New York Times, Sept. 14, 2002.)
Of course, that would have meant we should have expected terror attacks at the latest in 2003, as Bush distracted us with a war in Iraq…right?
Unfortunately, it’s an election year and any hint of commending the president and his team for a job well done is out of the question. Instead, liberals will move onto more swinish pursuits.
It’s been seven years since America was attacked, and while we haven’t been at peace, our nation has remained safe because of the decisions of her commander-in-chief. For that, at least for a moment, we should snap out of our cult-of-personality-induced coma and say, “Thank you.”
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Also read Daniel Henninger’s column in the Wall Street Journal on the true nature of Democratic opposition to the war on terror and how little we really know about Sen. Barack Obama’s positions.
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On today more than any other day, i agree.
Thank you president Bush for going after those responsible for 9/11, Osama Bin Laden and his allies the Taliban in Afghanistan. It may have been all downhill from there, but that was one of your best decisions, and the resulting disruption to Al-Qaeda has contributed to keeping America safe.
I totally disagree.
We should be thanking the men and women at the FBI, CIA, DoD and State Departments for prevent further attacks “in spite” of GW.
He made their jobs exponencially harder by creating the situation which filled the ranks of terrorist organizations around the world.
So no, he won’t be getting my thanks today or any other.
And this is also the guy who has destroyed the modern conservative movement and done more for the cause of big spending, big regulating, nationalizing, individual liberty destroying, large government then anyone else since Lydon Johnson. It infurates me that he claims the banner of conservatism, and even more so that the general public associates all that he has done wrong with conservatism. He is no conservative; he is a Dixiecrat. Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan are rolling over in their graves.
Thank you, George W. Bush for having the guts to do what is right and fight a Democratic Congress who opposed you for no other reason than your party affiliation The Democrats sought to exploit the unpopularity of the war for no other reason than political gain.
Thank you for realizing that while war is not popular, you did what was right to protect both us and the people of Iraq. Thank you because while one party claims it fights for the little man, you actually took a stand for the little men and women in Iraq when that party wanted to abandon those people.
Thank you for taking a chance and failing in some areas and then having the courage to regroup and work with others to organize a successful Surge. Some think it is a weakness to fail, but you knew we fail only when we fail to act to correct injustice.
Thank you most of all for sacrificing your poll numbers to do what you thought was right. And thanks to your steadfastness. You showed at least some of us that Democrats in Congress put their party’s interest ahead of the interests of this country and in front of the interests of democracy and freedom abroad.
Thank you for keeping us safe and for siding with the American people and not with the terrorists.