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The Cincinnati Beacon
All This War and We’re Still Not Safe
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati
by Andrew Warner
President Bush campaigned saying that he was the choice if we wanted a safer homeland. Why is our government getting F’s and D’s when being graded on how well they are protecting us?
The bi-partisan 9-11 panel that gave the failing grades was established to prevent America from being attacked on our soil following the terrorist action of 2001. Four years down the road Bush and the government have failed to take the proper steps to make America safer.
From the NY Times:
“The American people ought to demand answers,” said James R. Thompson, a Republican commissioner and a former Illinois governor. “Why aren’t our tax dollars being spent to protect our lives? What’s the rationale? What’s the excuse? There is no excuse.”
Republicans are some of the president�s strongest critics in regard to the squandering of money that was meant to protect Americans.
Looking at these failing grades we have to ask ourselves the point of the war that we are fighting. With billions of dollars, as well as 2000 American soldiers lives lost, the war has failed to make us any safer.
From Andrew Sullivan:
I think I speak for millions of my fellow Americans when I say that we are fervently anti-war not because we’re some cartoonish Sheehan-style peaceniks but because the war in Iraq has failed utterly to protect us from terrorism here.
Talks of withdrawal have heated up in recent weeks, and as we continue to look at the facts we continue to find there is no reason for us to be in this war that was built on lies to begin with.
Americans were suckered into electing this president with fear and patriotism. Their campaign wanted us to think that Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden, or whoever was holding mustard gas or nuclear weapons right over our heads and that this war was necessary.
Look at the report card and see the results of the quagmire in Iraq and then decide if this war is still what you voted for.
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