The Enabler! Bush and Al Qaeda



Since this is Memorial Day weekend, we do stop to remember those who have died, especially the more than 3000 young men and women who have died in Iraq fighting an at best mismanaged war and at worse, well I don't even want to say it.


With that in mind, I want to point your attention to this piece by Andrew Sullivan at the Daily Dish. It's about Bush's recklessness and his inability to recognize that the reason why Al Qaeda is as much a threat today, and why Iraq is the center piece in his War on Terror, is that his own policies have led us to this point.

So, ponder this and consider whether GW has engaged in anything that seems impeachable:

Just to anger up the blood some more, it's now clear, thanks to the latest Congressional report, that this president was warned starkly about the dangers of "a surge of political Islam and increased funding for terrorist groups" as a result of an invasion of Iraq. He was told that Iraq was "largely bereft of the social underpinnings" for democracy. He was explicitly informed that there was "a significant chance that domestic groups would engage in violent conflict with each other unless an occupying force prevented them from doing so." And yet he still sent a pathetically insufficient occupation force in 2003 - and refused to increase it for three years of growing chaos and mayhem. Even if you excuse the original recklessness, the persistence in it - until our current point of no return - is and was criminal negligence - a callous disregard for your security and mine.

The gravity of the mistake this country made in 2004 by re-electing Al Qaeda's best bet is only now sinking in as deep as it should. I fear, however, that we have yet to experience the full and terrifying consequences of that historic mistake.

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