It has come to this: The Bush Administration not only turned around and left bin Laden when our toops had him hopelessly cornered; they not only then lied frequently, repeatedly, stridently, to fake our troops into an undeclared war in which we are rightly viewed as occupiers; but now they have also brought our intelligence community's attention to bear on the ELF and ALF, groups that do property damage, and this at a time when bin Laden and his sympathizers are bent on taking American lives.
It has come to this: The Bush Administration not only turned around and left bin Laden when our toops had him hopelessly cornered; they not only then lied frequently, repeatedly, stridently, to fake our troops into an undeclared war in which we are rightly viewed as occupiers; but now they have also brought our intelligence community's attention to bear on the ELF and ALF, groups that do property damage and do not target people, and this at a time when bin Laden and his sympathizers are bent on taking American lives.
Ask yourself: Who's more dangerous? Groups trying their damnedest to kill us, or groups trying to get us to pay attention to the problems caused by gas-guzzling, disproportionately polluting, rollover-hazard SUVs, and who do not target people?
I know what this administration thinks about that. It must have been embarrassing for officials resorting to using their press announcement of the arrests to assure the public that the ELF and ALF people they'd taken really were terrorists, somehow. The Bush Administration does the American people a grave disservice by putting protection of property before protection of American lives.