This is the narrative and/or debate Democrats and all Americans of Conscience need to be fostering.
I quote from Josh Marshall's excellent report this morning at Talking Points Memo on how Cheney's al Qaeda's Bestest Friend:
". . . Dick Cheney is too dangerously incompetent to have in any position of authority, let alone the vice presidency. . . Cheney showed up in Islamabad warning President Musharraf that al Qaeda is 'regrouping' along the Pakistani border. Musharraf must be a little confused: . . . didn't we sign off on the armistice his government signed with the jihadists and their protectors just a few months ago?"
Keep going . . .
Josh continues on:
"More to the point, last week Cheney claimed that Nancy Pelosi's position on Iraq would validate al Qaeda since al Qaeda's goal in Iraq is to show that our will can be broken. Reed Hundt chimed in and pointed out that it's far more likely that al Qaeda's goal is to bait us into ridiculous and unwinnable wars that will sap our military strength and financial power."
Gee, we couldn't see THAT coming.
". . . James Fallows wrote last year in which he wrote ...
"Documents captured after 9/11 showed that bin Laden hoped to provoke the United States into an invasion and occupation that would entail all the complications that have arisen in Iraq. His only error was to think that the place where Americans would get stuck would be Afghanistan.
"Bin Laden also hoped that such an entrapment would drain the United States financially. Many al-Qaeda documents refer to the importance of sapping American economic strength as a step toward reducing America’s ability to throw its weight around in the Middle East."
Marshall sums it up, thusly:
"[W]e're playing right into their hands."
And who'se the "chief player?" Dick Cheney. And who's the chief winner? Halliburton. And al Qaeda.
Marshall finishes strong:
"How many American deaths is this goof responsible for? And who in this country has done more to advance the al Qaeda agenda and make the US more vulnerable to attack?"
Democrats need to make this utterly true message their message to the American people, starting with the Media Heathers. Bang the gong, dammit. Bang the gong.
BenGoshi
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