Look at the power the GOP has given to Al Quaeda. They have transformed a cadre of a few thousand lunatics into a dark force that hangs over our country. September 11th changed everything, a catastrophe even Al Quaeda probably did not believe they were capable of.
Kerry needs to call Bush out on turning Al Quaeda into a monster to lord over our lives.
The myth of Al Quaeda has tentacles now into every dimension of American life.
When the people ask the President and his associates, why the economy has lost a million and a half jobs since he took office, why we are five or six million jobs behind historical trends, they GOP says, well, 9/11 changed everything.
Those 19 men with box cutters, they crashed their planes into three buildings. But Bush gives them the power to destroy millions of jobs?
In the time since Bush took office, our ten year outlook for the federal budget has deteriorated by over ten trillion dollars. Ten trillion dollars. You ask them what happened, and they say, well you know September 11 changed everything. Ten trillion dollars is the value of the entire stock of residential single family homes in the United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Those 19 terrorists crashed into three buildings, but Bush says that they have the power to destroy an amount of wealth equal to everyone's house in the country?
And when we ask how the American government came to be weighing out the costs and benefits of torture like a corporate compliance lawyer and how American soldiers came to the place that Abu Ghraib embodies, they say September 11th changed everything. The rejection of torture and the respect for due process underlying our constitution represent the applied wisdom of hardened people who were conscious of the cauldron of history, and they were consciously transcending this. In allowing Al Quaeda the power to cause us to reject our most central traditions, Bush has elevated Al Quaeda even above the Nazis, who never had the power to cause us reject our own constitution.
Al Quaeda is nothing but a small ragtag band of lunatics. They have never truly had the power to challenge American greatness. The power they do have to terrorize us was given to them by Bush and Cheney.