This will be a very quick one. I'm at work. Wish I could write more.
Simply put, folks, here is what the Democrats must do to counter how the Republicans will use the constant drumbeat of today's terror plot news against the Dems (below the fold)...
- There must be NO "dog-in-the-manger" sentiments. Remember what the MSM did to Howard Dean when he expressed perfectly understandable reservations upon the capture of Saddam Hussein. End of story.
No, the Brits apparently did a great job and we must (and do) congratulate them.
OTOH...
- Remind Americans that catching terrorists IS NOT Bush's priority. If it were, we would have stayed in Afghanistan, put up a continuing effort to catch Osama bin Laden, and left Iraq to its own devices. Instead, Bush's desire to get Saddam ended up creating an Iraq now disintegrating into civil war and attracting (and creating) new terrorists at an astounding and scary pace.
One final note: It was refreshing to see how the early British press conferences went to some effort to note how, regardless of scuzzy the captured SOBs may end up proving to be, they have rights and are entitled to due process. Can't quite imagine, say, Alberto Gonzales saying that, now, can ya?