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United States News Title: A tale of two presidents: Bush, Obama and Osama bin Laden It didn't take long for the usual suspects on the right to start whining about politicizing a historic moment. But it isn't political exploitation to tell the truth. And none of the voices that now decry the truth-telling cared a whit when Bush blatantly exploited the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, with politically timed orange alerts and the lies and fear-mongering that led the nation into a war on a nation that had had nothing to do with the September 11 attacks. Republicans have been dishonestly exploiting fears of foes real and imagined for decades, and the cynical strategy's most recent incarnations have been the questions about President Obama's birth certificate, the lies that he is secretly a Muslim—as if there is anything wrong with being a Muslim in the first place—and of course the Sharia Law freak show, as if anyone anywhere in this nation has ever been threatened with the imposition of any form of religious fundamentalism other than that emanating from the cesspool of right-wing theocrats. This historic moment is political. All historic moments are political. History is political, and the only people who now claim otherwise do so purely for political reasons. Even the desperation to deceive the public into believing the lie that the Bush administration's immoral, inhuman, and illegal torture regime helped make this successful raid possible is purely impurely political. Dick Cheney wants credit for this success because Dick Cheney doesn't want anyone to remember that his astonshing failures made this raid necessary. Every time Dick Cheney appears on television, it becomes necessary to revisit the historic facts. Every time any Republican or right-wing apologist or oblivious media hack repeats the lie that Republicans are competent, much less superior to Democrats, at protecting national security, it becomes necessary to revisit the historic facts: If not for the Bush administration's unprecedented failure at national security, the unprecedented terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, would not have succeeded. This is a recap. I have posted it before, in several different forms. Repeating it should not be necessary. These facts should be so much a part of national consciousness as to permanently destroy the credibility of all whose failures allowed the September 11 attacks to succeed. But that would necessitate a dispassionate and honest and professional traditional media, which we clearly do not have. But Democrats, and all who care about historical accuracy, should have these facts readily at hand, to be oft repeated at every opportunity, until they do dent national consciousness. In the absence of a dispassionate and honest and professional traditional media, and given the frequent failures of message discipline by institutional Democrats, the responsibility falls on us. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread |
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