Bush's Re-election Is A Terrorists' Best Friend
by Allen Snyder
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Holy Abu Ghraib!! What must all those terrorists be thinking?!
First, they brutally murder almost 3,000 people in the 9/11 WTC and Pentagon attacks. In retaliation, their enemy inexplicably attacks uninvolved Saddam Hussein and Iraq, turning what was once a hated secular state, ideologically opposed to groups like al-Qaeda, into a veritable hot-bed of nationalist fervor on the one hand and fundamentalist Islamic terrorist activity on the other.
Suicidal new recruits from Muslim countries all over the world are either blowing themselves up or begging to be next. The civilian and military death tolls in Iraq and elsewhere are steadily mounting, and the fear and anxiety terrorists are determined to spread is gripping whole nations by the throat (or a bit lower in some cases). Recently on 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart', analyst and author Fareed Zakaria claimed that most of the terrorist attacks occurring these days are being perpetrated by groups other than al-Qaeda. If this is any indication of BushCo's 'progress' in the war on terror, instead of our fighting one relatively large and conspicuous global terrorist network, we'll be forced to confront and eliminate perhaps dozens of smaller, stealthier, more independent, desperate, and dangerous groups.
BushCo's categorically failed policies have advanced the terrorists' agenda by leaps and bounds (the recent pictures of Bush's torture chambers and rape rooms haven't helped), doing in several years what they couldn't have done themselves in several decades - broadened their brutal scope of influence, violently re-upset the Middle East, turned America's Western European allies against us and each other, eroded much of our international standing and credibility, forced us to spread our military forces ever-so-thinly, and shown the world that America, despite its hugely obscene military and 'Homeland Security' budgets, arrogant swagger, and stinkless sh*t, is as vulnerable as ever.
You wanna know what those terrorists are thinking?
They're thinking Bush/Cheney '04. Please, please, please!!!
Thanks to their ersatz Iraq Crusade's distracting from the real war on terror and W's assurances that we'll 'stay the course', not 'cut and run', and 'maintain our resolve' there (big words for a National Guard No-Show), BushCo's re-election is now anti-American terrorism's best friend. If BushCo is re-installed, there will be no end to the self-destructive policies killing a steady stream of soldiers, contractors (read: hired mercenaries), and innocents daily. Terrorists will be so lousy with prime grade-A global targets, they'll be holding meetings on what not to attack.
Sadly, with Diebold voting machines, most of largely compliant and slothful conservative corporate media, and widespread public ignorance about all things important on their side, the November election may be a Tenet-like slam-dunk
Terrorists have to be ecstatic that, thanks to BushCo's top executives, they're only the second, third, or fourth most dangerous group in the world (BushCo's firmly at #1, so 2 through 4 are toss-ups between sundry terrorists, the North Koreans, and Ariel Sharon's Israel). Further, their enemy is aiding them by gladly and righteously doing all it can to re-elect these danger-mongering fanatics. They must shake their heads in astonished disbelief as the parade of whistleblowers; Paul O'Neill, Richard Clarke, Bob Woodward, and former ambassador Joseph Wilson, are dismissed by the majority of Americans as sour-grape-eating partisan hacks with axes to grind.
Instead, most Americans numbly acquiesce to BushCo's latest fantasy tales.
And if all that doesn't make the terrorists cream their collective robes in a monster terror-gasm, they'll pop their corks when they realize they're winning their terror war here, too. Yes, the same BushCo who has incompetently befriended them globally is also doing their bidding right here in the good ol' US of A. Witness the relentless erosion of civil rights and the morphing of the US from secular republic to theocratic plutocracy (or is that plutocratic theocracy?). The continual denial or warping of basic American freedoms are trumpeted by right wingnuts as the cost of ever-elusive 'national security', freedom, and liberty, but each loss represents instead a corruption of the uniquely American identity that the pre-9/11 world, to a great degree, respected and admired.
It's gravy that the terrorists' actions are prompting BushCo to not only destroy domestic democracy, but also fulfill the apocalyptic aspirations of their more nutty supporters who believe Christianity and The West are on a collision course with Islam and The East. Casting this power/money grabbing nonsense as the fulfillment of some bogus religious prophecy is a double-edged sword. While it certainly drums up support among BushCo's fundamentalist and fatalistic 'base' to continue their murdering unabated, it also fans the conflagration of American hatred abroad, swelling the already burgeoning ranks of both veteran and neophyte terrorist groups.
One thing's for sure: if you're a good Islamic terrorist, you're praying to Allah for Bush's re-election.
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