And even if Bush were to be that hypocritical – but he couldn’t! – he surely wouldn’t compound the lunacy of such an affair into some sort of hypocrisy-cubed exercise in exponential idiocy by, for instance, claiming that this terrorist could not be extradited because of fears of torture in Venezuela (a country whose government does not have any record of doing so), at the same time his own administration was writing memos on how to legally torture at Abu Ghraib or Guantánamo. I mean, how lame can you get?!
And don’t even get me started on human rights! Bush would never contemplate sacrificing our human rights and civil liberties to fight a war against terrorism, or even a fake one. Bush has wisdom way past his years (even if most of those were spent as a drunk and a personal, academic, business and family failure). He knows that if you start dismantling habeas corpus, if you deny people legal representation, if you spy on your own citizens without obtaining a warrant, if you aggregate excessive powers into the hands of the president and blow off Congress – if you keep doing all kinds of stuff like that, that you’re no better than the people you’re fighting (who, after all, hate us for our freedoms, don’t forget). So he would never harm the Constitution or sacrifice our liberties in any way, even while fighting a tough war on terrorism. You can rest easier knowing that.
The other thing about Bush, too, is that he’s courageous. No, really! He was courageous being raised in opulence, and he was courageous screwing around in school knowing his real potential would someday take him to the top, whatever they were saying behind his back. He was courageous being a forty year-old drunk when everyone said he was wasting away in Margaritaville, but he knew better. He was courageous taking all those business ventures on the basis of his family’s name and money when others laughed at him for doing so. So freakin’ what if they all went bust?! He was courageous in frying all those Texas death-row inmates after extensively reviewing their cases with Alberto, and in mocking Karla Faye Tucker’s plea to live. Man, that takes stones!
He was courageous when he went to Nam even though his Daddy had arranged a cushy stateside gig for him flying old jalopies – assuming he even bothered to show up for it. And he was courageous when he flew straight to Washington and New York on 9/11 to manage the crisis, instead of running in the other direction. With so much courage, no wonder he’s had the guts to look the American people in the eye and raise their taxes and draft their sons in order to support a necessary war. Other presidents (you know who) might have tried to get away with this the easy way, say by balancing the war effort on the backs of run-down Guard and Reserve units, or regular forces on their fourth and fifth tours, and by buying the public off with a tax cut. Not our Jorge. The guy’s got guts, man.
Which is precisely why we can never trust some Democrat like Hillary with the presidency. First of all, she’s a woman! I mean, come on. But even apart from that, this stuff is way too critical to leave it to somebody so incompetent.
If Hillary had been president these last seven years, we would have been grossly unprepared for 9/11. Heck, she probably would have been on vacation fro a month before it, and running away from it afterwards. Then we would have attacked the wrong country in response, and made a hash of it to boot. We would still be completely vulnerable to a domestic terrorist attack, while the perpetrator of the last one would running around free as a bird. The whole world would be furious at us, acts of terrorism would have increased seven-fold, and our military would be bogged down in some completely irrelevant war, with no end in sight. Meanwhile, our cherished Constitutional liberties would be in the garbage can.
It’s all true.
Except for one minor detail. The hated Hillary hasn’t been our president these last seven years. Another person has.
You want to know – just for the sake of argument – what it would look like if we had a president who really didn’t give a damn about terrorism? Look no further.
I’m with Rudy – thank god we’ve had George W. Bush in the White House. Otherwise, how else would we know?
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