"Say what you will about Bush, at least he kept us safe from terrorist attacks."

[sabra]

http://blog.mlive.com/readreact/2009/02/say_what_you_will_about.html

Examination of Bush's 'kept America safe' record turns into a circular argument


"Say what you will about Bush, at least he kept us safe from terrorist attacks."


"What about 9/11?"

"He kept us safe from terrorist attacks since 9/11."


"By 'us,' I assume you mean Americans. What about all our soldiers and civilians killed in terrorist attacks in Iraq?"

"He kept us safe from terrorist attacks since 9/11 on American soil."


"What about the anthrax attacks, and the freeway snipers? Weren't those terrorist attacks on American soil after 9/11?"

"He kept us safe from Muslim terrorist attacks on American soil since 9/11."


"I'm not impressed. Hasn't every president since Pearl Harbor kept us safe from attacks on American soil? Doesn't that make them more successful than Bush?"

"Ha! Gotcha there, you Bush-hating liberal! Your precious Bill Clinton allowed a terrorist attack in 1993!"


"And just like Bush, he 'kept us safe' for the remaining seven years of his administration. In terms of 'keeping us safe,' Bush's record is worse than Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and his dad, and is equal to Clinton's. Why, exactly, are you touting this as some kind of accomplishment? And, since you want to compare Bush to Clinton, didn't Clinton manage to capture, charge, try and convict the 1993 conspirators in a regular court of law without relying on torture? Where's Osama bin Laden? Which conspirators has Bush convicted? None."

"You're being unfair. Not everything bad that happens during a president's term should be blamed on him."


"But he should get credit for every bad thing that might have happened and didn't?"

"Say what you will about Bush, at least he kept us safe from terrorist attacks."

:rofl:

[ixion]

1. gotta love rethug (ill)logic

:crazy:

[LeftinOH]

2. He "kept us safe" for 7 months....n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Reminds me of a well worn joke.

Guy is incessantly snapping his fingers. Friend asks him why. Guys says snapping his fingers keeps away tigers. Friends informs Guy that there aren't any tigers for thousands of miles from where they are. Guy smugly answers, "See? It works!"

[SCantiGOP]

4. another thing I blame Bush for

The plane that ditched in the Hudson was hit by CANADIAN geese. What did Bush do to seal the border against this insidious threat?

[4 t 4]

5. I can't stand that he

thinks he can take that as his legacy. SAFE my ass how many have died because of him. Dead is dead no matter how it happened. Thousands are dead because of him how is that keeping us safe ? So people didn't die on this soil, so what. He Did Not Keep Us safe

[Control-Z]

18. People did die on American soil

911 was the biggest terrorist attack on American soil in history, and it happened on BUSH'S WATCH, so no, he did not keep us safe. How on earth can anyone say differently? Had he listened to a word of Clinton's warnings/advise, or the alerts that came in on HIS WATCH, 911 could have very possibly been deterred.

He did nothing for us. He did not keep us safe.

[flakey_foont]

6. Obama has kept us safe

no terrorist attacks since he took office

[freemedic78]

7. I don't see any more terrorist atacks on the horrizon

We will be fine.

[FrenchieCat]

13. I'm sure that if the current administration gets a folder titled.....

"Terrorist determined to attack in the United States", then those attacks in the horizon will be looked for, unlike the last administration!

[windoe]

8. Tell that to the dead soldiers without armor

and to all the torture victims. Bastards.

[ms liberty]

9. And Clinton had only been in office 39 days when the 93 attacks occured...n/t

[seabeyond]

12. see... now i was gonna say about a month. i would have been wrong. n/t

[malaise]

17. They conveniently forget that n/t

[MisterP]

10. ah, the Herbert Mullin defense: no quakes here! n/t

[Laelth]

11. MIHOP. n/t

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth

[OneBlueSky]

14. it's always "since 9/11" . . . how about 9/11 itself? . . . wasn't that on Bush's watch? . . . n/t

.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. He took a thriving economy and a budget surplus, and left this country a smoking financial crater.

I don't think Al Qaeda could do nearly as much damage to us in their wettest dreams.

[Arkansas Granny]

20. Bush was their wettest dream. His administration accomplished more

of Al Qaeda's goals that they did themselves.

[OneGrassRoot]

16. He kept us safe from asteroids, too......

:eyes:

Even though I'm a MIHOP/LIHOP person, that's my response when right-wingers say that.

Oy

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. !

:crazy: :silly:

[spanone]

21. 911 happened on their watch...say no more