Osama bin Laden died again - Vote Republican
by Glenn Greenwald
The Terrorism Outrage of the Day for Bush followers, led by Matt Drudge, is that a 9/11 memorial in Arizona contains sentiments they consider "political" — such as "Feeling of invincibility lost" and "You don’t win battles of terrorism with more battles.” Apparently, this is absolutely intolerable because nothing — absolutely nothing —is more immoral or outrageous than "politicizing" the 9/11 attacks.
Those, of course, are the same attacks which have so usefully served as the central prop for three consecutive Republican campaigns, as well as for most of the President's most controversial policies, such as his recent announcement that he would transfer certain terrorist suspects from our secret Eastern European gulags to Guantanamo, after which he demanded that Congress enact legislation authorizing him to use torture and creating the military commissions he wanted. That speech took place, as the President eagerly pointed out in the very first sentence out of his mouth, in the presence of "families who lost loved ones in the terrorist attacks on our nation."
At the same time, Bush followers have spent the last several days declaring Osama bin Laden dead — again. Instapundit beat his chest and roared: "REPORTS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD. . . . Dying of typhoid in a cave doesn't sound very heroic." Instapundit's principal source for news, Gateway Pundit, had a post (on which Instapundit relied) entitled "Osama bin Laden Is Dead!" In that post, "G.P. News" announced: "Typhoid Got Him! Doctors were not able to reach his cave in time!" He also summarized a "report" from Jawa Report this way: "the report comes from an actual secret document."
(There is more, here.)
The Terrorism Outrage of the Day for Bush followers, led by Matt Drudge, is that a 9/11 memorial in Arizona contains sentiments they consider "political" — such as "Feeling of invincibility lost" and "You don’t win battles of terrorism with more battles.” Apparently, this is absolutely intolerable because nothing — absolutely nothing —is more immoral or outrageous than "politicizing" the 9/11 attacks.
Those, of course, are the same attacks which have so usefully served as the central prop for three consecutive Republican campaigns, as well as for most of the President's most controversial policies, such as his recent announcement that he would transfer certain terrorist suspects from our secret Eastern European gulags to Guantanamo, after which he demanded that Congress enact legislation authorizing him to use torture and creating the military commissions he wanted. That speech took place, as the President eagerly pointed out in the very first sentence out of his mouth, in the presence of "families who lost loved ones in the terrorist attacks on our nation."
At the same time, Bush followers have spent the last several days declaring Osama bin Laden dead — again. Instapundit beat his chest and roared: "REPORTS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD. . . . Dying of typhoid in a cave doesn't sound very heroic." Instapundit's principal source for news, Gateway Pundit, had a post (on which Instapundit relied) entitled "Osama bin Laden Is Dead!" In that post, "G.P. News" announced: "Typhoid Got Him! Doctors were not able to reach his cave in time!" He also summarized a "report" from Jawa Report this way: "the report comes from an actual secret document."
(There is more, here.)
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