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President Bush suggested Thursday that Democrats don’t have the stomach to fight the war on terror. He was at a Republican campaign fundraiser in Alabama and had lots of nasty stuff too.

“Five years after 9/11, the worst attack on the American homeland in our history, Democrats offer nothing but criticism and obstruction and endless second-guessing,” Bush said at a Republican fundraiser.”The party of FDR and the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run,”.

Party of cut and run? How does Bush have any business saying something like this? He is the guy that acted like a wuss on the day of 9-11. When the Saudi terrorists attacked, he was at an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida reading to kids. Instead of getting on Air Force One and returning to Washington D.C., he flew around the country hiding from threats that never existed. He even spent time in a bomb shelter at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. How embarrassing. There were a lot of people doing brave and courageous things on the day of 9-11. Don’t let anyone fool you. George Bush wasn’t one of them.

I’m tired of Bush and gutless neo-con chickenhawks like him constantly trying to man-up on everyone else. Only in America can someone like Rush Limbaugh describe a man such as John Kerry as a coward. John Kerry earned a Silver Star for killing the Viet Cong into the jungles of Viet Nam. The only thing Limbaugh has ever killed was a bottle of oxicotin.

I find it ironic that Bush can refer to leaving Iraq as “cut and run”. What more do we have to do over there? We took care of ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. Granted, Iraq didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein was captured and is now on trial. They have had democratic elections in Iraq. Twice. Iraqi People even got purple fingers. What more is there to do? Mission accomplished, right? Major combat operations in Iraq are over, right? So why continue the military occupation of Iraq?

Not only are we paying a heavy toll in American lives, it is costing the American taxpayers approximately $2 billion dollars a week to occupy Iraq. Then again, it’s not like current taxpayers are going to be footing this bill. It will be this country’s great, great, great grandchildren that end up paying for the Bush Iraq war. Future taxpayers will be footing the bill for Bush’s war. Bush isn’t really keen on the idea of paying for the things he wants. He drives up the national debt while cutting taxes. Mostly these tax cuts go to the ultra rich. Tax cuts for people that don’t sacrifice or contribute anything to the war on terror or Bush’s war in Iraq. It’s not as though their children are enlisting in the military after high school and going to Iraq or Afghanistan.

Then again, if you join the military, your chances of going to Afghanistan are not all that high. The odds of going to Iraq are seven times more likely then going to Afghanistan. That’s a shame too, especially if someone joined the armed forces to kill the people that caused the terror attacks on 9-11. Instead of occupying Iraq, our military needs to be in Afghanistan killing the Taliban and hunting down bin Laden.

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The most disappointing thing learned from the once classified assessment on global terrorism isn’t that the world has more terrorists then ever before. It isn’t that the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq made the world more dangerous. Anyone that has read a newspaper or watched the news on TV already knew these things to be true. No, the most troubling thing about this report is that once again George W. Bush proves that he ignores his own intelligence reports. Did he even read it? The report is dated April 2006. How many times has he and his administration argued that the war in Iraq was making us safer? He should have known this was a lie.

There is a reason some people like to call Bush a liar. He constantly says things that aren’t true. Things he has to know aren’t true.

I guess it’s easy to ignore something if you have never read it. Or in the case of Bush, had someone read it to you. Bush said the freshly unclassified report supported his arguments that the world is safer because of the Iraq invasion and occupation. If you read all three and a half pages released from the report, you see that’s simply not true. The released segments warn about the spread of terrorism and contrasted greatly with the Bush administration’s optimistic declarations.

“If this trend continues, threats to U.S. interests at home and abroad will become more diverse, leading to increasing attacks worldwide,”

Instead of saying that invading Iraq has made things better, The report says the complete opposite. It says that the war in Iraq has become a “cause célèbre” for Islamic extremists. It’s become a training ground for Islamic terrorists. Either Bush has not had someone read him the report or he just doesn’t believe what it says. I don’t know which of the two is worse.

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Read the declassified NIE report (.pdf)

The Disney Corporation which owns the ABC network is producing “The Path to 9/11″, a docudrama that recounts in dramatic fashion the many events that lead up to the terror attacks of 9/11. The six hour docudrama will be aired on ABC Sunday September 10 and Monday September 11. Oddly enough, Monday happens to be the five year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.Evidently the 9/11 docudrama’s producers simply made a lot of the story up, even though they are claiming the docudrama is based on the 9/11 Report. Not that I’m against making stuff up and passing it off as fact. It’s just that they are trying to put much of the blame for 9/11 on former President Bill Clinton. There is a scene in the docudrama showing a crack team of CIA ninja assassins lead by Donnie Wahlberg about to spring into action and kill bin Laden. Before they can act, they get a collect call from someone in the Clinton Administration telling them to stop. To not kill bin Laden. The problem with this scene is that never happened. Nobody in the Clinton administration ever stopped the CIA from killing bin Laden.

Hasn’t Bill Clinton been blamed enough for things he had absolutely nothing to do with?

If Disney is going to make shit up about 9/11, why not be a little more creative then to simply blame Bill Clinton? It’s old. Why not go all out and blame the 9/11 attacks on Adolf Hitler. They could show that Adolf Hitler traveled to the future in a Nazi time machine and created the Al Qaeda terrorist network. The rightwing has been using the made up word Islamofascism quite a bit lately. Though Hitler was not Islamic, he was a hardcore old school fascist. It even says so on Wikipedia. Plus, Adolf Hitler hated Jews.

Now this would be a kick ass docudrama. They could show Donnie Wahlberg and his crack team of CIA ninjas racing to locate the Nazi time machine and Islamofascist Adolf Hitler. One of the Austin Powers movies featured time travel. Same goes with a couple of the Star Trek movies. The one with the whales was exceptionally good. Remember the Back to the Future movies?

The precedent of traveling in time has already been set.

Disney is missing the mark with this 9/11 docudrama. I applaud them though for having the courage to make shit up. Too many times, documentary film makers adhere to facts when it comes to telling a story. Most of them are beholding to the all powerful historian lobby. A bunch of stuffy know-it-alls assholes that wear tweed jackets with leather patches on the elbows. They smoke pipes and like to talk about Winston Churchill.

It’s refreshing to see a company like Disney have the courage to be a different. To spice things up. To think outside the box. I only wish they had been more original in their fabrications. A little bit more creative. Simply blaming the Clinton administration for everything is worn out.