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September 09, 2006

If I Could Turn Back Time

Apparently, President Bush and the White House gang are hoping that the 5th anniversary of 9/11 will turn back time and get Americans to remember a time when he seemed to be a leader that we needed in a time of crisis. Well, at least he looked that way on top of the pile at Ground Zero.

When President Bush and his top aides gathered in July to plan a strategy for the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, it was clear to all that they had to try to reset the clock -- back to a time, before Iraq, when portraying Bush as a steely commander in chief was a far simpler task, and before Katrina, when questions about the administration's competence did not weigh so heavily.

All that is fine, but its even more important to look at what has happened since that day.

We invaded a country that not only had nothing to do with the attacks on 9/11, but had rebuffed those that did it when they approached him, because Sadaam saw them as a threat to his leadership.

We invaded Afghanistan to topple the Taliban and get Osama Bin Laden. The taliban is making a comeback now, including having the Pakistanis turn over the border to them this week, and Osama is still putting out tapes.

Homeland Security was created, and the first disaster they faced, Hurricane Katrina, showed that they lacked even the most basic knowledge of disaster relief. Before that, when there were concerns about chemical attacks on the nation's capital, they told us to buy plastic sheeting and duct tape.

The White House can try all they want to go back to 2001, but their performance since then shows that George W. Bush and his administration will go down in history as one of the worst in the history of our nation.

Posted by Alan at September 9, 2006 07:58 AM