The dawn of a beautiful Tuesday morning was obscured by gray clouds of horror as West Coast residents turned on the television or headed for work in the Highway 101 commute.
It was September 11, 2001 The Word Trade Center towers collapsed after hijacked airplanes were flown into them. There was smoke at the Pentagon. A bomb (which didn't turn out to be true) went off at the State Department. Hijacked planes were still unaccounted for. One was a flight headed to San Francisco, later found out to have crashed in Pennsylvania.
It seemed like the world was going to end that day.
That afternoon, in a bipartisan gathering on the steps of the Capitol Building, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle told the nation, "We--Republicans & Democrats, House and Senate--stand strongly behind the President and will work together to insure that the full resources of the Government are brought to bear in these efforts (bringing terrorists "to justice"). What Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, called "the sleeping giant" awoke and was roused with a fierce resolve once again.
Sadly, five years later, the giant is sleeping again.
It began as the mainstream media thought the footage of 9/11 was "too disturbing" and took it off the air. Now, crazy conspiracy theories about the origins of 9/11 are too numerous (and ridiculous to mention).
As the flags which flew on our cars began to tatter and the stickers began to fade, so did the “unity” among our leaders. They must have thought the War on Terror was supposed to last as long as a season of Survivor.
President Bush and his administration have remained true to their pledge to pursue the threat of terrorism and keep America's citizens safe. It doesn't mean he's done a perfect job, but he is aware of the grave threat facing our nation and willing to take the lead, regardless of polls.
The same cannot be said for the current leadership of the Democratic Party, their grassroots activists and Leftist allies. Instead of keeping true to their promise of unity in fighting terrorism, these recycled relics of the 1960s are more interested in the selfish reacquisition of political power. The most the Democratic leadership could muster for unity in fighting terrorism was a sophomoric version of "God Bless America" on the Capitol steps. Instead, America's fight against Islamic terrorism has been undermined by the worst partisanship and ideological divide in its history, thanks to the Democrat leadership and the lies they've spewed.
The old tradition of "politics stops at the water's edge" during wartime no longer applies. While President Bush as Commander-in-Chief leads our brave military in the fight against Islamofacist terror, Howard "the Duck" Dean, "Dirty Harry" Reid and Nancy Bella-Pelosi lead the fight against the Bush Administration.
Democrats and their Leftist allies are more interested in the rights of those who would commit acts of terror and how the rest of the world views America . They've used documented liars like Joe Wilson to undermine public credibility in the Administration. They attack secret methods used to track terrorist communications and funds instead of the traitors who leaked them. They show more anger at women's underwear on the heads of a terrorists than the beheadings of American civilians or the gruesome dismemberment of two kidnapped Marines, one of whom was also disemboweled.
Even more frightening, if Democrats are successful in attaining leadership status in November's election, they are promising impeachment proceedings of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
Now, five years after 9/11, the Democratic party fights the airing of the ABC docudrama
The Path to 9/11 more than Islamofascist terrorists. Why? Because the program shows documented incidents from the 1990s when their icon, Bill Clinton, failed to nab Osama bin Laden and fight Islamic terrorism. It shows how the Democratic party is weak on issues of security. For all their concern about the truth of the ABC program, they weren't concerned about the lies told by that lard ass Michael Moore in his treasonous
Fahrenheit 9/11. Tom Daschle, Terry "the Punk" McAuliffe and Barbara "Check Bouncer" Boxer all attended the premiere. None of these Democrats attended the premiere of either
United 93 or
World Trade Center.
Drive around Marin County, CA and you see Bush Derangement Syndrome in hyper mode. This county had more of an uproar about being called "hot tubbers" by the elder Bush than the treason of Marinite John Walker Lindh (a.k.a. "Ratboy"). Our so-called representative, Lynn Woolsey, is not ashamed to appear with terrorist enablers Code Pinko or so-called "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan, a psychopathic woman who wrote
how she fantasized about going back in time to kill the infant George W. Bush and prevent the War in Iraq.
On top of it all, these Leftists have the nerve to call themselves "patriots." They don't even know the meaning of the word. Am I questioning their patriotism? You're damn right I am! Their behavior is not only unpatriotic, it is un American.
Wake up you Leftist fools! The Islamofascists of 9/11 were equal opportunity butchers. The nearly 3,000 casualties were murdered regardless of nationality, political ideology, race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. What makes the foolish among our political and pseudo-intellectual class think they can reason with such madmen? These appeasing fools are more dangerous than their brethren of the 1930s. Neville Chamberlain (before his death) and isolationists like Charles Lindbergh eventually saw how they were deceived by Hitler and united behind the Allied war effort.
If Bill Clinton pursued Osama bin Laden with the same vigor he used in straining blue dresses or fighting a TV movie, 9/11 might not have happened. If today's elected Democrats fought terrorism with the same fervor as they fight ABC and the Bush Administration, we might be closer to winning the War on Terror.
