Bed Wetters at Fox News launch all-out war against John Brennan
In the wake of White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan's criticism of Republicans for politicizing the Obama administration's response to the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight, Fox News guests and hosts have responded by attacking Brennan and the administration over its handling of the bombing plot. Fox has gone so far as to ask whether Brennan should resign, and has repeatedly hosted Republican Sen. Kit Bond to say that he should.
*Brennan: "I'm tiring of politicians using national security issues such as terrorism as a political football"
Brennan criticizes politicians who are using national security for "political or partisan purposes." On the February 7 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, Brennan criticized "politicians using national security issues such as terrorism as a political football," saying, "They are going out there, they're, they're unknowing of the facts, and they're making charges and allegations that are not anchored in reality." He further stated, "I'm just very concerned on the behalf of the counterterrorism professionals throughout our government that politicians continue to make this a political football and are using it for whatever political or partisan purposes, whether they be Democrats or Republicans."
Brennan repeats criticism in USA Today op-ed. In a February 9 USA Today op-ed, Brennan wrote: "Politics should never get in the way of national security. But too many in Washington are now misrepresenting the facts to score political points, instead of coming together to keep us safe." He further stated, "Politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaeda."
All the conservative crocodile tears of abject fear that al-Qaeda is going to kill them all as they sleep is even good political theatrics. Its a public relations gift from Republicans to al-Qaeda. al-Qaeda now gets to watch their TVs and the net videos, and claim they are winning because the world can see how afraid the U.S. is as a nation.
Who is, in the real world, weak on terror? Conservatives.
The Bush Administration and its Republican Allies in Congress Are Failing on All of the Key Measures of Victory in the War on TerrorismNot to mention that invading Iraq, based on lies and childish exaggerations about WMD and connections to al Qaeda, has cost trillions of dollars and gotten American troops killed that would now be with their families or fighting actual terrorists in Afghanistan. Send your Republican Congressman or Senator( and conservative pundits like Sean Hannity) an adult diaper today, they need one.
• The Bush Administration has failed to bring to justice the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks: 2,545 days after September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri, and other key al Qaeda leaders remain free.
• The Bush Administration has failed to combat the threat of al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist networks: the intelligence community and national security experts have assessed that al Qaeda has expanded its reach, regenerated its capabilities to pre-9/11 levels, and represents the gravest threat to America's national security.
• The Bush Administration has failed to reduce global terrorist attacks: the number of worldwide terrorist attacks has grown dramatically in the past several years.
• The Bush Administration has failed to stabilize and secure Afghanistan: independent reports warn that Afghanistan faces grave threats from resurgent terrorist violence, a burgeoning drug trade, a weak government, and faltering economy.
• The Bush Administration has failed to prevent the Taliban, al Qaeda and other terrorist groups from gaining safe haven: the intelligence community has assessed al Qaeda has regained its safe haven in the tribal areas of Pakistan while the Taliban have assumed de facto control over a vast portion of eastern Afghanistan.
