Freak Flag Fly

Will Democrats Have the Nuts to Respond "LESS SAFE UNDER BUSH"?

Karl Rove has already telegraphed that he is going to the national security 9/11 well again for the '06 election.

Democrats better grow some collective nuts and take the national security issue HEAD ON.

Know this: Americans are sick to death of Bush's rank exploitation of 9/11 for his preexisting neocon and religious world views. We are sick of being told to shut up and let the president kick some brown ass.

So call the Iraq War what it is, a major strategic blunder sold on lies and carried out with supreme incompetence.

Then, weave Iraq into a narrative about how we are Less Safe.

The Iraq War, the dehumanization of Iraqi lives on American television, continued support for hard right political parties in Israel, the re-loss of Afghanistan, torture, bombing Al-Jazzeera: all have confirmed across a vast swath of the global population the view of the U.S. as a predator, and multiplied the recruits for violent anti-Americanism.

In other parts of the globe, North Korea goes nuclear, Iran verges on nuclear capabilities, China holds tons of U.S. debt, and the South America is reveling in some kind of anticapitalist hit parade.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, domestic civil liberties are quashed, hackable voting systems leave civil rights tenuous, and the media are populated with right wing lackeys.

And hey! Bin Laden is still alive and clucking and evading the long arm of justice. Message to Bush: Thanks for getting the guy who hit us on 9/11 like you promised, ashwipe.

Republicans cringe at the thought of the Democratic Party growing nuts like this.

So say it with me: Bush's conduct of the War on Terrorism has made the U.S. more susceptible to terrorism. Less Safe. Less Safe. Less Safe. Say it. Embrace it. Be it. Repeat it. Combine it with the mish mash about domestic priorities and culture of corruption and blah blah blah, but keep saying it, and shove it down Karl Rove's bilious bile sac.

(Oh, and, about those voting systems--get on it NOW-- The technology is very vulnerable, and is developed and in many cases administered by partisans. The Bushcult has a zealous faith in their own righteousness and will do what it takes to fulfill their self-annointed mission.)