[Talking Points Memo]
Last night when discussing the White House's truth-bending revisionism on Tora Bora, I wrote that I had been "pretty skeptical of the Bush team's revisionism on this count since the outlines of the Kerry critique have been a commonplace in national security and counter-terrorism circles for literally years."
You'll remember that what I'm referring to here as 'Kerry's critique' is the charge that the US let bin Laden get away at Tora Bora because we 'outsourced' the job to local warlords and militiaman. The Bush campaign is now calling that a lie. Dick Cheney says it's "absolute garbage" and the campaign has enlisted retired general and now Bush surrogate Tommy Franks to help back their case.
Look at the lede of this Washington Post article from April 17, 2002 ...
The Bush administration has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora late last year and that failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him was its gravest error in the war against al Qaeda, according to civilian and military officials with first-hand knowledge.
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Why is it the "left" that is accused of revisionist histroy?
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This is something I should post at fuckingliar.com :-)
It occurs to me that Americans are voting their pleasures, they are totally self indulgent. Americans want to "feel" safe, whether they are safe or not. But the notion that we are willing to wreck mayhem on any place and and peoples on the planet for our comfort is going to come back and bit us: what goes around comes around.
Seeing what Bush is doing, I understand the mind of the terrorist. Occupied, patronized, exploited and having by family maimed, killed: I'd do the same. I'd take the fight to the enemy.
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