Say Anything Blog

...Iraq war critics have started to pretend that the threat from al Qaeda doesn’t exist, and instead spend the majority of their time poking their sticks into the sides of those who aren’t quite so sanguine about al Qaeda’s intentions.

Of course, the irony here is that you’d think this would work the other way around: the Bush Kultists, so confident in their flight-suited superhero’s power to cowboy up and protect us all from harm with his nuclear-strapped utility belt and army of super soldiers, would fear nothing from the feeble and impotent robed bluster of a tiny network of bearded hyper-fundamentalist Islamist cranks.

And yet, it seems those who claim to despise Bush are secretly so confident in him and his administration ("hell, when that man says he’s gonna invade a country, by God he does it—none of this feckless, furrow-browed Jimmy Carter bullshit!") that it is they who regard 911 as a lucky blow. And now that Dear Leader is in charge, there’s simply no way al Qaeda could hit us with anything dangerous like bioweapons. Not under Dubya’s steely watch! And most certainly not with Swinging Dick Cheney second in command!

Or maybe it’s just that they’d rather not think about the implications of a bio attack. Which, hey, I can understand that. Sometimes children like to close their eyes and go to their happy place...

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