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Democrats should not fall into the trap of thinking that this is too obvious to mention. It needs to be repeated over and over again.
Before September 11, the Frat Boy downplayed the importance of counterintelligence. Even on September 11, he told counterintelligence chief Richard Clarke to "look into" Saddam's connection to the attack; Clarke already knew there was and said so, but the Frat Boy told him to look again. Later, when Clarke said that the focus should be on Afghanistan because that's where Osama was, Rumsfeld said we should respond to the attacks by bombing Iraq and complained, "There are no good targets in Afghanistan." Six months after September 11, as seen on the video, the Frat Boy was claiming that Osama "was not important." During the election campaign, again on the video, he denied saying that.
The Frat Boy's response to the attacks was forming immediately after the attacks. Neoconservatives had long before published justifications for their wet dream of invading Iraq, and facts were not going to deter them from masturbating on their sheets. They finally realized that they would have to invade Afghanistan first, but only because it was too obvious that it was really necessary to do that in order to strike at al Qaida. Nevertheless, they thought of Afghanistan as little more than a detour on the way to Iraq. Even then, they made little serious effort to kill or capture Osama, and did not succeed in doing so for the Frat Boy's remaining seven years in the White House. The reason the image of the Frat Boy doing nothing for seven minutes after being informed that the United States had been attack is because that was so emblematic of his response. The Frat Boy responded to attacks on the US by terrorists under the direction of Osama bin Laden by making a half-hearted effort to kill or capture him, then invading Iraq and taking out Saddam, who had nothing to do with the attacks. In addition, the Frat Boy's "global war on terror" included direct violations of established international law, including torture and a war of aggression not justified by any established fact, trampling the Bill of Rights and casting aside the Writ of Habeus Corpus. It is as if the Frat Boy and his minions were telling us that it was necessary to destroy the very idea of America in order to save it. Even so, none of that netted the corpse of Osama bin Laden or even contributed to Osama's inglorious end.
It is damning Obama with faint praise to say nothing more than he's a better president than the Frat Boy. Nevertheless, we need say nothing to refute the argument that Obama is the worst president in history because, as intelligent people know, the Frat Boy is.
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