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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

Quote For The Day
19 Jun 2008 01:17 pm
"I refuse to be lectured on national security by people who are  
responsible for the most disastrous set of foreign policy decisions in  
the recent history of the United States. The other side likes to use  
9/11 as a political bludgeon. Well, let’s talk about 9/11.
The people who were responsible for murdering 3,000 Americans on 9/11  
have not been brought to justice."
They are Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda and their sponsors – the Taliban.  
They were in Afghanistan. And yet George Bush and John McCain decided  
in 2002 that we should take our eye off of Afghanistan so that we  
could invade and occupy a country that had absolutely nothing to do  
with 9/11. The case for war in Iraq was so thin that George Bush and  
John McCain had to hype the threat of Saddam Hussein, and make false  
promises that we’d be greeted as liberators. They misled the American  
people, and took us into a misguided war.
Here are the results of their policy. Osama bin Laden and his top  
leadership – the people who murdered 3000 Americans – have a safe- 
haven in northwest Pakistan, where they operate with such freedom of  
action that they can still put out hate-filled audiotapes to the  
outside world. That’s the result of the Bush-McCain approach to the  
war on terrorism," - Barack Obama, yesterday.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/06/quote-for-th-29.html#more