Dick Cheney, Tony Snow, Other Republicans Politicize War On Terror
Robert Paul Reyes
August 14, 2006
Asking Vice President Dick Cheney to provide an honest assessment of anti-war challenger Ned Lamont's Democratic primary win over Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, an Iraq war supporter, is like asking Jerry Falwell to give an honest appraisal of the "Vagina Monologues."
An objective analysis would conclude that Lamont's victory mirrors the American public's growing disenchantment with the Iraq war.
The vice president opined that Lamont's victory might encourage "the al-Qaeda types" who want to "break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task."
Dick Cheny should spend less time politicizing the war on terrorism, and more time actually fighting terrorists. The Bush administration can start by capturing the leading al Qaeda type, bin Laden.
Al Qaeda types are too busy figuring out novel ways to blow up airplanes, to waste any time pondering the results of a Democratic primary in Connecticut.
Cheney wasn't the only prominent Republican who tried to spin Lamont's victory as proof that Democrats are weak on terrorism.
Press Secretary Tony Snow said that the "Lamont victory showed Democrats have the wrong position on the war on terror."
At a time when terrorists are coming up with new and diabolical ways to commit mass murder, Republicans shouldn't be politicizing the war on terror. If there's any issue that merits a bipartisan approach, it's the war on terror. Do we need another 9/11 to bring this country together again?
An objective analysis would conclude that Lamont's victory mirrors the American public's growing disenchantment with the Iraq war.
The vice president opined that Lamont's victory might encourage "the al-Qaeda types" who want to "break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task."
Dick Cheny should spend less time politicizing the war on terrorism, and more time actually fighting terrorists. The Bush administration can start by capturing the leading al Qaeda type, bin Laden.
Al Qaeda types are too busy figuring out novel ways to blow up airplanes, to waste any time pondering the results of a Democratic primary in Connecticut.
Cheney wasn't the only prominent Republican who tried to spin Lamont's victory as proof that Democrats are weak on terrorism.
Press Secretary Tony Snow said that the "Lamont victory showed Democrats have the wrong position on the war on terror."
At a time when terrorists are coming up with new and diabolical ways to commit mass murder, Republicans shouldn't be politicizing the war on terror. If there's any issue that merits a bipartisan approach, it's the war on terror. Do we need another 9/11 to bring this country together again?
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