In Every Single Case, The Truth Is That The Atmosphere Created By The Iraq Invasion And The Staggeringly Mismanaged Occupation Has Incited Terrorists To Act. It's Been A Contributing Factor. It's Unavoidable Throughout Europe - In Spain, In Germany, In Britain. The Truth Is That We Need Long-term American Policy To Shift In Order To Really Soak Up And Get Rid Of These Sources Of Terrorism That Threaten Our Western Allies.
I Call George W. Bush A Radical Because He Is Undertaking A Fundamental Transformation Of Our Constitutional System Of Government And Of Our Longstanding Policies That Have Been Accepted For Literally Generations. He Thinks To Concentrate Unaccountable Power In The Executive. He Thinks You Alter The Laws So That, As Commander In Chief, He Can Determine, Under What He Says Are Wartime Conditions, What The Laws Are, Which Laws Should Be Enforced, And Declare By Fiat What Our Policy Should Be, Even Abrogating Longstanding International Treaties.
George W. Bush Has Exhibited Hostility To Science That No Other President Has Ever Displayed.
George W. Bush Has Deliberately Polarized And Divided America For Political Purposes, Politicizing The Most Basic Questions Of War And Peace For Partisan Advantage.
The Bush Administration, And Particularly Bush's Chief Political Strategist And Deputy Chief Of Staff, Karl Rove, Have Been Expert In Both Galvanizing And Mobilizing The Fears And Resentments Of People. A Good Part Of Their Politics Consists Of Being Against Others Who Are Defined In Stereotypical Terms. These Others Don't, In Actual Reality, Exist. The So-called Democratic Elitists, For Example, Are A Stereotype Who They Can Hate. Anyone Who Watches Fox News Or Listens To Rush Limbaugh Knows That This Hatred Of The Other Is At The Core Of Their Politics.
It's Absolutely Crucial For The Democrats To Have A Sense Of Their History, Of Who They Are, In Order To Be Able To Project Their Values And Stand Up For Them.
Clinton Was Very Early On Aware Of The Problem Of International Terrorism.
In A Sense, George W. Bush Has Used The Tragedy Of The Terrorist Attacks Of September 11th And The Nightmarish Expansion Of His Idea Of A War On Terror To Overshadow His Actual Conduct In Office On The Redistribution Of Wealth Upward Through Progressive Tax Cuts That Actually Penalize The Vast Majority Of The Public, And Shift Their Resources To A Narrow Band At The Very, Very Top.
The Attack On Clinton On Terrorism Is Entirely Politically Inspired By The Right-wing Of The Republicans, And Has No Basis In Fact Whatsoever.
On The Contrary, It Might Even Be A Projection Of What The Truth Is Of The Bush Administration's Complacency And Ineptitude On The Terrorism In Its First 9 Months In Office.
Even On Education, His One Accomplishment, The Leave No Child Behind Act, And He Has Left It Unfunded.
The George W. Bush Universe Of Threats Is A Constantly Expanding Universe As He Moves To Politically Higher Ground, Escaping From Failure After Failure. He's Not Only Radical, But The Consequences Of His Radicalism Have Been Catastrophic.
