The Left has no answer to London plot

[Snowden]

The Left has no answer to London plot
By Mike Gallagher
Friday, August 11, 2006



I had a really weird reaction to the news that British authorities thwarted a massive terror attack on scores of American and British passenger airliners this week. Naturally, I felt a wave of appreciation and pride for the intelligence gathering personnel who managed to head off this latest evil scheme. I was enormously relieved that countless men, women and children were spared a terrible death by the maniacal Islamic extremists hellbent on slaughtering the innocent.

But I immediately wondered what Cindy Sheehan and Ned Lamont are saying now.

Lamont beat Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut primary with a simple, solid, consistent drumbeat of a theme: we need to tuck tail and lose the war in Iraq immediately. No more fighting, forget any progress made in that troubled part of the world, we just need to get out, he says. Now.

When a slick millionaire cable executive is able to articulate that position of failure, it appears that enough Connecticut Democrats will swallow it. Frankly, it does seem mildly appealing, at least to the simple-minded. Who likes hearing about American soldiers coming home in body bags? How many obituaries showing young, fresh faces can we bear to see?

But even a person of limited intelligence and wisdom is able to absorb the events of the past two days and see how foolish and ridiculous Lamont’s position really is.

Somehow, the loony left has managed to convince a fair number of Americans that Iraq has nothing to do with Al-Qaeda or terrorism. I don’t quite know how they’ve managed to do that. A simple Google search of legitimate, reliable news sources can confirm the miles and miles of irrefutable connections between the bad guys of Iraq and the bad guys of terrorism.

You don’t believe me? Go ahead and look it up. Ask where the mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking fled after slaughtering an American named Leon Klinghoffer, way back in 1985. You doubt the connections? Find out where the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing sought – and received – safe harbor. I’ll give you a hint: they were sheltered in a city spelled B-a-g-h-d-a-d.

Furthermore, investigate the mountains of documents confirming meetings between top level Al-Qaeda leaders and high-ranking members of the Iraqi government.

No, the anti-war voices in America are lying when they say there is no connection between Iraq and terrorism. And they know it.

So now that we know that another 9/11-type attack was nearly successful, what could Ned Lamont possibly say?

Cindy Sheehan likes to say that President Bush “killed (her) son.”

Do you think she considers how many sons and daughters would have been killed over American and British skies had this plot not been uncovered? Does she care?

Callers to my radio show today ran the gamut over this latest example of terrorist threats. One man made the perfect analogy, comparing the way we teach our children to stand up to the schoolyard bully to the way the United States is leading the world-wide war on terror. “Every culture understands this concept”, he said. “If the bully is left alone, he never goes away. Ned Lamont and many liberal Democrats think if we leave the terrorists alone, they’ll just peacefully mind their own business, never bothering us again.” I thought his point was terrific.

And then there was Amanda.

She was calling from Colorado, and she chastised me for embracing violence as a solution to violence. “You right-wingers love blood and guts and you never have any sympathy for the other side”, she said. “The other side?” I asked. “You mean the terrorists?” She responded with a sneer in her voice: “You just don’t understand. They feel that WE’RE the terrorists. You conservatives are wrong in defining this war as something between good and evil.”

I had just about had enough. “Amanda, let me ask you something”, I said. “Do you consider the 19 hijackers of 9/11 evil?” Long pause. “No, I do not,” she replied. “We should look at ourselves to discover what we did to make them hate us so much. This is all our fault.”

Make no mistake, this woman was serious. I actually told her I hoped she was a comedienne, someone making a prank call to a national radio show. She assured me that she was not. So I had to ask her what she did for a living. Her answer will haunt me for a long, long time: “I’m a schoolteacher.”

This war is so complicated because we are fighting an entity that is all over the world, an enemy with no geographical boundaries. It’s also tough because we all know that it’s a war that will be fought for many, many generations.

But most of all, it’s so difficult because not every one of our enemies are named Ahmed and Muhammad and Abdul.

Some of America’s enemies in this war are named Ned. And Cindy. And Amanda.



http://www.townhall.com/columnists/M...to_london_plot

[Bluehawk]

I hate to have to agree, but I agree.

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“Amanda, let me ask you something”, I said. “Do you consider the 19 hijackers of 9/11 evil?” Long pause. “No, I do not,” she replied. “We should look at ourselves to discover what we did to make them hate us so much. This is all our fault.”

I wouldn't want her teaching my kids.

[drywall]

The lefties in MN just use the standard line "it's Bush's fault". They aren't all that imaginative up here.......

[BrianK]

I expect the left to begin critisizing Pres. Bush for knowing on sunday that a plot was in place. Their complaint I imagine will be that they were not kept in the loop of information.

Given the track record of those loonies on the left that leak info on every level of operational intelligence I'm glad the president had to good sense not to trust them with any information.

I can only imagine the headlines & article in the New York Times.

Pakistani Use of Illegal Wiretaps Discovers Plot to Kill Thousands.

It was learned sunday from a source inside the beltway that the U.S. the U.K. & Pakistan are about to arrest members of a suspected Pakistani cell living in the U.K. The plan to make chemical bombs assembled while in flight was uncovered by intelligence sources and shared by the 3 countries.

Of course the article would go on to explain how their rights might be violated & that racial profiling will be considered as the basis for filing a lawsuit on their behalf.

[odannyboy]

Right wing agit prop greedily devoured by unthinking, unquestioning cheerleaders.

The Republicans, those who made this country so much less safe from terrorism by invading Iraq, needs a new motto for those who lap up this tripe:

Ignorance is thy shield.

(I love how they are attacking Lamont for wanting to end this bloody mistake called Iraq. Now he is an "enemy".)

You don’t believe me? Go ahead and look it up. Ask where the mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking fled after slaughtering an American named Leon Klinghoffer, way back in 1985. You doubt the connections? Find out where the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing sought – and received – safe harbor. I’ll give you a hint: they were sheltered in a city spelled B-a-g-h-d-a-d.

I can't believe there are Americans buying this line. 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi yet we sent home over 100 Saudi's, to include relatives of Bin Laden, without even questioning them. It just goes to show you people who are unthinking supporters of this President watch FOX for a reason:

It tells them what they want to believe. And they want to believe invading Iraq was a good idea

"Ned Lamont may have won the primary but his supporters are not mainstream Democrats. They’re against the Iraq war. A position so extreme that only 86% of Democrats agree with him

With Ned Lamont’s remarkable victory in Tuesdays Connecticut Senate primary over Senator Joe Lieberman, those on the other side of the aisle have been looking to paint Lamont supporters as "fringe" and "out of touch with mainstream America." However, a quick glance at recent polling shows that Ned Lamont’s camp is certainly "in touch" with the majority of Americans and overhwleming so with the Democratic party as a whole. With the MSM’s penchant for polling, it’s amazing that this rhetoric is peddled and accepted with little to no scrutiny."

[Caldric]

I got an answer for the plot. Called firing squad at one time.

Somehow, the loony left has managed to convince a fair number of Americans that Iraq has nothing to do with Al-Qaeda or terrorism.

Well unfortunately Saddam hated Al-Qaeda and does not appear they operated out of Iraq. Saddam was not what you would call a strong Muslim. I doubt he cared for Gods very much at all actually. Now post war with Zarqawi it became so, Bin Laden made him a commander after he start killining Iraq. But there is no reason to believe he was AQ before the war.