Monday, August 14, 2006

Tuesday to Thursday

Michael Barone notes how all the anti-terrorism criticisms dissipated once the London plot reminded us we’re still at war:

Our Left criticized George W. Bush when The New York Times revealed that the National Security Agency was surveilling telephone calls from al-Qaida suspects overseas to the United States. Now it appears that the United States surveilled the British terrorists, and that they made phone calls to the United States. The Left cried foul when The New York Times revealed that the United States was monitoring money transfers at the SWIFT bank clearinghouse in Brussels. Now it appears that there was monitoring of money transfers by the British terrorists in Pakistan. On Tuesday, the Left was gleeful that it was scoring political points against George W. Bush. On Thursday, it seemed that the supposedly controversial NSA surveillance contributed to savings thousands of lives.
Nothing to see here, move along. (HT: Gateway Pundit)

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh yes, "all" the criticisms "dissipated" on Thursday.

And also, Bush's approval rating jumped to 90%, and we turned another 15 corners in Iraq.

Think back. Remember all those native-born British citizens who were in Muslim terror cells planning their acts of international carnage, long before Tony Blair even began his "yessir, yessir" lapdog act? There were almost too many to count, so for the sake of argument, let's not even try counting. Merciful heavens, when we look back with nostalgia at even the smallest suggestion that some of Blair/Bush's decisions were the inspiration that triggered plots such as last week's... those suggestions have all dissipated!

Anonymous said...

"Remember all those native-born British citizens who were in Muslim terror cells planning their acts of international carnage"

Clever distinction, one that excludes Abu Hamza al-Masri, Richard Reid, and Zacarias Moussaoui.

Anonymous said...

Dang! How could I forget about those three? They're the unindicted ringleaders of the 2006 London liquid bomb plot!