I'm So Tired Of This Bullshit (With Update)

Via Think Progress:

During his withdrawal speech at CPAC today, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney claimed that an electoral victory by either Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) or Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) “would mean attacks on America” because he says they would “retreat, declare defeat.” “About this, I have no doubt,” added Romney. * * *

Romney’s parting shot is reminescent of Vice President Dick Cheney’s claim in 2004 that America would “get hit again” if voters made “the wrong choice” and elected Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) president.

First of all, good riddance. Romney's quest to become president really didn't take off because (1) he's an asshole, and (2) he's a member of a cult. Sorry Mitt, but no amount of money was going to change those two things.

But I'm not writing this post to state obvious shit like that. I'm writing it because I'm tired of these GOP idiots -- who don't know their asses from a hole in the ground -- claiming that they can fight terrorism better than Democrats when it was the Republicans who totally fucked things up in the first place.

With regard to the 9-11 attacks, Israeli intelligence warned the U.S. in August 2001 that major terror attacks on U.S. soil were imminent, yet these warnings were apparently ignored by our Republican administration. Other countries reportedly gave similar warnings to the U.S. during the run-up to September 11.

Condi Rice's incredible post-9-11 statement that "I don't think anybody could have predicted ... that [terrorists] would try to use an airplane as a missile" has, of course, been thoroughly discredited. And Jesus, Mary and Joseph -- on September 11, 2001, then-National Security Adviser Rice was going to deliver a speech on the topic of national security in which there would be no mention at all of Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda or Islamic fundamentalist groups. But she never got a chance to deliver that speech because . . . well, an Islamic fundamentalist group known as al Qaeda (the leader of which was a guy named Osama bin Laden) decided to attack us on that day. Way to go, Condi.

In fact, it is very clear that the Bush Regime, i.e., Republicans, screwed up big time during the run-up to 9-11, and then decided that the best way to ultimately respond to the 9-11 attacks was to (1) let bin Laden escape from Tora Bora and then (2) invade and occupy a country that had nothing to do with the attacks on September 11, 2001 (which of course caused the needless deaths of thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and also caused the U.S. to take its eyes off of Afghanistan, which in turn led to the clusterfuck that is currently taking place in that country).

And these Republicans claim that a Democrat would screw things up if one was to win the presidency in 2008? Give me a fucking break.

UPDATE: Dick Cheney said this today at CPAC:

“Guiding this nation through a time of peril is a very tough job, and the right man is in it,’’ the vice president said. “The absence of another 9/11 is not an accident. It is an achievement.’’

The crowd rose to its feet cheering Cheney on this.

So what's your point, Dick? You guys had your heads up your asses during the run-up to the 9-11 attacks -- and 3000 Americans died as a result -- so you basically want us all to give you a pat on the back now that you've shut the barn door after the horses have escaped? And speaking of escapes, where the hell is bin Laden?