No, I Didn't

[arisbe]

Vote for Bush. Even though I pulled his lever.

I was voting against the other clown. The one who invented the Internet. The one whose wife wants the government in charge of popular music.

I was wrong.

When the Democrats left office they left behind them at least one strong and effective policy against terrorism. Hijacked aircraft were to be intercepted and forced down. Immediately. No discretion. No exceptions. No excuses. And the world knew it.

On June 1, 2001, Rumsfeld's Pentagon trashed it. Now there would be no interceptions. Except on the order of Donald Rumsfeld. And on September 11 there was no such order. None that we know of. And nobody cares.

So one bright Tuesday morning I stood behind the glass walls of a Manhattan office tower and watched a neighboring tower burn. And then another one.

I don't like Kerry any more than I liked what's his name. But I don't think I'll make the same mistake twice.

Comments

[vajranatha.livejournal.com]

You forgot to mention that Senator Al Gore had actually drafted a law, based on the premise that airlines were an imminent terrorist target. This law would have made all passenger airlines have steel reinforced cockpit doors.

Now you know as well as I how often, when a president enters office, he often pushes through legislation of his own liking. It is conceivable that had our popular president actually got into office, rather than the current military/oil complex fascists, 9/11 might never have happened...

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Even without the reinforced cockpit doors, it might not have happened if there was no chance the planes would get through to their targets.

Please don't call these people Fascists. It gives Benito a bad name.