Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Terrorists Encouraged by Zell Miller
Anti-American terrorist forces in Iraq have likely been enboldened by Democratic Senator Zell Miller's recent criticism of former White House chief of counter-terrorism Richard A. Clarke:
Confident that any effort to uncover why the U.S. government failed to prevent the 9/11 attacks -- despite significant prior information -- will be blocked, anti-American forces surely realize they can act with impunity. With demagogues like Miller willing to cast as "appeasers" anyone who tries to get at the root of our failure to prevent 9/11, terrorists are safe in the knowledge that nothing will be done to stop them as long as doing so harms George Bush politically.
While 201k cherishes the freedoms all Americans enjoy, it's clear that with people like Miller aiding and comforting the enemy, there need be limits on freedom. Those who, like Miller, encourage terrorists, must be silenced. The safety of our troops -- indeed, of all Americans -- depends on it.
March 31, 2004Clearly, evil forces have taken encouragement from the fact that U.S. Senator Zell Miller has publicly criticized Clarke -- the man widely recognized as most responsible for the pursuit of terrorist enemies of the U.S. -- and called into question the patriotism of any American who supports the 9/11 commission's demand that president George Bush cooperate with their investigation.
5 G.I.'s and 4 Contractors Are Killed in Separate Attacks
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and JOHN F. BURNS
ALLUJA, Iraq, March 31 -- An enraged mob attacked a group of foreign contractors here today, shooting four people to death, burning their vehicles, dragging their bodies through the downtown streets and then hanging the charred corpses from a bridge.
Meanwhile, less than 15 miles away, in the same area of the increasingly violent Sunni Triangle, five marines were killed in one of the deadliest roadside bomb incidents for coalition troops in weeks. The marines were traveling through a dusty village along a supply route when the explosion ripped into their vehicles.
The steadily deteriorating security situation in the Falluja area, west of Baghdad, has become so dangerous that no American soldiers or Iraqi security staff responded to the attack against the contractors.
Confident that any effort to uncover why the U.S. government failed to prevent the 9/11 attacks -- despite significant prior information -- will be blocked, anti-American forces surely realize they can act with impunity. With demagogues like Miller willing to cast as "appeasers" anyone who tries to get at the root of our failure to prevent 9/11, terrorists are safe in the knowledge that nothing will be done to stop them as long as doing so harms George Bush politically.
While 201k cherishes the freedoms all Americans enjoy, it's clear that with people like Miller aiding and comforting the enemy, there need be limits on freedom. Those who, like Miller, encourage terrorists, must be silenced. The safety of our troops -- indeed, of all Americans -- depends on it.
