OK...all together now: "We HAVE been hit again since 9/11!"

[farmbo]

What's wrong with you people?! :banghead:

Everyone in the Democratic party all the way up to Howard Dean (see the Nora O'Donnell Hardball interview) seems to be accepting the Rovian frame that Bush's anti-terror policy is a success since "...we haven't been hit again on American soil since 9/11."

Doesn't anyone remember the Anthrax Attacks??

Even after 9/11, the Bush Administration failed to defend us from a series of anthrax attacks in October and November of 2001. As Tom Englehardt wrote last year: http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?p...

"The anthrax attacks of 2001 are now so out of memory that it's hard to recall the panic and fear caused by the appearance of those first envelopes, spilling deadly powder and containing threatening letters. But according to a LexisNexis search, between Oct. 4 and Dec. 4, 2001, 389 stories appeared in the New York Times with "anthrax" in the headline. In that same period, 238 such stories appeared in the Washington Post. That's the news equivalent of an unending, high-pitched scream of horror...Looked at with a cool eye, this buried nightmare could be seen as the more threatening of the two attacks that year.... The 9/11 assaults were, of course, vastly more costly in lives -- almost 3,000 dead against just 5 from anthrax inhalation. On the other hand, the al-Qaeda strike only simulated a weapon-of-mass-destruction attack....With the anthrax killer, no sci-fi imaginings were necessary. He (she, them) used an actual weapon of mass destruction -- highly refined anthrax, the Ames strain that almost certainly fell out of the not-so-perfectly guarded American Cold War weapons labs. <snip>

Of course, there have been absolutely no arrests for the anthrax attacks and the investigation thus far has closely resembled a Keystone Cops routine. Because the investigation has gone nowhere, we can not rule out Islamic terrorists. Yet this open-ended story has largely been spiked: it simply does not fit in to the Rovian frame of: "Thanks to President Bush's strong leadership, we haven't been hit again."

From now on until forever, Democrats need to stop the loudmouths who claim we "haven't been hit again"-- in mid-sentence if necessary-- and remind them of the anthrax attacks.

[Cha]

1. Please Email this

to Dean at the DNC.

How quickly we forget the Freakin' Scare known as Anthrax through the mail right after the bushits were asleep at the wheel(self-induced?) on 9/11.

[Karenca]

2. And, besides from the Anthrax attacks........

Imagine (god forbid)
if we were hit.......
remember Katrina.

[flpoljunkie]

3. We have not forgotten, but the M$M damn sure seems to have forgotten!

[treestar]

4. Don't even need to go there

They can't prove they prevented any attack unless they can show evidence that there was going to be one.

There was no other attack planned; this is purely imaginary.

Or based on the concept that attacking Afghanistan and Iraq "taught them a lesson." A doubtful proposition.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. They've also prevented the Earth from hurtling into the Sun.

:eyes:

[Toots]

6. Or the Washington Sniper

That is terrorism as well.

[soothsayer]

7. I was just thinking about those snipers when gassing up last nite.

Those were scary times! Poor lady was killed not far from my house. I knew exactly where they had to have been shooting from (school across the hiway from home depot) but it took the authorities quite awhile to reach the same conclusion.