Through The Looking Glass
By Barbara Stock (04/20/04)
Did you ever have a day when you feel like you are at the Mad Hatter’s Tea party? I’ve had a week like that. I fully expect that White Rabbit to pop up and announce how late he is for that very important date.
This was the week we all heard a plethora of reporters grill the President on such vital topics as, “When are you going to admit you are responsible for the September 11, 2001 attack on America?” and the immortal, “When are you going to admit you’ve made so many mistakes.” My guess is that the enemy passed out popcorn and was rolling on the floor with spasms of laughter over that press conference that gave him a total pass for the 9/11 attack. Those on the left forgot that it was the terrorists, aka--“the enemy”--that carried out that attack. You remember “the enemy”--not George Bush--I’m referring to Osama bin Laden and company--that enemy.
Within a month of the attack, the leftists had shoved the blame off the terrorists and onto the President and the country as a whole--and the Crusades. President Bush is their enemy--let no foreign terrorist stand before them. America is evil and deserved to be attacked. I had a liberal tell me that just this week. “We are horrible bullies and should expect to get our noses bloodied.” He said. “Face it,” he preached to me, “we deserved it.” I’m still stunned by that remark, though I have heard a hundred times from liberals who write to me.
Bin Laden put in his two cents this week. He would stop the killing in Europe if they would just quit helping the U.S. in our pursuit of his hide. This is a kind of confession, is it not? If there were any doubt bin Laden and his merry band of terrorists were behind the killing before, it should be put to rest by the latest from Osama’s top forty.
This was a signal that Osama is getting just a little tense about how close he is to becoming a martyr for his cause, which he really doesn’t want to be, and how many of his plans are being thwarted. Many of his followers have been killed or captured and he has got to be wondering when this all went wrong for him. The last part is the easy one to answer. It went wrong for bin Laden when Bill Clinton left office and George Bush took over and the attack of 9/11 went on as planned. When you think about it, it’s been all down hill for bin Laden ever since.
He made a monumental miscalculation and he and his rabid followers will be paying for it for years to come. That is, he will pay as long as Bush is re-elected. If Bush looses, he will have at least four years to regroup and plan more attacks as Kerry traverses the world apologizing for putting those tall buildings up in the terrorists’ way as they decided to joy-fly over New York City.
There were some 9/11 Commission hearings this week. Americans learned about “walls” that were erected to protect the terrorists’ rights while they were vacationing here in the States. We all heard that had it not been for this “wall” we could have accessed Zacarias Moussaoui’s laptop where the 9/11 attack was laid out three weeks prior to 9/11. Moussaoui is better known as “20th hijacker.”
This now infamous wall was first built in the mid-1970’s as a reaction to Watergate. It was made absolutely insurmountable by Jamie Gorelick, Janet Reno’s next in command. The problem is two-fold. She should not be on the Commission in the first place and because she is on the Commission, she cannot be called as a witness. Tom Daschle was one that put her on that Commission. When you think about it, the plan to shield her from testifying was brilliant in its simplicity.
Another question comes to mind. Ms. Gorelick felt the sudden need to make a law that had been working quite effectively for two decades even more impossible for those given the task of putting all those dots together. Her recommendation was sent directly to President Clinton who got so excited about it that he made it an Executive Order. Put simply, it ordered our FBI and CIA to talk to no one, about anything, at any time, for any reason—period. It apparently was followed to the letter, hence, we were blindsided in September of 2001. The question that keeps surfacing in my mind is a simple one—WHY?
The week has ended with the hit on a man who has probably killed more innocent people than bin Laden. The Israelis kept their word. They gave fair warning to whomever took over the top spot in the terror organization Hamas—“show your face and die.” Today, Rantisi did both. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, proud head and co-founder of one the world’s most famous groups of killers, the proud parent of the suicide bomber plan, was given a missile to chew on and it gave him extreme indigestion.
Despite this man’s illustrious history of terror and killing of innocent people by the dozen, his practice of sending children to kill for him, the world was outraged by his demise. These are the same people who refuse to condemn any terrorism carried out against Israel. America is routinely damned for vetoing United Nations resolutions condemning Israel because most in the U.N. steadfastly refuse to also condemn suicide bombers. For many in the U.N., suicide bombers who blow up buses full of school children are not to be condemned, but the removal of the animal that plans those bombings…is.
Is it any wonder that people can feel like they are at some mad tea-party these days? Liberals want apologies from the wrong people, key witnesses are asking the questions and suicide bombers are revered and those that kill them, condemned.
I see that White Rabbit coming now and I can’t wait to ruin his day by telling him about the time change.
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