The right-wing meme about Iraq and Bush has always been “we haven’t been attacked since 9/11”. When you try to use the same for Clinton, saying before 9/11, we weren’t attacked since the first WTC bombing, they quickly point to bombings of our embassies and of the Cole.
A few months ago, we saw our our embassy in Syria attacked, an attack that was a lot less worse because of that horrible nation of Syria fighting off the attack. We have also heard of our troops getting attacked in Iraq by terrorists, and had a military base attacked in Baghdad, producing a night full of explosions. Of course the right doesn’t consider these attacks against the U.S. since Bush is President (if Clinton was President, it would be a different story though).
Now these same wingnuts will quickly try to spin this latest attack and say we still haven’t been attacked since 9/11:
Suspected leftist guerrillas fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the U.S. embassy in Athens on Friday in the boldest attack staged by leftwing militants in years.
The blast shattered windows and woke up nearby residents in the central Athens area at 5:58 AM (0358 GMT) but no one was hurt, police said.
The grenade was launched just across the street from the heavily guarded embassy building, which is surrounded by a 3-metre-high (9-feet-high) steel fence, and authorities were dealing with the attack as a serious act of violence.
The sure sounds like a terrorist attack to me. I know it isn’t al Qaeda, but still – it was a terrorist attack. It is also the product of our failed national policy. Our country is becoming more isolated in the world and this is they by-product of that. Bush has set us on a dangerous course with, well everyone.
Of course we have had other terrorist attacks since 9/11 that the right and Bush seems to ignore. Just ask Tom Daschle’s staff about that one, and ask why the FBI has been dragging their feet on it.