...it’s more the epicenter of terrorism than Iraq. If we don’t succeed in Afghanistan, you’re sending a very clear message to the terrorist organizations that the U.S., the U.N. and the 37 countries with troops on the ground can be defeated.-Gen. James L. Jones, retired NATO supreme commander, in a superbly written piece from today's New York Times, on how the Bush administration has dropped the ball in Afghanistan.
The incompetence of Mr. Bush and his minions is criminal. Imagine for a minute how a Republican congress would have acted if Al Gore had taken his eye off the ball in Afghanistan following 9/11, moved troops and vital resources into another country - one that had nothing to do with those terrorist attacks - and then proceeded to drive the whole anti-terrorism effort off a cliff with presidential incompetence. Imagine for a minute how (again, if Al Gore were president) a Republican congress would be frothing at the mouth over the fact that the man responsible for the 9/11 attacks and his group of global thugs were roaming free in the mountains of the Afghan-Pakastani boarder six years after an attack on American soil killed 3,000 innocent U.S. civilians.
A Republican congress would have impeached a "President Gore" over such deeds before he could finish his first term, and more than likely would have had him charged criminally. Yet George W. Bush, in the last years of his second term, continues to get a free pass from the new Democratic congress.
Come on, people! Get your heads out of your asses and impeach this son of a bitch and his evil vice-president before it's too late. Can American really afford 18 more months of these guys?
