And So it Comes Full Circle: “Obama Critics Aid Al Qaeda”

Yes you read that correctly.

It was only two years ago that this short club was used by Democrats flopping on the putting green of Bush bashing, a sport that seems to be modern liberals’ national pastime.

Celbrated author Richard Reeves summed this up best after the 9/11 attacks:

So, the attorney general of the United States tells me: “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists.”

Well, screw you, buddy! What are you trying to say? Are you saying that anyone who talks about civil rights, civil liberties and the freedom that makes us Americans is a traitor in this undeclared but loudly proclaimed war?

I have a message for you, Mr. Attorney General John Ashcroft, former Governor, former Senator and all-around political perpetual: (1) I am no traitor and neither is anyone else who questions sweeping expansion of government power to search people’s homes and minds

Reeves was a dissenter before dissension was cool. And he is also a little “off” in the certain areas that make writers so special.

Now it seems that the matra so hated by the left of “dissenting against the policy of those in power aids the enemy” is back!

This time it’s used by the man who rose to power based off of it. President Obama of all people.

ABC News:

In an oped in USA Today, John Brennan — Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism — responds to critics of the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policies by saying “Politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaeda.”

Brennan writes that, “Terrorists are not 100-feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.”

In the oped, titled “‘We need no lectures’: Administration disrupts terrorists’ plots, takes fight to them abroad,” Brennan writes that politics “should never get in the way of national security. But too many in Washington are now misrepresenting the facts to score political points, instead of coming together to keep us safe.”

The administration op-ed is in response to a USA Today editorial entitled “National security team fails to inspire confidence; Officials’ handling of Christmas Day attack looks like amateur hour.”

Brennan provides a detailed defense of the administration’s handling of failed Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab whom, he says, was “thoroughly interrogated and provided important information.”

He suggests that many critics are hypocritical and clueless.

The most important breakthrough in the interrogation occurred “after Abdulmutallab was read his rights, which the FBI made standard policy under Michael Mukasey, President Bush’s attorney general,” he writes, noting that failed shoe bomber Richard Reid “was read his Miranda rights five minutes after being taken off a plane he tried to blow up. The same people who criticize the president today were silent back then.”

Ah, very nice castle move. The famous “you are clueless on terror” and “we don’t need no stinking lectures” very much in the vein of intellectual superiority taught at all the finest debating schools peppered across the nation.

Right along with “eat it, cootie breath” and “suck on a lemon, douche nozzle.”

Let’s clear the air about Mike Allen’s report of “shoebomber” Richard Reid being read his rights five minutes after beign detained: it was wrong and Bush screwed that up.

Reid shouldn’t have been mirandized.

And foreigners taken on the field of battle should not be either.

And while we are at it:

Gitmo should stay open

TARP was a fraud

Terrorist trials should not be in New York or in a civilian court

the new Season of Lost sucks

Diet Dr. Pepper does NOT taste like regular Dr. Pepper

And Global Warming can not be argued to be man made, when all major supporting documents have been forged

Where was I?

This entire argument is flawed. So if your predecessor makes a grievous error it forgives your deliberate stupidity.

It would be like saying, “why are you upset that we rounded up all the Muslims and put them in cages… FDR did it. No one complained back then. And now Toyota is sucking.”

Mistakes have been made in Iraq. In fighting the War on Terror at home.  And in Afghanistan.

This doesn’t mean we repeat them and furthermore we don’t use those errors as a free pass on future ones.

The fact of the matter is that the Obama Administration did screw up the Christmas Bomber interrogation. Their insecurity is further proof that they do feel outside pressure that they are not up to task with handling terrorism. Why would you release the information you got from this guy to the public?

Especially when Director Leon Panetta of the CIA asked you over and over not to.

They did so because it was more important to prove critics wrong, than anything else. Including National Security.

Obama can do 180 degree pivots on almost every issue in time for 2010 election cycle. But he cannot hide from the fact his administration’s transparency of their own incompetence is the tell that we all can see.

And their poker face is no better.

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