Andrew McCarthy a former US Prosecutor of Terrorism doesn’t appear to be thrilled with this statement by Tony Snow. Gee why not after all Tony is banking on something that is pretty certain to be true.
Andrew C. McCarthy on War on National Review Online Snow responded with an extraordinary statement of his own: “Why would it be our war? I mean, it’s not on our territory. This is a war in which the United States — it’s not even a war. What you have are hostilities, at this point, between Israel and Hezbollah. I would not characterize it as a war.”
Tony and dare I say it President Bush are banking these items, no one remembers the numbers of Americans those monsters in Hezballah have murdered. No one remembers the threats those monsters have made towards America, no one remembers that Hezballah is a sock puppet for Iran but most importantly Tony and the President are counting on no one remembering these words by a President whose back was straight shortly after 9/11, quoted from the State of the Union 2002. Back when we actually wanted to win this war.
Our second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction. Some of these regimes have been pretty quiet since September the 11th. But we know their true nature. North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.
Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people’s hope for freedom. (further on)
States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil , arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic
Just in case anyone would like a partial list of atrocities these monsters have committed against us here is a handy dandy list for the next time you see Tony Snow. From an earlier post ranting and raving why this is our war…not our war Tony Snow should be ashamed.
- A series of kidnappings of Westerners in Lebanon, including several Americans, in the 1980s;
- April 18, 1983 Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut A suicide bomber in a pickup truck loaded with explosives rammed into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Sixty-three people were killed, including 17 Americans, eight of whom were employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, including chief Middle East analyst Robert C. Ames and station chief Kenneth Haas.
- Oct. 23, 1983 Bombing of Marine barracks in Beirut A suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives at a U.S. Marine barracks located at Beirut International Airport; 241 U.S. Marines were killed and more than 100 others wounded.
- Dec. 12, 1983 Bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait The American embassy in Kuwait was bombed in a series of attacks whose targets also included the French embassy, the control tower at the airport, the country’s main oil refinery, and a residential area for employees of the American corporation Raytheon. Six people were killed, including a suicide truck bomber, and more than 80 others were injured. The suspects were thought to be members of Al Dawa, or “The Call,” an Iranian-backed group and one of the principal Shiite groups operating against Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
- March 16, 1984 CIA Station Chief William Buckley kidnapped Buckley was the fourth person to be kidnapped by militant Islamic extremists in Lebanon…– some, including Buckley, died in captivity or were killed by their kidnappers. U.S. officials believed that the Iranian-backed Hezbollah was behind most of the kidnappings (It is reported that Mugniyah personally tortured and killed Buckley)
- Sept. 20, 1984 Bombing of U.S. Embassy annex northeast of Beirut In Aukar, northeast of Beirut, a truck bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy annex killing 24 people, two of whom were U.S. military personnel. According to the U.S. State Department’s 1999 report on terrorist organizations, elements of Hezbollah are “known or suspected to have been involved” in the bombing.
- Dec. 3, 1984 Hijacking of Kuwait Airways Flight 221 Kuwait Airways Flight 221, on its way from Kuwait to Pakistan, was hijacked and diverted to Tehran. The hijackers demanded the release of the Kuwait 17. When the demand wasn’t met, the hijackers killed two American officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development. On the sixth day of the drama, Iranian security forces stormed the plane and released the remaining hostages.
- June 14, 1985 Hijacking of TWA Flight 847 TWA Flight 847 was hijacked en route from Athens to Rome and forced to land in Beirut, Lebanon, where the hijackers held the plane for 17 days. They demanded the release of the Kuwait 17 as well as the release of 700 fellow Shiite Muslim prisoners held in Israeli prisons and in prisons in southern Lebanon run by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army. When these demands weren’t met, hostage Robert Dean Stethem, a U.S. Navy diver, was shot and his body dumped on the airport tarmac. U.S. sources implicated Hezbollah.
Let’s just wait Tony, wait until we get a better look at what they have in store for us before we declare it our war. After all when they say stuff like this they are not serious:
“Hezbollah’s leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, We consider [the United States] to be an enemy because it wants to humiliate our governments, our regimes, and our peoples. Because it is the greatest plunderer of our treasures, our oil, and our resources…. This American administration is our enemy. Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is: ‘Death to America!’” (Hat tip Andrew McCarthy )
Course another Hezballah leader was even more blunt:
We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you. Hussein Massawi, a former Hezbollah leader.
Gee Tony he seems sort of angry with us. Not our war…you putz. What you mean is not enough US civilians and soldiers have died yet for the Washington political class to do anything about it.
Maybe if we are lucky the next hit will be just hard enough to unstuff a lot of heads from a lot of asses. Apparently we need another wake up call before we start fighting again. Apparently the political class in Washington DC needs a bunch more US citizens to die before they get away from their desire to be popular in international circles. Those international cocktail parties are such fun…and this isn’t our war. Yet.
Here is part two.
Austin Bay with more thoughts about these times
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