Last night Rudolph Guiliani took the stand at the GOP convention and he was humourous and confident on stage. He was also really, really scary. This guy makes Bush look like a cream puff. The tact he uses as rationale for re-electing Bush is that "in order to keep the pressure on al-Qaeda" we should stick with Bush. This isn't a new strategy for re-electing war presidents but I couldn't help but think as Guiliani said "Thank God George Bush is President" I thought, "Thank God the Republicans have al-Qaeda to use as a dart board" otherwise they'd have nothing to talk about. I contend that 9-11 was the best thing to ever happen to Bush and indeed the entire GOP, otherwise we'd have Kerry as a shoe-in for President and the Republican convention speakers would have nothing to say. Here's a test: how much substance, other than fighting terrorism will come out of the convention? My guess: 2%.
While on the subject, let's just recap what the GOP has done about terrorism: jack squat! Pakistan, England, France and Spain have all done more than us to actually capture terrorists. We just used it as an excuse to get rid of some foreigners, occupy a couple countries and take away some civil liberties.
George Bush said yesterday that you can't win the war on terror. He'll eat those words today because the Democrats have attacked him on it but he actually told the truth, you can't win. All of this furor is over a dozen dudes who took some flight training and had box cutters. Could it happen again? Of course. Could something even more diabolically creative happen? Yes! There isn't a damn thing any president can do about it. What they should do is forget about it, focus on making life better and stop spending money fighting Iraqis.
Guiliani actually said last night that Saddam was the "weapon of mass destruction" -what an ass.
