The leader of America’s second strongest ally, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, took on the Ken Livingstones of the world whose narrow view of history provided by a public education and reinforced by the MSM has them thinking that Islamo-terror-fascists (ITF) only started bombing Western targets after the war with Saddam’s Iraq:
“Can I just say very directly, Paul, on the issue of the policies of my government and indeed the policies of the British and American governments on Iraq, that the first point of reference is that once a country allows its foreign policy to be determined by terrorism, it's given the game away, to use the vernacular. And no Australian government that I lead will ever have policies determined by terrorism or terrorist threats, and no self-respecting government of any political stripe in Australia would allow that to happen.
“Can I remind you that the murder of 88 Australians in Bali took place before the operation in Iraq.
“And I remind you that the 11th of September occurred before the operation in Iraq.
“Can I also remind you that the very first occasion that bin Laden specifically referred to Australia was in the context of Australia's involvement in liberating the people of East Timor. Are people by implication suggesting we shouldn't have done that?
“When a group claimed responsibility on the website for the attacks on the 7th of July, they talked about British policy not just in Iraq, but in Afghanistan. Are people suggesting we shouldn't be in Afghanistan?
“When Sergio de Mello was murdered in Iraq -- a brave man, a distinguished international diplomat, a person immensely respected for his work in the United Nations -- when al Qaeda gloated about that, they referred specifically to the role that de Mello had carried out in East Timor because he was the United Nations administrator in East Timor.
“Now I don't know the mind of the terrorists. By definition, you can't put yourself in the mind of a successful suicide bomber. I can only look at objective facts, and the objective facts are as I've cited. The objective evidence is that Australia was a terrorist target long before the operation in Iraq. And indeed, all the evidence, as distinct from the suppositions, suggests to me that this is about hatred of a way of life, this is about the perverted use of principles of the great world religion that, at its root, preaches peace and cooperation. And I think we lose sight of the challenge we have if we allow ourselves to see these attacks in the context of particular circumstances rather than the abuse through a perverted ideology of people and their murder.”
Howard understands that we have been at war with these ITF for a long time and never really knew it. We started out by acting as if the war were a police problem. Then Osama got greedy and instead of killing 3,000 Americans over several years, which would have been acceptable given our past responses to ITF acts of war, he decided to kill 3,000 all in the same day. Well that awoke the sleeping giant and it has been hell ever since.
Osama’s strategic aim is to get the American people to tire of this war so that he may revert to status quo anti and just blow up a hundred or so people at time with no real public outcry. His will accomplices in the press and his political arm in the US known as the Democrat Party are working overtime to achieve his goal. In fact the only outcry about ITF seems to be the MSM’s and Lib’s concern of “why do they hate us” or “this is all Bush’s fault for getting rid of that tyrant Hussein.” Osama’s useful idiots attack Bush at every turn. If Bush puts the ITF in jail, the useful idiots whine about Abu Grhaib and Gitmo. If Bush has the military kill them on the battlefield, the useful idiots bring soldiers in for Courts Martial for killing the enemy (two Marines tried for killing the enemy) and ridicule the leadership (Marine Gen Mattis) for wanting to kill the enemy. It is insane.
Remember, according to Atta's father, if we're lucky, we're in a 50 year war. Let's not go wobbly in the first quarter.
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