Howard Dean blames Bush for terrorists' March 11 attack on Spain using reasoning that would blame 9-11 on U.N. for supporting 1991 Gulf War.

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Howard Dean blames Bush for terrorists' March 11 attack on Spain using reasoning that would blame 9-11 on U.N. for supporting 1991 Gulf War.·

Howard Dean, speaking in a conference arranged by John Kerry's campaign, said George Bush deserves blame for the March 11 terrorist bombing in Madrid, Spain, that killed 201 Spaniards and severely injured more than 1,500. Dean's "logic" in doing so would blame the United States, the United Nations, and every country and political leader who supported the 1991 Persian Gulf War for the 9-11 attack on us because successful conduct of that War required deployment of American military forces and bases inside Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Middle East, which is the main reason stated by Usama Bin Laden for launching the 9-11 attack on America. Dean's logic is patently that of an appeaser, but his own logic today about Spain would also cast moral "blame" on himself for 9-11 since he ardently says he unequivocally supported the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Thus, Dean's ascribing a degree of moral "blame" to Bush for terrorists' slaughter of 201 Spaniards on March 11 is either hopelessly naive or politically and morally malicious. Clue: It's the latter.

John Kerry, claiming to be ascending to the moral high ground of political campaigning and disdaining "malicious" political ads, declined to repudiate Dean's assertion. (Fox News reported that Kerry merely said Dean's position "is not our position"-- how courageous.) Likewise, Kerry has consistently refused to repudiate Ted Kennedy's claim that Bush launched Operation Iraqi Freedom for base political purposes and to enable his financial supporters to make profits as a result of such war. So much for Kerry's transparently hypocritical claim of seeking the moral "high ground" in his campaign. I can find little sincerity in anything Kerry says other than his sincerity in desiring to defeat George Bush.

Dean's logic in casting moral "blame" on Bush, and Kerry's refusal to repudiate such malicious nonsense, is a patent manifestation of one of the most enduring and persistent flaws in Left Wing Liberalism-- i.e., it never seems content to blame perpetrators of evil deeds without trying to find a way to also cast blame for such deeds on their political opponents. Enough, already!

Perhaps the rankest of all hypocrisy is that exemplified by Ted Kennedy's morally offensive claims ascribing base, immoral-- indeed criminal-- motives to Bush in launching Operation Iraqi Freedom. Kennedy never even had the courage to concede his real criminality manifested in his drunk-driving manslaughter of Mary Jo Kopeckne. Had the same standards been applied to him as were recently applied to Republican Congressman Janklow, who is now in jail for criminal manslaughter of a motorcycle rider as a result of Janklow's gross negligence in driving, Kennedy would have (and should have) gone to jail, after which it is unlikely he would have ever recovered politically (but who knows, maybe the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts would have nevertheless insisted on returning him to "public service" and lionized him as a great political leader). It's just hard to take Kennedy's pompous moral posturing unjustifiably impugning the moral character of opponents to serve the patently transparent political motivations by one who has made a career of exhibiting moral irresponsibility and getting away with it.

When Kennedy accuses Bush of starting a war to serve the financial interests of his friends, and when Dean suggests Bush deserves "blame" for the murders of Spaniards by terrorists, Kerry doesn't see fit to condemn such offensive accusations. Yet, when anyone bothers to publicly condemn such offensive accusations, Kerry unfairly and groundlessly attributes such responses to the "Bush attack machine." I admire, and appreciate, Kerry's heroism in Vietnam, where, I assume, he did not "fire back" blindly and indiscriminately in the same indiscriminate manner in which he "fires back" politically and then assumes the posture of "victim."

I tire of those who scream the loudest about "negative" political campaigning almost immediately after launching morally offensive and baseless charges ascribing to their opponents the basest, most morally corrupt motives one could imagine. When Kerry appeared to accept some personal blame for the tone of the campaign in saying "George Bush and I can do better" (emphasis added by me), I gave him credit for doing so. He can't have it both ways. If he wants to claim the moral high ground, he can't stay in the gutter with Dean and Kennedy.

The Doctor of Blame by Logic Untamed.·

I'm Howard, the Doctor of Blame,
whose specialty, Casting of Blame,
equips me to name
the leaders to blame
when countries get side-effect pains.

The blame for the Spaniards who died
from bombs March Eleventh should lie
on Dubya in part
for war he did start
without Jacques Chirac on our side.

But please don't compare March Eleventh
with blame for September Eleventh.
I'd rather ignore
that 91's war
is why Qaeda launched Nine-Eleven.

If so, as the Doctor of Blame,
my logic would force me to blame
U.N. resolutions
for warfare solutions
removing Saddam from Kuwait.

So therefore, I'd rather ignore
that thousands of deaths on our shores
were caused by Usama
intending such trauma
as starting to even the score.

So please don't demand I explain
the reasons my failure to blame
the U.N. et al
for Nine-One-One's palls
don't bar blaming Dubya for Spain.

Anyone who hasn't been living under a rock knows that Usama bin Laden has expressly described al Qaeda's primary motivation for the Nine-Eleven attack was as revenge for our having deployed our military and bases in Saudia Arabia and the middle east to remove Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. To "blame" the 9-11 attack on the U.S., the U.N., and the huge coalition that approved and/or authorized and/or participated in the 1991 Persian Gulf War rather than solely on the fanatics who committed the attack would be as specious as Howard Dean's statement that Bush deserves part of the "blame" for the March 11 attack in Madrid.

Here's my question to Kerry (and Dean): If not having explicit U.N. approval for Operation Iraqi Freedom is the "cause" of the slaughter of innocent Spaniards by fanatical Islamic terrorists, then why didn't the U.N.'s explicit approval of, and the virtual world-wide support for, the 1991 Persian Gulf War "protect" us from 9-11? The answer, Mr. Kerry and Dr. Dean, since neither of you seems to have figured it out, is that in both instances, no one other than fanatical, murdering terrorists is to "blame" for their barbaric acts. Anyone not a devotee of Left Wing Liberalism already understands that.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com

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