Super-dee-duper deep thoughts with Babs

Here's a sample of the latest pronouncement from the First Lady of political theory:

"BUSH INVADED IRAQ WITH THE RATIONALE OF IMAGINARY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND IGNORED THE REAL THREAT IN AFGHANNISTAN [sic]. NOW WE HAVE A TERRORIST BREEDING GROUND IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND OSAMA BIN LADEN AND ABU MUSSAB AL-ZARQAWI, A RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORIST, RUNNING FREE."

I don't have the energy involved in thoroughly vetting Babs today but let's have a little fun with her nevertheless.

"Bush Invaded Iraq with the rationale of imaginary weapons of mass destruction"

"The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation." (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 10/9/02, p. S10171)

Ouch, that's gotta hurt, eh Babsie? Let's move on shall we?

"(Bush) ignored the real threat in Afhganistan"

Hmmm...really? Let's see now.

(Taken from the Washington Times) Calling the Afghan campaign a failure is puzzling because, by every meaningful measure, it was a resounding success. A combined force of anti-Taliban Afghans, U.S. special operations forces, carrier- and land-based U.S. airpower, and more conventional Army and Marine units quickly liberated Afghanistan. On Oct. 7, 2001 when U.S. air strikes began, the Taliban and its ally al-Qaida controlled 90 percent of Afghanistan.
Two months later, they had been driven out of every major city and were fleeing for the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, relentlessly pursued by U.S. airpower, U.S. Marines, and U.S.-assisted mujahedin.

Most of the credit rightly belongs to the men and women of the U.S. armed forces and the brave Afghan fighters who took the fight to the Taliban and al-Qaida. A good measure of it, however, belongs to Bush. The initial plan for the Afghan campaign called for a months-long build-up of a force of three Army divisions and then a conventional offensive in the spring of 2002. Determined to take immediate action, the president demanded a different course of action. The result was a campaign that produced a swift and decisive victory and refuted predictions of a quagmire in Afghanistan.

Oh, and let's not forget the recent free elections just held in Afghanistan wherein millions of Afghanis, including women, voted for the first time in their lives.

But you just keep saying that Bush ignored Afghanistan, Babsie. I'm sure your hollywood elitist friends will eat that up as you all eat up your beluga caviar. But, here's a tip, don't try that line on the Afghani woman who just stood in line for 2 hours in the snow to pull a lever and at last exercise the freedom she's always longed for.

"Now we have a terrorist breeding ground in the middle east and Osama Bin Laden and Abu Massab Al Zarqawi, a radical Islamic terrorist, running free."

Wait a minute there, Babs. Are you telling me that the middle east is a breeding ground for terrorism?? What! When did this happen?

Bin Laden, that guy who hasn't been seen in 2 years and is most likely dead, and if not, is hiding in a hole so small that it makes Saddam's rabbit hole look like the Taj Mahal? If that's free, sister, then you can keep your freedom. I'll just continue living here amid the gestapo-like infringements upon my autonomy from Big John Ashcroft and the fascist tenets of the Patriot Act.

As for Zarqawi, see above. One thing, though. Don't you just love the way Babs tosses in that Zarqawi is a "radical Islamic terrorist"? As though she just learned the term. I can almost see her practicing that one in the mirror -- "radical Islamo -- no wait-- radical Islamist -- no wait -- radical Islamic -- terrorist."

Babs, if you're looking for a definition of the term, don't bother flipping through Webster's. You won't find it there. Instead, take a trip down to Ground Zero and view the empty space where two large buildings used to stand. Whisper "radical Islamic terrorist" there and then listen for the haunting sound of 3,000 voices whisper back..."never forget".

I still wish I could forget Yentl.