{"id":6839,"date":"2009-01-23T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T19:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6839"},"modified":"2009-01-24T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T22:44:08","slug":"anthrax-is-delicious-or-bush-kept-us-safe-unless-you-count-the-thousands-of-dead-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=6839","title":{"rendered":"Anthrax is Delicious! Or, Bush Kept Us Safe Unless You Count the Thousands of Dead Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>If I hear one more Bush Legacy con-artist<\/a> — or worse, supposed Progressives who brainlessly buy into the masterstroke of propaganda — state that “Bush kept us safe” or “There have been no terror attacks on American soil since 9\/11,” I think I may shoot someone, or poison them with anthrax — just to keep them safe<\/i>.<\/p>\n

To be clear, there were<\/i> deadly terror attacks — and on American soil!<\/i> — since 9\/11.<\/p>\n

5 people were killed<\/i> and 17 other were injured in the 2001 anthrax attacks<\/a> in what was the most deadly use of lethal bioterrorism on American soil in this nation’s history. Many of those multiple terror attacks included notes<\/a> intended to signal that they were attacks by supporters of Islamic jihadists.<\/p>\n

Additionally, in October 2002, for three weeks, D.C. and environs were ground to a panicked stand-still as sniper attacks<\/a> by a terrorist from the Nation of Islam went on for three weeks, killing 10 people and injuring 3 at 15 different sites throughout the Beltway.<\/p>\n

Both the Anthrax Attacks and the Beltway Sniper Attacks were terrorist attacks on Americans, on American soil, following 9\/11<\/i>.<\/p>\n

As to Bush having kept us safe beyond the 15 killed and 20 injured in the dozens of terror attacks on American soil since 9\/11 as mentioned above, to date 4,230 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq<\/a>. Additionally, 172 American civilian contractors were also killed<\/a> in the unnecessary, optional war on a country which had nothing to do with 9\/11. Moreover, tens of thousands<\/i> of U.S. troops were permanently injured in the conflict.<\/p>\n

The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq, under Bush’s optional deployment, far exceeds, by more than one thousand<\/i>, the number of American citizens killed on 9\/11.<\/p>\n

Counting only the dead (and only the American dead, in this case, since estimates of violent Iraqi civilian fatalities<\/a> during the war are currently estimated to be anywhere from a conservative 150,000 to more than 1,000,000) that totals 4,245 Americans killed by terrorists, or in optional conflicts with terrorists, since 9\/11.<\/p>\n

“Bush kept us safe”?<\/p>\n

Since<\/i> 9\/11, we could have had 14 different massive domestic terrorist bombings, in 14 different major U.S. cities, kill 300 Americans in each attack, and still<\/i> had fewer Americans killed by terrorists since 9\/11 than we have under the bold and courageous<\/i> leadership of George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

None of the above refers to the likely millions of individuals across the world now far more interested in bringing us harm than they were prior to 9\/11, but other than that, yeah, “Bush kept us safe”.<\/p>\n

Idiots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I hear one more Bush Legacy con-artist — or worse, supposed Progressives who brainlessly buy into the masterstroke of propaganda — state that “Bush kept us safe” or “There have been no terror attacks on American soil since 9\/11,” I think I may shoot someone, or poison them with anthrax — just to keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[383,405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthrax-case","category-bush-legacy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}