Here is a case of Islamic militancy desiring to kill Americans, 11 years ago. Islamic terrorists were at war with us then, as they are now.A grim-faced U.S. President Bill Clinton said the explosion "appears to be the work of terrorists" and vowed to bring those responsible to justice. "The cowards who committed this murderous act must not go unpunished," he said. (150K AIFF or WAV sound)...
Tuesday's explosion occurred less than a month after the Saudis beheaded
four Muslim militants convicted of setting off a car bomb last November at a
U.S.-run military training facility, killing five Americans and two Indians.The men, all Saudi Arabians, were executed despite threats from underground
extremists to attack U.S. interests in the kingdom if the four were
punished.
The difference is in the response: We had a president denounce the act of terrorism, vow to catch and punish those responsible, without criticism. Saudi Arabians beheaded (!) militants, not stopping to listen to humanitarian concerns about 'extreme methods of torture,' without criticism. The U.S. would later attempt to deport a man found associated with the same bombing, to face trial in Saudi Arabia, without criticism.
When a bomb goes off in Iraq today, killing American forces, Democrats clamor for withdrawal.
It's purely politics. They hate Bush and want him to fail, even at the expense of our national security. If they were consistent, they would have demanded 11 years ago that we withdraw our military from Saudi Arabia because we provoked the attack and our own men died. (And this doesn't even begin to discuss deportation or closing our borders to middle easterners -who are associated with terrorists and want to kill us on our home soil - because that would be politically incorrect.)
My, how times have changed.
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