Mary Matalin on 'Today' again invokes 9/11 while defending *'s Iraq policy

[sabra]

http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=991dbbcf-c89e-4eb7-8d1d-37c7fccc675c&f=email



* paraphrased
(around 5:30 into the clip)

Matalin: "Listen the cost of action is high. We've lost 2000 in three years of our best and our brightest, that have gone over there to secure our freedom. The cost of inaction is even greater. We've lost in 3 hours, 3000 Americans, innocent Americans. So there is a cost of inaction, and we should have that debate."

[Ezlivin]

1. I *almost* hope for another terrorist attack

Just so these assclowns will drop the 9/11 mantra.

Did the government after Pearl Harbor inject that into every single speech for years afterward?

[sabra]

4. there have been many across the world

- London 7/7
- Jordan 11/9

as some of the most recent... If you look at history, these attacks are spread out in time. Remember the attack of the WTC in 93? Sadly I think we will see another one with in the next 5 years. And after Katrina, the country knows we are in deep shit.

[Ezlivin]

11. I've wondered about the significance of 9/11

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5493778&mesg_id=5493778

[Toots]

2. Whose inaction is she referring to?

We all know who was in charge in the months leading up to 9-11...

[Shadowen]

5. I was about to say...

"She's right. Bush's inaction and refusal to consider there might be an attack, or to follow up on bin Laden's family if Osama was really their prime suspect, or any number of other fuck-ups prove that inaction does lead to attacks."

[JHB]

8. Not Bush's. Bushco was VERY active on terrorism

They ACTIVELY cut the FBI's counterterrorism budget...

They ACTIVELY lowered the priority and status of interdepartmental counterterroism meetings...

They ACTIVELY ordered submarines off their station in the Indian Ocean, where they had been ready to fire cruise missiles at Osama bin Laden within minutes of verifiable intel on his location...

They ACTIVELY besmirched the "law enforcement" tactics used against the West Aftican Embassy bombers, despite those being our biggest gold mine of intelligence on al Queda and its people, motives, and operations...

In shore, they ACTIVELY lowered our preparedness and vigilance against possible terrorist attacks. No "inaction" there!

[seabeyond]

3. my 8 yr old. i dont like war. no war. but then we probably wouldnt

have the freedoms we do today. exact words. where....did the kid get those. too complicated of a subject for him to take on, so i left this one. but i ask you

how can repug say secure our freedom when since we have had bush he has consistantly taken freedoms away from us. i hate that line

[sabra]

7. my favorite line: "freedom isn't free"

wow, mind blowing. Remember we went to war, because of the threat of WMD. This freedom baloney came out of Rove's spin machine...

[sui generis]

10. exactly lady, so why are you paying with everyone else's life?

please feel free to pay for your freedom yourself.

[frylock]

17. freedom isn't free..

it costs around a billion per week.

[WI_DEM]

6. all this gang can think of to do is politicalize 9/11

they have no shame.

[sui generis]

9. I saw that. She is head prostitute for this administration

what else is there to say. She gives lip service and collects a check.

:hide:

I just don't understand how intelligent people can be so irrational and delusional. Maybe I need to reset my criteria for "intelligent".

[nomaco-10]

12. The original war whore.....

I saw her on a C-Span airing of a roast for Ben Bradley and Sally Quinn a few months back. She was beyond drunk and made a real ass of herself. You could tell she made everyone in the room very uncomfortable.
Carvelle at her side of course looking like a whipped, love struck puppy.

[madrchsod]

13. GOD DAMMIT BITCH

we didn`t lose 3000 AMERICANS the world lost 3000 citizens. i`m so fuck`n sick and tired of assholes like her not metioning the citizens of other countries that were killed. it was the world`s center of commerce and that is why they took the buildings down. so mary-SHUT THE FUCK UP...i feel better now..

[Yoda Yada]

14. Now?..."we SHOULD have a debate."

We "should have" had a debate BEFORE we went into Iraq.

Let's talk about the REPUBLICANS who are themselves guilty of "revising history". (which is one of their favorite tactics.)

If you remember....Bush could NOT WAIT for debate. The (faulty) intelligence implied that America was in danger of an immediate attack if Bush did not take action (scare tactic) and go to war immediately. They KNEW that if they could only get Americans INTO Iraq, the American people would support them. Bush would not ALLOW debate. If a senator or representative tried to discuss the issue, they were called un-patriotic or un-American. If they ALLOWED debate to take place, there would be a chance we would NOT go in...so the administration (which included Mary Matalin) resorted to name-calling and bullying. This is so classic for the Bush regime.

Now, when I hear Matalin speak, I can only hope that someone will ask her why the Republicans need to resort to historical revisionism. Americans were BULLIED and NAME-CALLED into going along with Bush's plan because, supposedly, he had MORE information than they did. As it turns out....he didn't...so he lied. Ask Matalin to talk about that.

This administration is a disgrace to our country.

[spanone]

15. I heard an asshole congressman from Ind. say we invaded Iraq--911

And the reporter on NPR didn't fucking challenge him. Truth is no longer a factor in American politics.

[npincus]

16. does her upper lip ever move?

is her head a big, plastic holiday ornament?

[ComerPerro]

18. So, she's saying that the Iraq war has saved over 16.000.000 lives!

Because apparently the cost of not being in Iraq, according to her, is 1000 lives an hour...