Be Afraid - Be Very Afraid

President Bush greets arrives for a Labor Day observance at a maritime training institute in Piney Point, Maryland, September 4, 2006.

"Now, remember kids; there's a terrorist out there, and he wants to get you. And, as soon as we find him, I'll let you out ... and don't worry ... soon, you'll be old enough to go overseas and fight those evil folks, 'cause this thing will go on for years."

Seriously, can anyone tell me why the kids have to be held behind a barrier?
Or, maybe they wanted to be behind the barrier.

WASHINGTON - Quoting repeatedly from Osama bin Laden, President Bush said Tuesday that pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq would fulfill the terrorist leader's wishes and propel him into a more powerful global threat in the mold of Adolf Hitler.

That's pretty good. He managed to invoke two horrible names into one speech (or three, if you include his). It proves that he's improving as a communicator - economy of words and all. Now, if he can only get us to believe him...
Keep those kids back behind the barrier.

Bush argued Tuesday that history will look favorably on his currently unpopular war strategy. "History teaches that underestimating the words of evil and ambitious men is a terrible mistake," the president said. "Bin Laden and his terrorist allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them. The question is: Will we listen? Will we pay attention to what these evil men say?"

The answer is: Evil and ambitious is in the eye of the beholder.

And, in a feeble example of "too little too late", failed Democrat John Kerry said, "If President Bush had unleashed the American military to do the job at Tora Bora four years ago and killed Osama bin Laden, he wouldn't have to quote this barbarian's words today."
With the critical November "mid-term" elections a few months away (witness the beginnings of the TV ad barrage) the president has unleashed the old terrorism defense, in an attempt to make us believe that no one but the Republicans can protect us against the deadly menace, even though there was a Republican in the White House on September 11, 2001 - but I digress.

I thought I saw one of those kids move ... hit him with a taser.

So, be prepared to be scared witless from now until the first Tuesday in November. They are still playing the fear card, and as long as they think it's working, they'll keep playing it.

The White House on Tuesday published a 23-page booklet called "National Strategy for Combating Terrorism," which Bush described as an unclassified version of the strategy he's been pursuing since Sept. 11, 2001. The booklet's conclusion: "Since the Sept. 11 attacks, America is safer, but we are not yet safe."

We won't be safe until those kids are off the streets.

As for me, I'm scared.
I'm scared that it might work on idiot America.