Operation Enduring Terror

Responding to the Bush Administration's latest (pre-election) series of speeches on terrorism, see Looking to Elections, Bush and Democrats Spar on National Security, Keith Olbermann gave another Special Comment on his Countdown show, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” (video & transcript), directed at the Terrorist-In-Chief, George Bush. Olbermann said:

It is to our deep national shame—and ultimately it will be to the President’s deep personal regret—that he has followed his Secretary of Defense down the path of trying to tie those loyal Americans who disagree with his policies—or even question their effectiveness or execution—to the Nazis of the past, and the al Qaeda of the present.

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Whatever the true nature of al Qaeda and other international terrorist threats, to ceaselessly compare them to the Nazi State of Germany serves only to embolden them.

More over, Mr. Bush, you are accomplishing in part what Osama Bin Laden and others seek—a fearful American populace, easily manipulated, and willing to throw away any measure of restraint, any loyalty to our own ideals and freedoms, for the comforting illusion of safety.

It thus becomes necessary to remind the President that his administration’s recent Nazi “kick” is an awful and cynical thing.

And it becomes necessary to reach back into our history, for yet another quote, from yet another time and to ask it of Mr. Bush:

“Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

And the answer is?

(For Olbermann's previous Special Comment on Rumsfeld, see If it Quacks Like a Duck)

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