Bush says U.S. safer, but not yet safe

I would say the headline really shows the contradictory nature of the Bush White House. This is from Yahoo News:

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday that the foiled plot in Britain to blow up jetliners over the Atlantic is evidence the U.S. could be fighting terrorists for years to come.

"America is safer than it has been, yet it is not yet safe," Bush told reporters at the National Counterterrorism Center just outside Washington. "The enemy has got an advantage when it comes to attacking our homeland: they got to be right one time and we got to be right 100 percent of the time to protect the American people."

Yes, it is another fear and terror message to the American people--brought to you by the Republican Party! Because the Republican Party is in charge of all three branches of government, the Republicans have made America safer from terrorism. But we're not safe yet--there's still a lot of evil, anti-war, terrorist-loving, liberal Democrats who would like to make America less safe and surrender to the terrorists. That is the message Bush is trying to project to the American people--vote Republican to keep America safe.

But that's just the first part of the message. Now for the next part:

Bush credited American counterterrorism workers with helping to bring about last week's arrests of more than two dozen people in England and Pakistan in what officials say was a plot to blow up as many as 10 passenger planes between Britain and the United States.

"That plot and this building and the work going on here is really indicative of the challenge we face — not only this week, but this year and the years to come."

Yes, the Great War on Terror is going to take years of fighting. That means more billions handed out in no-bid defense contracts to Haliburton, more restrictions and removals of personal freedoms and liberties from American citizens, more illegal domestic spying by the government on American citizens. And with the budget deficit going out of control, we've got to curb government spending on domestic programs--can't cut the military because we're fighting the Great War on Terrorism (GWOT). Can't raise taxes--that will destroy the economy, and harm the wealthy elites. And finally, President Bush gives credit to American counter-terrorism officials for foiling this British airline plot--even though the Americans had nothing to do with this operation. President Bush still claims this is an American victory, a Bush victory on the GWOT, and an example of the Republican Party's "strong on terror" argument, while claiming the Democrats will surrender to the terrorists. That is the Bush administration's strategy for maintaining Republican control of Congress in 2006, and it will be the strategy for the 2008 presidential elections.

The sad thing is that America is not any more safer from terrorist attacks under a government controlled by the Republican Party, than they were before 9/11. In fact, we're probably less safer now than we were. The Bush administration was responsible for invading Iraq (using the PNAC plan of projecting American military power in the Middle East). Because of the disastrous war and American occupation, Iraq has fractured apart into ethnic and religious factions that are engaging in a civil war, in Iraq, for power. In addition, Iraq has become a haven for terrorist activity against American troops. Does anyone remember the Dubai Ports deal, where the Bush administration was willing to hand over control of America's port operations to a DP World--a United Arab Emirates company? Or the uproar between the Bush administration and Congress that followed, once the deal was disclosed to the American public?

To put it simply, the Bush administration, or the Republican Party, really doesn't care about the safety of America from international terrorism. The Bush White House is more interested in currying favors from their wealthy elites, corporate interests, or neocon think-tanks that push their own brand of extremist ideology. In the Bush administration, politics trumps policy--always! We're just seeing another example of this in their promoting terror fears against the American public for political gain.