I'm really trying to not write about politics, but I can't keep my mouth shut because I just heard the lie repeated once more.
Many conservatives of the type that are apologists for the current administration (including people like Glen Beck, who really should go back to drinking, IMHO, and those saying the current economic crisis is "Clinton's Fault" - seven years and you can't come up with something better?) like to say, basically, "sure, we've done some bad stuff, but we haven't been attacked on US soil in over seven years, so we must be doing what is right." (which this was an adjustment to "not having been attacked in seven years" because of what has happened in Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention AQ attacks in Europe and Africa).
I could argue that on so many levels, but it's no longer true. Al Qaeda attacked our Yemeni Embassy this morning. They made it on to the embassy grounds (unlike their mortar attack three months ago which hit a school next to the embassy). Embassy grounds are considered the sovereign ground of the country that occupies it. That is, the ground within the walls of our Yemen Embassy are US Soil. Al Qaeda made it there and attacked us.
So that makes that statement that "we haven't has an attack on US soil in seven years" a lie. Of course they'll start spinning this to "no attacks on the continental US" by the next news cycle. Keep redrawing the line like this and I'm going to start making Khadaffi=Bush jokes.
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