The ability of the left to revise history to suit themselves just staggers the mind. Let's all pretend that the attack on the Cole didn't happen, and that President Bush didn't land on its deck the next day and, after leading the early repair efforts and single-handedly saving Ensign Hoover, who had been trapped in the flooding engine room for the entire night and was near death, delivered his speech from the bridge with a malfunctioning bullhorn. "We can't hear you," the crew cried out, and he threw down the horn and bellowed, "That's all right! I can hear you!" And then the Apache formation came over horizon and we were ready right then, right then to take Yemen down for good. But no. The democrats were filibustering and authorization couldn't come through in time and it was a total recall. And now look what happens. You reap what you sow, asshats. You reap what you sow.

In typical fashion, Malkin shrieks about nefarious lefties and their awful words and actions without citing a single fkn example.

It's also nice how she says that a recidivist terrorist is a "quandary" for opponents of Gitmo but mentions in passing that it was the W administration that let the guys out. Yeah, what a quandary for the left.

Thank God people like you are around to save us from the terrible mainstream MSM media, Michelle.

Cagey B: chemical_angel: What comes after full retard?

Townhall.

I was gonna say Floor Humping

/hot

Malkin's too dense to realize that whack-a-mole as a strategy to combat terrorism has not been working. But neocon cheerleaders are totally OK with engaging in another war against poor brown people.

The enemy operates out of many countries, and some are even our allies (forget Pakistan, I mean like Germany and the UK). The failure here was with our intelligence infrastructure and processes. Not that we weren't bombing enough Yemenis. We are lacking a global approach to terrorism.

If Malkin hasn't grasped that after 8 years she never will.

Hmmm...hmmm. "What ho!" said da 'ting wid the tree bonce. Don't meddle wid 'tings you don' understand.

*burp*

Bodine's career was marked by controversy when details of an alleged conflict with the FBI investigation of the USS Cole bombing came to light. According to a number of sources, including the PBS Frontline documentary "The Man Who Knew" [1], Bodine's actions may have inhibited the FBI's investigation into the Cole attack. In particular, her conflict with FBI agent John P. O'Neill, wherein she denied his re-entry into Yemen to continue his command of the FBI investigation into the USS Cole bombing, is alleged to have slowed the investigation. Her actions potentially contributed to the intelligence failure that resulted in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The details of this conflict are documented in Lawrence Wright's book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 and Murray Weiss' The Man Who Warned America.

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American FBI agents sent to Yemen to investigate the bombing in the days following the blast worked in an extremely hostile environment. They were met at the airport by Yemen Special forces "each soldier pointing an AK-47 at the plane." Speakers in the Yemeni parliament "calling for jihad against America," were broadcast on local television each night. After some delay Yemenis produced a CCTV video from a harborside security camera, but with the crucial moment of the explosion deleted.[16] "There were so many perceived threats that the agents often slept in their clothes and with their weapons at their sides." At one point the hotel where the agents stayed "was surrounded with men in traditional dress, some in jeeps, all carrying guns." Finally the agents abandoned their hotel to stay at a Navy vessel in the Bay of Aden, but even that was not safe. After being granted "permission from the Yemeni government to fly back to shore," their helicopter "was painted by an SA-7 missile" and "had to take evasive maneuvers".[17]

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RockIsDead: In his usual inspiring/listless cycle, he once more appeared chilly in his response to the chilling episode on Flight 253, issuing bulletins through his press secretary and hitting the links. At least you have to seem concerned.
- Maureen Dowd

Jeez, even O's own girlfriends are turning.

Thank you once again for your reliably incisive and compelling thoughts on the matter.

/yawn

gallo caldo: Lionel Mandrake: In typical fashion, Malkin shrieks about nefarious lefties and their awful words and actions without citing a single fkn example.

Yes, that's annoying. I would point out that if you remove the ad hominem attacks on the left, her points are pretty solid. We need to work harder on stopping these d-bags. NPR was reporting that the undibomber was one of a couple dozen graduates of whatever school of hate he went to in Yemen. That makes me nervous. I'd like to know we're doing whatever we can to avoid any planes getting blown up.

Personally, I would favor jettisoning the Air Marshal program and replacing it with a Dutch filmmaker on every flight.

Well one of his fellow classmates was alrady arrested at an airport with an explosive rig very similar to the one the undiebomber had right down to the syringe fortunately the crack airport security folks in farking MAGADISHU spotted him and stopped him in time.


Think about that.

Somalia, which lacks a functioning government, and is in the middle of civil war and is beset by pirates, STILL managed to a better job of airport security than the Dutch authorities and the TSA combined.



and then there's this: This guy was highly educated and supposedly trained with Al-qaeda's top bomb maker, and STILL couldn't make an explosive device that did anything but threaten to roast his own weenie

Michelle Malkin. Michelle Bachmann. What's the difference? Retarded coonts, both of them.

So, 8 years later we're back to "Glass Parking Lot"? Because unless you want to build huge factories in the Middle East and give these people jobs or get them laid or something... That's pretty much the only option to close the revolving door.

You'd think after all this time people would learn about the fundamental problems of that region, but I guess that's too much to ask.