In the past two elections the republican party has duped the majority of the electorate that they are the party of national security.  The common claim is that America has not been attacked since 9/11 and that the Bush administration in responsible for keeping us safe up until this point.  My rejoinder is that we were not attacked for several decades before 9/11 either but we were still attacked on 9/11.  The point being that the Bush administration has not foreclosed the threat of a future attack by taking out Bin Laden and al-Qaeda either.  This is despite its claim that “..terrorism will not stand..” and spending the country into 9.6 trillion dollars in debt. 

It was democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama that supported the initiative that resulted  in the killing of a top al-Qaeda leader Abu Laith al-Libi.  Sen. John McCain publicly and verbally opposed  the CIA initiative that made this happen.  As a matter of fact, McCain attacked Obama as naive for “wanting to bomb an ally.” The CIA initiative proposed not informing Pakistani Intelligence or tribal authorities of future strikes of al-Qaeda because both had warned off targets in the past.  The next day, the CIA took out the third in command to al-Qaeda with just such a raid. If the Bush administration would have followed McCain’s simplistic and weak foreign policy advice of continuing to coddle Pakistani’s corrupt dictator Pervez Musharref we would have missed an important opportunity. 

Remember, McCain is the one that says he knows how to “win wars” and will ”follow Bin Laden to the gates of hell ” because he knows how to do it my friends, he knows how to do it.  McCain also claims that he  “knows how to find Bin Laden.”  Okay, so if McCain knows how to find Osama Bin Laden, why hasn’t he told the Bush administration?  Is this a secret that McCain will release only if we elect him President?  Isn’t that some sort of bribe…elect me and I’ll tell you how, otherwise forget about it.  McCain has been in the Senate for seven years following the 9/11 and we still have not found Bin Laden, why on earth would he not share this master plan with the rest of the Senate or better yet with Bush and Cheney?  Sounds more like me first than “Country First.”