Tuesday, June 14, 2016
George W. Bush's vs Barack Obama's Success on Domestic Terrorism
FACT CHECK -- post-9/11 US domestic terror attacks. ~~~~~ During George W. Bush's presidency, the list publicly available is : (1). December 22, 2001 - Shoe Bomber Richard Reid failed to bomb AA Flight 63. (2). July 4, 2002 - Hesham Mohamed Hadayet killed 2 at El Al ticket counter in LA. (3). October 2002 - Beltway Snipers John Allen Muhammed and Boyd Lee Malvo killed 10; Malvo testified attacks motivated by "jihad." (4). March 3, 2005 - Mohammed Reza Taheri-azana drove SUV into a crowd on campus at UNC, Chapel Hill, injuring 9. (5). March 23, 2003 - Grenade attack by Army Sergeant Hasan Akbar on fellow members of 101st Airborne killed 2 and wounded 14. (6). July 28, 2006 - Naveed Haq killed 1 and injured 5 in a shooting at Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. (7). August 30, 2006 - Omeed Aziz Popal killed 1 and injured 17 in SUV in Fremont CA rampage that ended at Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. (8). December 22, 2006 - Derrick Shareef "violent jihad" attack on Illinois shopping mall stopped by feds. (9). February 12, 2007 - Sulejman Talović opened fire at Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5, injuring 4, while shouting "Allahu Akbar!" ~~~~~ The publicly available list of domestic terror attacks under President Obama is : (1). June 1, 2009 - Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad killed 2 Army privates at a military recruiting station in Little Rock. He reportedly converted to Islam in college and was on FBI radar after his arrest in Yemen for using a Somali passport, although he was a US citizen. He told Arkansas judge he was a member of al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula. (2). November 5, 2009 - Major Nidal Malik Hasan shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, military base, killed 13, injured 32, while he shouted "Allahu Akbar!" Hasan was in contact with al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki before the attack. After his death sentence, Hasan requested to join ISIS. Obama called the shooting "workplace violence." (3). April 15, 2013 - Tamerlan and Dhozkar Tsarnaev detonated two bombs at the Boston marathon, killing 3 and injuring 260. The brothers later killed an MIT police officer. They were self-radicalized through online jihadist propaganda and a mosque with ties to al-Qaeda. (4). September 24, 2014 - Alton Nolen beheaded a woman at a Moore, Oklahoma, Vaughan Foods plant and stabbed and injured another person. He appears to have been a radicalized Moslem obsessed with beheadings. (5). October 23, 2014 - Zale Thompson, a self-radicalized Moslem, injured 2 Queens, NYC, police officers with a hatchet before being shot dead by other officers. Lobe wolf Thompson was self-radicalized with ISIS, al-Qaeda and al-Shabab websites. (6). December 20, 2014 - Ismaayil Brinsley shot and murdered 2 Brooklyn police officers. His Facebook page featured jihadist postings and had ties to a terror-linked mosque. (7). May 3, 2015 - Two gunmen shot up the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, site of a Mohammed cartoon contest. They were killed by a police officer. ISIS claimed responsibility. (8). July 16, 2015 - Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez killed 5 at a military base in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is believed to have been inspired by ISIS. (9). December 14, 2015 - Two islamists, Syed Farook and wife Tashfeen Malik, murdered 14 people and injured 22 at an office holiday party in San Bernardino, California. (10). June 12, 2016 - Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS while killing 49 and injuring 53 at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. ~~~~~ Domestic deaths caused by jihadists under Bush was 21, with 49 injured. Domestic deaths caused by jihadists under Obama is 89, with 370 injured. ~~~~~ Dear readers, we can also compare the 7,654 worldwide terrorism deaths in 2008 under Bush to the all-time high 32,658 worldwide terrorism deaths under Obama in 2014 -- an increase of 426%, according to the latest report of ‘Vision of Humanity.’ President Obama's weakness as world leader and failure to even utter the words "radical islamic terrorism" emboldened the islamic jihadist movement and caused their evil expansion and growth. Tomorrow.
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With yet another attack by a genuine militant Islamist who's a registered Democrat, whose father hates America, and they might even vote Democrat; I don't know. If they were Republicans, the media would already have found that out. So, you have a genuine Islamist militant who exemplifies everything about Islam -- anti-gay, anti-women, anti-this, anti-that, anti-America -- and goes and does what he does.
ReplyDeleteAnd Obama finds it necessary to go on a rampage against Donald Trump. Her changes the subject again to match what he wants to have the news people cover – and it’s not his weak, and irresponsibility towards the Muslim Extremist that he is in bed with in some way, shape, or form.
The difference between Obama and George Bush is the difference between right & wrong, the Constitution & the Koran, the Rule of Law & Sharia Law, the difference between being a closet “Christian” and a behind closed doors Muslim.
He is what he is friends like it or not.
Today’s migrants are assorted anarchists, union activists, soccer hooligans, jihadists and Socialist politician’s loyalists. They are not migrants looking for an opportunity to better their lives and families lives. They don’t care about that.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing positive in their actions or their message. Just as there was with The (so called) Prophet Mohammad 800 plus years ago. If one is a “Muslims that practices the Islamic religion, then some time a day, or week , or month, or year you will be required to acknowledge the violence contained within the scriptures of the Koran.
So let’s stop sugar coating the lemon slices, because no matter how much sugar we apply the lemons are still bitter lemons.
The difference between George Bush approach to countering terrorism and the ‘photo-op’ approach of Barrack Obama is actual policy to stop terrorists attacks here, there and everywhere. It’s not by accident that there were NO attacks on U.S. soil after 9-11 under George Bush, but yet some 39 under one of their own believers Barrack Obama.
ReplyDeleteThe difference between these two men are not slight or masked that requires a lot of investigation. George Bush for all his unrestricted spending at the end of his second term was a believer in America. A patriot. A non-lawyer who was driven by the Rule of Law. A man who took action immediately following 9-11, not one who took to the Rose Garden for photos at every turn.
Obama is not one of us, never has been and never will be. Whereas George Bush come from a long line of honorable civil servants that answers the call to duty when it goes out. Agree or disagree with George Bush’s political views, his motive for doing was always in the best interests of American. Obama’s motives are with Obama first, last, and always.
An adaptation of the broken window theory applies here. That is, when insolence and immunity are permitted to gnaw away at the fabric of trust, it will eventually give rise to serious criminality.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Bush never superficially or internally revealed any such characteristics. His entire years became almost boring to some Washington D.C. waters and pundits.
But Barrack Obama has and does daily. And now it revealed that his entire administration has been malignant with lies, disrespect, and borderline treasonous activity every step of the way, Scandalous activity ranging from his signature legislation of Obamacare, to every aspect of presidential leadership.
Given enough time and tolerance the broken window theory was bound to apply. That is, when sabotage and societal chaos are permitted to fester, it will eventually give rise to serious criminality. And the treasonous activity of Obama and Hillary Clinton rise to that level.
In the early 1950’s and up to 9-11 the battle cry of republicans and democrats was they are “Soft on Communism.” Since 9-11 words have been replaced by action – direct military action as the yardstick of confronting terrorism.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Bush had a plan from his advisors ready to put into action early that evening. The plan was not foolproof, but none are. And whatever mistakes Bush made in the following years after 9-11 were errors of “admission” not “commission.” Bush said he was going to do something and set out to do it.
All the errors Obama should lay claim to have been ones of planned deception and disregard for the American people. Obama has drawn so many hypothetical lines in the sand in the Middle East that his shoes are so full of sand they don’t fit him any longer.
In presidential politics there are “doers”, there are “thinkers” and then there is President Jimmy Carter & Barrack Obama. But give the man a break – at least Jimmy Carter thought he was doing something positive in Iran and stuck to his ill failed plane. Obama has known what he was doing was wrong, wrong, wrong. If fact I think it has been near treason.
A critique of Obama would be that he has so often projected the image of Islam’s defense counsel instead of America’s commander-in-chief.
ReplyDeleteIn fairness (though Obama is rarely fair to those he differs with), it should be noted that George W. Bush was also took caution to shun the impression that the U.S. was at war with Islam. But here’s the difference: Bush never gave the impression that he wasn’t on America’s side, and Obama consistently does. Moreover, when Obama or members of his administration stubbornly refuse to acknowledge what everyone knows to be true, it makes people feel unsafe.
1. In 2009, Col. Nidal Hasan, marinated in the writings of Islamic extremists, jumped on a table, shouted “Allahu Akbar,” and opened fire on 45 soldiers, killing 13. Obama was unsure of his motive and cautioned Americans against “jumping to conclusions.” Until late 2015, the administration declined to call Fort Hood a terrorist attack, preferring the Newspeakish “workplace violence.”
2. When ISIS-linked terrorists decapitated their American captive James Foley and released the video on the internet, Obama went golfing. He later said he regretted this, but that couldn’t erase the signal of indifference.
3. After Islamic extremists in Paris attacked the Charlie Hebdo offices and a Jewish supermarket in January 2015, Obama spoke of vicious killers who “randomly shoot a bunch of folks at a deli in Paris.” But the attacks could not have been more pointed — a satirical magazine that had caricatured Muhammad and a Jewish store. Did Obama misspeak, or was he downplaying the Islamic extremist element? When 50 world leaders, including those of Great Britain, France, Germany, Israel and Russia marched in Paris to show solidarity against terrorism, Obama skipped the event and failed to send a high-ranking surrogate.
4. After Muslim terrorists turned the Brussels airport into an abattoir in March, Mr. Obama attended a baseball game in Cuba. Before the bodies had all been buried, he danced the tango in Argentina.
This pattern has recurred throughout his presidency — from the Boston marathon bombing, to the Paris attacks, to “clock boy,” to the San Bernardino shootings and now the Orlando attack, Obama has downplayed Islamist motivations and dismissed American fears. The Atlantic magazine reported that Obama frequently reminds his staff that Americans are more likely to die in their bathtubs than in terror attacks.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch expressed the administration’s view succinctly when, after San Bernardino, she confided that her “greatest fear” was of an anti-Muslim violent backlash in the United States. That has ever been the president’s chief worry as well.
By persistently refusing to make distinctions among Muslims based upon ideology and conduct — by insisting that Muslims are no more plagued by violent extremism than, say, Presbyterians — he has opened the door to Trump, who also makes no distinctions and justly so now.