RICHARD CLARK: "Put Bush's 'puppy dog' terror theory to sleep"

"Put Bush's 'puppy dog' terror theory to sleep

By RICHARD CLARKE

Wednesday, April 25th 2007, 4:00 AM


Does the President think terrorists are puppy dogs? He keeps saying that terrorists will "follow us home" like lost dogs. This will only happen, however, he says, if we "lose" in Iraq.

The puppy dog theory is the corollary to earlier sloganeering that proved the President had never studied logic: "We are fighting terrorists in Iraq so that we will not have to face them and fight them in the streets of our own cities."

Remarkably, in his attempt to embrace the failed Iraqi adventure even more than the President, Sen. John McCain is now parroting the line. "We lose this war and come home, they'll follow us home," he says.

How is this odd terrorist puppy dog behavior supposed to work? The President must believe that terrorists are playing by some odd rules of chivalry. Would this be the "only one slaughter ground at a time" rule of terrorism?..."

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/04/25/2007-04-25_put_bushs_puppy_dog_terror_theory_to_sle.html

They'd be attacking us "over here" while we are defenseless because all of our troops are "over there".

Apply any sort of logic at all to this and you will no doubt find the "terrorists" are about as dangerous as that big hairy monster who has lived under your bed since you were three.

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