Bushies prefer to attack opposition rather than Al Qaeda

It's much easier and, besides, they hate us more.

The Progress Report - American Progress Action Fund:

Over the last several weeks, President Bush and his allies have launched a new offensive against political dissent. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) wondered aloud if critics of the President's national security policy are 'more interested in the rights of terrorists than protecting the American people.' (White House Press Secretary Tony Snow defended Boehner, telling CNN he was 'asking tough questions.') Earlier, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld compared critics of his policies to people, in the decades before World War II, who believed Hitler 'could be appeased' and 'argued that the fascist threat was exaggerated -- or that it was someone else's problem.' (A poll yesterday found that more than 60 percent of Americans think this kind of comparison is inappropriate.) The rhetorical fireworks are intended to obscure severe problems in our national security posture, in particular military readiness. But attacking political opponents is far easier than addressing the fact that 'strategic miscalculations and gross mismanagement of resources have pushed the all-volunteer force perilously close to its breaking point.'