Six years later, and asked countless times, the Bush crew still demures when asked to explain specifically what this mantra really means.
I think I finally get it.
Some guys who look like some other guys who live "over there" flew planes into buildings. It was embarrassing to Bush - it looked weak to be sittin on your ass doin nothin and get whacked by people who came from roughly the geographic area where your daddy fought a war.
Bush was surrounded by all the macho guys who wanted BushDaddy to go get Saddam, but BushDaddy listened to "them sissies."
Afghanistan was too easy to attack and subdue - initially. More military fireworks were needed for US TV. The military opperation in Afghanistan did not FEEL to "w" like enough "Uumph" to salve his sense of payback. More guys that looked like the guys who flew into building had to be "ass booted."
Dick Cheney has been asked numerous times, poit black: "you gave your analysis after the first Gulf War and you listed the bad things that may have come about if we attacked Iraq. Why/When did you change your mind?"
"9-11 changed everything."
"Can you say, specifically how?"
"It just did."
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My redneck brother-in-law says that he knows exactly what Cheney meant. We had to "DO SOMETHING" and it had to be "AS BIG AS 0-11."
It was a sort of Biblical necessity. Eye for an Eye.
Question is: Who has lost the most eyes now?
