Gingrich
August 7th, 2007 |
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday the Bush administration is waging a “phony war” on terrorism, warning that the country is losing ground against the kind of Islamic radicals who attacked the country on Sept. 11, 2001.
A more effective approach, said Gingrich, would begin with a national energy strategy aimed at weaning the country from its reliance on imported oil and some of the regimes that petro-dollars support.
“None of you should believe we are winning this war. There is no evidence that we are winning this war,” the ex-Georgian told a group of about 300 students attending a conference for collegiate conservatives.
Uhhh, does Sean Hannity know that Newt is off message?
“We used to be a serious country. When we got attacked at Pearl Harbor, we took on Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany,” he said, referring to World War II.
“We beat all three in less than four years. We’re about to enter the seventh year of this phony war against … [terrorist groups], and we’re losing.”
Gingrich is making sense here, he must not be running for President.
How come John Edwards got so much flack for calling the “War on Terror” a bumper sticker slogan but Gingrich use the phrase “phony war” and no one from the GOP side, or the major media outlets, makes a peep?
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“Are you safer now than you were eight years ago?”
“Are you safer now than you were eight years ago?”
The answer to that question hangs entirely on the question of whether you’ve been called up to do a 14 month tour in the sandbox.