Safer

Posted on September 9, 2004 by Gene

The Bush administration constantly harps on how much safer we are under their benevolent protection. Let’s look at the Safety score, shall we?
SAFER

• We are no longer threatened by a contained Iraqi dictator who had lots of money stashed away inside his walls, but no way to build weapons that could reach or threaten us
• Passengers on airplanes can no longer threaten us with nail clippers
• It is much safer to walk in the middle of the street around the U.S. Capitol, because the cars have been banned
• U.S. citizens will no longer have to worry about falling from the west front of the Capitol, plunging to serious injury 20 feet below, because the Capitol is now off-limits

NOT SAFER

• Iraq, once the domain of an evil dictator who kept his people in line through fear and death, now no longer has that stability and has become a terrorist haven. Americans are killed nearly every day there. Iraq has become much more of a threat that it ever was when Hussein was in power
• Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind which the White House now never mentions, is still at large somewhere, probably plotting a horrifying attack
• On Monday, the assault weapons ban expires. This means that on September 13, it will be legal in our country to carry military-style weapons with high capacity ammunition magazines. The Bush administration has done nothing to renew the ban

Yup. We’re much safer now.