John M. Tomaszewski – 4/10/07

This page was last updated on April 10, 2007.

Scare tactics; John M. Tomaszewski; Beaver County Times; April 10, 2007.

Since September 2004, this is at least the 19^th letter from Mr. Tomaszewski spouting liberal talking points, with most bashing Republicans and/or President Bush.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“The Bush administration continues to use scare tactics to support the two wars - ‘Remember 9-11,’ ‘If you are against the wars, you are unpatriotic and don’t support our troops’ and ‘It’s better to fight the terrorists over there than here, etc.’

[RWC] Asking people to remember 9/11 is a scare tactic? If so, what is ignoring it?

I haven’t heard anyone claim opposing the war is unpatriotic. What many criticize as unpatriotic is the motivation (purely political) and how folks like Mr. Tomaszewski go about their business to oppose the war. For example, why isn’t Mr. Tomaszewski also writing to complain about U.S. troops in Kosovo?

Does Mr. Tomaszewski not believe “It’s better to fight the terrorists over there than here?”

“The 9-11 terrorists attack was the continuance of terrorist attacks against us, as was done in Yemen, World Trade Center and against our overseas embassies.”

[RWC] Oops, Mr. Tomaszewski accidentally admitted 9/11 wasn’t the first time terrorists attacked us, though his list is still only a small subset of the total attacks. Folks like Mr. Tomaszewski usually like to pretend anti-U.S. terrorism didn’t exist until President Bush took office.

“The 9-11 attack didn’t require two wars. It did show our weakness in intelligence and security. The State Department and the CIA failed us.”

[RWC] BS! 9/11 was the culmination of multiple decades of not taking Islamofascists seriously. Mr. Tomaszewski appears to forget former President Bill Clinton turned down offers from Middle East countries to take Osama bin Laden. The Clinton administration also failed to kill Osama bin Laden when the CIA located him in Afghanistan years before 9/11.