Blame Who? For What?

The Obama administration's favorite tactic right now is to blame George W. Bush. They've blamed him for pretty much everything, and they've done it all over the world. Doesn't matter if it's accurate or not, it's still his fault. At some point, that's going to wear thin...it already is, in many circles, but most people will come to the realization that Bush isn't at fault for everything under the sun sooner or later.

Though the economy is the primary issue for most people right now, we must not forget that we are at war with radical Islamic terrorism. To that end, Legal Insurrection reminds us of some things that Obama, the Democrats, and liberals try to blame on Bush, but that reality just doesn't agree with:

Matthew Yglesias on the new tape released by Ayman al-Zawahri telling Muslims not to be fooled by Obama:

Perhaps the best thing that ever happened to the relatively small group of people known as al-Qaeda was the rise to power of George W. Bush, whose brutality, stupidity, and mendacity managed to do an enormous amount to discredit American power and to push those already inclined to be skeptical of the United States further in the direction of hostility and radicalism.

Bush clearly caused this "small group of people" to do the following: The bombing of hotels in Yemen aimed at U.S. servicemen and simultaneous attempted attack on U.S. military planes (1992); attempted assassination of Jordanian Crown Prince Abdullah (1993); the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; the "Black Hawk Down" killing of U.S. servicemen in Somalia (1993); the attempted bombing of the Israeli embassy in Thailand (1994);the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Iran (1994); surveillance of Bill Clinton's trip to the Phillipines in anticipation of an assassination attempt when Clinton was to return two years later (1994); bombing of Phillipines Airlines plane (1994); failed attempt to bomb 11 international airplanes simultaneously (1995); bombing in Saudi Arabia killing five Americans (1995); bombing of our embassies in Africa killing hundreds (1998); the attempted Millennium bombing of LA airport (2000); the attack on the U.S.S. Cole (2000); turning Afghanistan and the Pakistani tribal areas into an al-Qaeda sanctuary and launching pad (the late 1980s and 1990s); and the planning stages of the 2001 World Trade Center attack.

LI suggests that liberals need to review history. I would add that they need to put down the Kool-Aid.

Aw, who am I kiddin'?

There's my two cents.