Sound Politics: Patty Murray, call your office

January 19, 2009

Patty Murray, call your office

Sen. Patty Murray December 2002:

"We've got to ask, why is this man (Osama bin Laden) so popular around the world?...Why are people so supportive of him in many countries . . . that are riddled with poverty?

"He's been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that.

"How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?"

January 2008:

Suspected Taliban militants have bombed five schools in Pakistan's Swat valley today.

It's part of a campaign against girls' education that's seen more than 170 schools blown up or burned down in the country's lawless northwest. The militants ordered all girls' schools in the area closed by last Thursday.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at January 19, 2009 07:39 PM | Email This

Comments

1. bin-Laden is not Taliban, so Senator Dim Bulb's Bidenism is perfectly consistent.
/snark

Posted by: Obi-Wan on January 19, 2009 08:06 PM

2. har har. I hear Patty Murray's next day job after she's done being a U.S. Senator will be to work in one of those islamic day care centers that Osama supposedly built.

Posted by: Michele on January 19, 2009 08:51 PM

3. When did Bin Laden stop being a CIA asset?

Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on January 19, 2009 10:09 PM

4. I would actually be happy if we settled with not building or blowing up schools in Afghanistan. When did it become a choice that we had to chose one or the other?

Also an answer to #3 will be useful to know. It help prepare for the attacks we are sure to receive from the current leaders we are supporting in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, and who knows where else.

Posted by: Lysander on January 19, 2009 11:13 PM

5. Folks here obviously need to read "The Looming Tower" by Richard Wright and get up-to-date on the ideology that created Bin-Laden. Fanatical Islam is a big problem that's not just going to go away.

Oh wait, didn't the children sing that Obama was going to make it all better. Oh yeah, that's right. Now we just need to let the magic begin, and suddenly those bad guys will fall prostrate, ecstatic like the rest of those attending the inauguration tomorrow, and the world will be filled with peace and live happily ever after.

Posted by: Jeff B. on January 19, 2009 11:33 PM

6. Everyone gives Murray shit about this, but while Osama himself is not out building schools terrorists are. Hamas, while bombing Israeli kids, is also funding schools for Palestinian ones. Its not that different from the mob, a cult, or even street gangs. They offer something people need to sucker them into a life of violence.

If you actually look at her quote she is saying that one way to fight that is to help ensure that those things are offered by legitimate and non-violent actors. Just as after school sports say help to fight gangs by offering kids the things they are seeking while also giving them a positive influence.

If we can decrease the level of desperation in the world and increase our perception as a 'good' country we can do a fair bit to fight terrorism. Especially if we also have the ability to destroy anyone who still decides to throw in their lot with terrorists.

Posted by: Giffy on January 19, 2009 11:41 PM

7. Prios to 911, we were the largest donor of foreign aid to Aghanistan. So the meme that the terrorists were doing all the infrastructure is a lie. The people the leftist talk about are the ones attacking girls for the "crime" of wanting an education.

All one needs to do is use google and you can find many stories of Patty Murray's "friends" and what they really do for "infrastructure". I looked at many links until I found a source that lib trolls wouldn't dispute:

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/11/20081112111240476386.html

Posted by: pbj on January 20, 2009 12:19 AM

8. screw what the world thinks about us; we've been good and generous enough with our own blood and money throughout our entire history; no country is perfect; and none I think better;

Murray thinks this is a game; terrorists are not playing around and don't talk; they act; when will our moronic elected officials get that? or maybe they DO, and...

Posted by: jimmie-howya-doin on January 20, 2009 03:13 AM

9. They don't call her "Dumb Patty" for nothing.

Posted by: JB on January 20, 2009 03:38 AM

10. Hamas, while bombing Israeli kids, is also funding schools for Palestinian ones.

The difference is that Hamas is building them to launch rockets from. Their hatred if Israel is so great they use their children as shields.

Posted by: Vince on January 20, 2009 05:40 AM

11. Why dwell on the past; THIS is the dawn of a NEW beginning, can we all rejoice in it's potential and view the glass as half-full. We are very fortunate to live in America, let's not discount that. :)

Posted by: Duffman on January 20, 2009 07:41 AM

12. Duffie... Put down the beer bud. It's way to early!

LOL

Posted by: Medic/Vet on January 20, 2009 08:13 AM

13. On this day my friend I will choose to interpret your acronym of LOL as 'loving Obama's leadership'. :)

Posted by: Duffman on January 20, 2009 08:16 AM

14. Odd, isn't it, how badly leftists want us to forget all about the past, and focus on the new messiah.

I'd by into that a little more if any of them had felt that way during the last Administration... but, double-standard will out.

Posted by: hinton on January 20, 2009 11:48 PM

15. Odd, isn't it, how badly leftists want us to forget all about the past, and focus on the new messiah.

I'd by into that a little more if any of them had felt that way during the last Administration... but, double-standard will out.

Posted by: hinton on January 20, 2009 11:49 PM

16. Oh look, Stefan tries to paint the same picture using to different brushes, how cute. I'm assuming "you not so good reading comprehension." Now go back and try again. I'll wait.

mmmm...mmmmm....

Okay, now did you see how in the first quote the speaker (Patty Murray) was referring to madrassas, not schools that included girls. If you knew anything about the history of the Taliban then this would not be hard for you to recognize. If however, you're clueless but nonetheless granted internet access, well then maybe you'd try to suggest that the second statement contradicts the first.

The second statement, pay attention here, this is important, refers to girls schools in the Swat Valley. See that, in one case the Taliban is building schools (for boys), in the second they are blowing up schools (for girls). So the suggested contradiction, subtle as it may be by our gifted writer, is either intentionally misleading, or a failure of "them not so good reading skills."

You choose Sound Politics.

Posted by: Dick Nixon on January 21, 2009 01:05 PM