Anti-American Quotes
36 days later, September 11, he did strike, and at the World Trade Center. The memo was kept secret by the Bush administration until public pressure as a result of the 9-11 Commission hearings forced the declassification and release. At that point it became clear that there was no reason that the memo could not have been released much earlier except that it was embarrassing.
The Ayatollah was the Spiritual Leader of Hezbollah, one of the largest terrorist organization in the world at the time. He was even a strong supporter of suicide bombers killing civilians. Unlike many other terrorists, he also supported government economic action.
He was a strong conservative who defended the George W, Bush administration, He was not alone in believing that in wartime, attacks and criticisms of the President and his administration give “aid and comfort to the enemy and weaken the nation’s resolve. However, he is almost unique in the level of hypocracy that he exhibited when a Democrat was next in the Presidency. The fact that we were in two major wars and incursions as well, did not inhibit him from viciously critizing President Barack Obama. He didn’t think this made him a “BAD” American and promptly forgot this quotation which came back to ic in haunt him.
In war time often we have behaved in ways we were embarrassed by in the fullness of time such as the internment of the Japanese Americans in WWII. The vast majority of the press was totally intimidated and any one who suggested that the administration might be wrong was not only accused of being themselves wrong but of being un-American and almost a traitor. O’Reiley probably did this better than most. History and events of course, showed later that these premises and claims were totally wrong. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and there was no Iraqi involvement in with Al Quaeda and September 11. Many people do not think O’Reily was a BAD American for being a ctitic in wartime and neither were the people he labeled as “BAD”. In a democracy, critism helps even if it is embarrassing to a particular administration.
