Getting Serious About Terrorism

The USS Cole was bombed in October of 2000. Obviously, that wasn't on Bush's watch. Bush did, however, let us know how, as president, he would respond to such a thing. He did so on the David Letterman show, on which Dave actually asked some serious questions because , unlike the Heathers, thought there were some serious issues in the year 2000:

"Letterman then asked Bush about the terrorist murder of 17 U.S. sailors [serving aboard the USS Cole] in Yemen. Seriously.

"If I find out who it was, they'd pay a serious price," Bush said of the bombing. "I mean a serious price."

"Now, what does that mean?" Letterman asked, a follow-up Bush doesn't often get when he's asked about such bravado.

"That means they're not going to like what happened to them," Bush said, and the crowd went wild.

"Now are you talking about retaliation or due process of law?" Letterman asked.

"Heh-heh," Bush said. "I'm talking about gettin' the facts and lettin' them know we don't appreciate it and there's a serious consequence ... And I'll decide what that consequence is."

As Hesiod reminds us at the link, we strongly suspected Bin Laden and al Qaeda immediately. We found a direct Bin Laden link before Bush's inauguration. Bush's plan to go after the terrorists? Highlight the space below this text to see what it was.



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