Dana Perino is backpedaling on comments (that we reported on earlier) that seemed to suggest that terrorists have struck America on President Obama's watch but didn't on President Bush's.
On Fox News last night, the former Bush press secretary was talking about how we ought to label the deadly shooting at Fort Hood -- and implying that the Obama administration was shying away from calling it a terrorist attack out of political concerns -- when she said:
We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term. I hope they're not looking at this politically. I do think that we owe it to the American people to call it what it is.
See the video here.
This afternoon, Perino tried to explain herself via Twitter.
Last night on Hannity, I obviously meant no terror attack on U.S. post 9/11 during Bush 2nd term. We have the tools, just need to use them!

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tiowally
November 25, 2009 5:25 PM
If Dana was a little classier I'd call her a whore.
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tiowally
November 25, 2009 5:28 PM in reply to tiowally
Just to be clear, the all-but-forgotten Anthrax attacks don't count.
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celldumceen
November 25, 2009 7:48 PM in reply to tiowally
Now that was funny!
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BeeClone
November 25, 2009 6:02 PM
What she meant was after the anthrax attacks, yes that's it, he was great at keeping us safe after he didn't.
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AmericanDad
November 25, 2009 6:02 PM
Even with her footnote, she's grossly in error (or lying). There were the anthrax attacks, of course, but still more.
Perino insists the Ft. Hood shooting -- one event by one deeply disturbed man -- is an act of terrorism. OK, by that standard, we must include in Bush's list of terrorist attacks on US soil the DC sniper (and the guy's name was Muhammad!), the grenade blasts outside the UK Embassy in NYC (which Fox's Michelle Malkin declared was "clearly meant to terrorize or worse"), and the Ohio sniper. Let's not forget the Glen Beck fan who attacked a Knoxville church for being liberal . How about the Virginia Tech killings?
There were also numerous attacks on abortion clinics that I'd certainly categorize as terrorism: May 2000, arsonists hit a clinic in Concord, NH; September 2000, a Catholic priest drove his car into the Northern Illinois Health Clinic then pulled out an ax before being shot at by a security guard; June 11, 2001, a bombing at a clinic in Tacoma, Washington; November 2001, Clayton Waagner mailed hoax letters containing a white powder to 554 clinics; July 4, 2005, a clinic Palm Beach, Florida was the target of an arson; December 12, 2005, Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe threw a Molotov cocktail at a clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana; September 13, 2006, David McMenemy of Rochester Hills, Michigan, crashed his car into the Edgerton Women’s Care Center in Davenport, Iowa, then doused the lobby in gasoline and started a fire; April 25, 2007, a package left at a women’s health clinic in Austin, Texas, contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death; May 9, 2007, a Planned Parenthood clinic in Virginia Beach, Virginia, was set afire; December 6, 2007, Dr. Curtis Boyd’s clinic in Albuquerque, NM was destroyed by arson -- later that same month, two Planned Parenthood buildings were attacked, with arson destroying a surgery center used for abortion. In fact, in just the last year of Bush's term alone, 20% of abortion clinics were attacked, up from 18.4% in 2005 (also a Bush year).
Any other acts of terror I've missed?
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BeeClone
November 25, 2009 6:39 PM in reply to AmericanDad
Hold on there, whose weren’t terrorist attacks, the perpetrators have to be Muslim, everybody knows that.
One question: George W. Bush great President or greatest President?
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commie atheist
November 26, 2009 1:10 AM in reply to BeeClone
Greatest FUCKING President, obviously! George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt - all of them pikers compared to the greatness that was Bush. Only St. Ronnie can compare to him.
George W. Bush - he kept us safe from terrorism, except for all those times he didn't.
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M.L.H.
November 26, 2009 12:40 PM in reply to AmericanDad
All the I.E.D. attacks in Iraq aren't really acts of war, they are acts of terrorism. After all, the people attacking our soldiers aren't wearing uniforms, so they are just armed combatants instead of soldiers in an army. We don't have to follow the Geneva conventions rules on the treatment of captured soldiers with these guys. Those facts prove the majority of our soldiers in Iraq were killed by terrorists and not by an actual opposing army.
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