Remember when the Left went wild over W’s “bring ’em on“…?

As the U.S. Military was mopping up terrorists in the Middle East, ankle-biters were doing everything they could to attack President Bush’s War on Terror.

Their dire predictions of terror attacks against our military prompted W’s retort, which of course sent the Left into a frenzy, predicting such bravado would cause greater harm.

But our military was in the Middle East, with the purpose of finding and killing terrorists.

If they’re hiding, they can’t be killed. Daring them to attack brought them out of hiding.

Now the Left is silent, as Obama ridicules the metastasizing al-Qaeda threat throughout those same regions and other nations, calling such groups ‘junior varsity’ wannabes.

The difference? Obama’s comments practically dare such groups to step up their terror acts against civilian populations, not against U.S. military forces trained to fight them.

Does the Left understand that, after such contempt for these al-Qaeda groups, every terror strike they make now and in the future, to prove their ‘varsity’ status…

…can be blamed on the fool who just taunted them?

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