- Pity poor Howard Dean. The man seems to be the only
person on the left who has the spine to call them as he sees them. With
Kerry and the Democrats starting to get some decent press after the convention,
along come the Bush Gang acting like the Lost in Space robot yelling "Warning!
Warning!" again. Tom "Captain Crayola" Ridge not only told
us that they had "new and specific" evidence regarding this latest
alert, but he also assured everyone that it was all due to Bush's "leadership"
in the war on terrorism that they found out about the threat. A few days
later he needed to also assure everyone that the Department of Homeland
Security "doesn't do politics." Yeah, okay sure, Tom.
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- Dean had the audacity, according to some, to question
the timing of this alert and actually stating that it seemed to him that
every time Bush's numbers took a dump, they'd issue another warning of
some sort. How dare that Howard!
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- Now, granted, Ridge and Co. "forgot" to initially
state that the information was over three years old and it was a duplicate
of a warning from April 2002, according to the CNN archives (don't they
even research their own stuff?). And let's not even consider the fact that
the administration had been leaning on Pakistan to give them a "July
Surprise" to rob the Democrats of any publicity or, that after Pakistan
delivered, the Bushes sat on the information for about three weeks. Now,
a week later, we have to be afraid of helicopters and scuba divers as well.
And if that's not enough overkill for you, we have right wing mouthpieces
like Drudge and the Washington Times going off about assassination and
such.
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- Hey, wait a minute. Weren't scuba divers on the top ten
list of things to be afraid of back in July of '02? Remember? That was
when the government spooks were watching the movie "Godzilla"
for clues. Naw, they wouldn't really recycle terrorist warnings would they?
Nope, perish the thought because there's nothing to see here and shame
on anyone who would even entertain the thought that Bush would use terrorism
and fear as a diversion. The timing is just a coincidence.
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- The problem is that there have been far too many "coincidences"
since 9/11 and I get the feeling that the Bush Gang is riding so high up
on their horses that they don't think anybody will notice. For example,
let's go back to the spring of '02.
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- The rest of the story.........
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- http://www.oldamericancentury.org/dave300015.htm
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