More Lies and Scare Tactics
Ricky over at BottleOfBlog draws some interesting conclusions on how Mr. Bush and his mean friends just wanted to scare us with all those spooky terrorist warnings and that weirdo-color-terrorist-alert-chart-thingy. Ricky does kind of have a potty mouth, but he seems pretty smart.
I was just thinking about this the other day. You know, last year, Homeland Security was so busy!
Last Christmas, we were all told that probably every shopping mall in America would be exploded. New Year's would probably not happen. We went to about Orange Plus during the revelations about torture in Iraq, and, funny enough, right about every time some embarrassing revelation about Bush's military service, Bush's incredibly incompetent handling of the executive branch, just about every time some crazy government report came out detailing how fucking stupid Bush and his insane clown posse were.
Right down to the wire, Homeland Security was working overtime! They were on high alert for the explosion of North America right around the election! There was even talk about what to do if elections had to be cancelled!
Funny thing, though. Presidential election was three months ago. Violence is escalating in Iraq. Presidential inaugeration is this week. Christmas and New Years were just a couple of weeks ago.
And we haven't heard dick from Homeland Security.
According to an article in the Washington Post,
In April, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced that al Qaeda terrorists might strike during this week's presidential inauguration festivities in Washington...
Nine months later, the threat level has been lowered, and Ridge, speaking at a news conference last week, said there is no evidence of a plot to disrupt President Bush's inauguration. Previous warnings, Ridge explained, stemmed from threat reports tied to the elections -- not to the inauguration more than two months later...
The shift in rhetoric about the dangers posed by terrorists during the inauguration marks the latest retreat from last year's terrorism warnings, which, in retrospect, were based largely on faulty intelligence, dated information or -- as with the inauguration -- an educated guess.
So, it seems that Mr. Bush wanted to get to be President again so badly, that he used the Department of Homeland Security to scare us all, and use educated-guess-information to frighten those us in to voting for him. I don't think that's very nice.
I was just thinking about this the other day. You know, last year, Homeland Security was so busy!
Last Christmas, we were all told that probably every shopping mall in America would be exploded. New Year's would probably not happen. We went to about Orange Plus during the revelations about torture in Iraq, and, funny enough, right about every time some embarrassing revelation about Bush's military service, Bush's incredibly incompetent handling of the executive branch, just about every time some crazy government report came out detailing how fucking stupid Bush and his insane clown posse were.
Right down to the wire, Homeland Security was working overtime! They were on high alert for the explosion of North America right around the election! There was even talk about what to do if elections had to be cancelled!
Funny thing, though. Presidential election was three months ago. Violence is escalating in Iraq. Presidential inaugeration is this week. Christmas and New Years were just a couple of weeks ago.
And we haven't heard dick from Homeland Security.
According to an article in the Washington Post,
In April, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced that al Qaeda terrorists might strike during this week's presidential inauguration festivities in Washington...
Nine months later, the threat level has been lowered, and Ridge, speaking at a news conference last week, said there is no evidence of a plot to disrupt President Bush's inauguration. Previous warnings, Ridge explained, stemmed from threat reports tied to the elections -- not to the inauguration more than two months later...
The shift in rhetoric about the dangers posed by terrorists during the inauguration marks the latest retreat from last year's terrorism warnings, which, in retrospect, were based largely on faulty intelligence, dated information or -- as with the inauguration -- an educated guess.
So, it seems that Mr. Bush wanted to get to be President again so badly, that he used the Department of Homeland Security to scare us all, and use educated-guess-information to frighten those us in to voting for him. I don't think that's very nice.
posted by cookie christine @ 1/18/2005
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