Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Chicken Little
Again, because this Administration has lied so often in the past, it's hard to take this dire warning of planned terrorist attacks over the summer in the US seriously. Besides, coming the day after W's ineffective, fumbling speech, it just seems like so much distraction.
After all, if the terrorists are supposedly already here, why hasn't the Terror Alert level been raised to Orange? And if we're on their trail and know what they're up to but it's not imminent, why publish the warning now? Isn't that the best way to make the Evil Doers™ go to ground so that we can't catch them?
Again, given the Administration's past incompetence, there's no good outcome for them from this. If the warning is just bullshit, designed to keep the populace paranoid -- well, how dare they. If it's a real warning and something does happen, then it should serve as the final proof the hardcore rightwingers need that this administration has done fuck-all to make Americans safer from terrorism.
Then again, this may be a set-up for a pre-Republican Convention surprise -- no actual attack, or a minor incident in a blue state, followed by triumphant announcements of a major terrorist cell being broken up in, say, Missouri or Iowa or some other heartland red state, just in time for W to take full credit in his acceptance speech.
Again, the credibility of this Administration is so non-existent that they could produce live video of Osama bin Laden creeping around the New York Subway System with a briefcase bomb and it would be hard to believe. And whose fault is that? Why, the Administration's, of course -- to the point that the only credible evidence anyone with a brain would believe anymore is, unfortunately, Condi Rice's famous smoking mushroom cloud.
But, still, two details don't make sense. If the threat is real, why announce it so long before the fact? If it's real but not all that long before the fact, why no elevation of the terror alert level?
I think, yet again, they're just blowing smoke (and mirrors) up our collective asses -- and I do hope I'm right.
Just in case, though, I've added the Terror Alert Banana to the sidebar. It changes colors with the Terror Alert Level. Ay, chiquita...
After all, if the terrorists are supposedly already here, why hasn't the Terror Alert level been raised to Orange? And if we're on their trail and know what they're up to but it's not imminent, why publish the warning now? Isn't that the best way to make the Evil Doers™ go to ground so that we can't catch them?
Again, given the Administration's past incompetence, there's no good outcome for them from this. If the warning is just bullshit, designed to keep the populace paranoid -- well, how dare they. If it's a real warning and something does happen, then it should serve as the final proof the hardcore rightwingers need that this administration has done fuck-all to make Americans safer from terrorism.
Then again, this may be a set-up for a pre-Republican Convention surprise -- no actual attack, or a minor incident in a blue state, followed by triumphant announcements of a major terrorist cell being broken up in, say, Missouri or Iowa or some other heartland red state, just in time for W to take full credit in his acceptance speech.
Again, the credibility of this Administration is so non-existent that they could produce live video of Osama bin Laden creeping around the New York Subway System with a briefcase bomb and it would be hard to believe. And whose fault is that? Why, the Administration's, of course -- to the point that the only credible evidence anyone with a brain would believe anymore is, unfortunately, Condi Rice's famous smoking mushroom cloud.
But, still, two details don't make sense. If the threat is real, why announce it so long before the fact? If it's real but not all that long before the fact, why no elevation of the terror alert level?
I think, yet again, they're just blowing smoke (and mirrors) up our collective asses -- and I do hope I'm right.
Just in case, though, I've added the Terror Alert Banana to the sidebar. It changes colors with the Terror Alert Level. Ay, chiquita...
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