Dionne: Dean sees red over code orange (Dean was right again!)

Larkspur

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Wed Aug-04-04 11:52 AM
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Dionne: Dean sees red over code orange (Dean was right again!)

Doubts about latest terror alert seem justified -- is Bush using Department of Homeland Security as 'trump card'?
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17417

Somebody owes Howard Dean an apology. You bet Dean is owed an apology from Dems and Repukes alike.

Over the past few days, the former Vermont governor and Democratic Presidential candidate has endured a barrage of bad press and nasty commentary, simply because he expressed honest doubts about the government�s latest terror alarm. Republican pundits and politicians predictably denounced him. Senator John Kerry disowned Dr. Dean�s remarks, and Senator Joe Lieberman went further, suggesting that anyone who harbors such doubts must not be �in their right mind.�

In short, to think that the Bush administration might issue an alert for political advantage is a symptom of madness. The latest news reports, however, indicate that Dr. Dean�s suspicions were hardly unfounded.

On Aug. 1, as every alert citizen knows, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge held an unusual Sunday press conference to announce that the Bush administration had raised its color-coded threat level from yellow to orange in certain selected places -- in New York and New Jersey�s financial centers and the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. In his opening remarks, Mr. Ridge told America that the decision was provoked by �new and unusually specific information.�
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Dudley_DUright

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Wed Aug-04-04 03:12 PM
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1. Link goes to article written by Joe Conason (not E.J. Dionne)

Edited on Wed Aug-04-04 03:13 PM by Dudley_DUright

Great article no matter who wrote it! :-)

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Eloriel

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Wed Aug-04-04 10:15 PM
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2. Yeah, here it is on CommonDreams -- Conason

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0804-10.htm

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Miss Authoritiva

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Thu Aug-05-04 12:30 AM
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3. Spouse-type person and I keep arguing about this.

He (who has to run the gauntlet commuting to Manhattan) was initially very upset about Dean's comments, fearing Republican retribution. I approved of Dean's comments, which were not as reckless and mad-dog as some commentators made them out to be. And of course as the words "new" and "immediate" and "specific" and "quantity" continue to be downgraded, spouse-type person is easing up.

Plus, I told him that, as with terrorists, we can't live our lives in fear of Republicans.

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