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The Sushi Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 05:02 PM
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Does anyone know WHY we are @ ORANGE alert??
who is in danger???
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 05:05 PM
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1. Nothing is more amusing than scaring the masses for the holidays
At least that's the mindset of the Bush Administration. Then if there are no attacks, they'll go back to "yellow" and claim it was the upgrade in security threat that averted an attack.

Kinda like that proverbial tree in the forest and no one is there to see it.
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citizen snips Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 05:06 PM
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2. Because it is Christmas.
And there has been increased terroist comminication.
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Dimsdale Donating Member (466 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 06:00 PM
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10. Increase in "chatter"...
Edited on Mon Dec-22-03 06:01 PM by Dimsdale
which, apparently, they're quite capable of monitoring now. But before 9/11? The "Security pResident" wasn't that much into security, one would think.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 05:07 PM
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3. Keep Bush on peoples's minds over the holidays
You can't trust this group; more than likely, it is a political ploy to scare holiday travelers and, when nothing happens, to remind them to be grateful to their president for their safety. And, the public will buy it.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 05:07 PM
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4. To knock some other news off the front page
Edited on Mon Dec-22-03 05:08 PM by BlueEyedSon
Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031221/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_saddam_britain_031221040020
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 05:13 PM
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7. Yes, of course. You see it's all very simple
The Saddam story is indeed an unnecessary bit of ugliness and all, and then there's the unfortunate matter of Tom Kean and his remark that 9/11 could have been prevented. I think he really meant to say it 'should have been prevented." But that is neither here nor there.

So move along. There's nothing to be curious about.

Catch the spirit of the season: "don we now our orange apparel"
Charge it, charge it, charge it....
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mikehiggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 05:11 PM
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5. They couldn't get the polka dots in. They were backordered. eom
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LiberalVoice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 05:12 PM
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6. The entire "Terror Alert" system is designed to keep people in check.
Much like the hour a day the citizens in 1984 were forced to sit and watch horrific scenes of violence on television. Just not as violent.

Well not yet anyway.
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 05:22 PM
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8. Because we captured Saddam and...
that has made us safer, er...um, oh wait umm, umm...oh nevermind!
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DieboldMustDie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 05:43 PM
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9. Should have gone all the way to Red...
It's more Christmassy, doncha think? :evilgrin:
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 06:54 PM
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11. People might hear about the flagging Xmas sales
DANGER! DANGER! ORANGE ALERT! LOOK OVER HERE!
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 07:07 PM
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12. Chatter..............
chatter, chatter, chatter,chatter,chatter,chatter,chatter,chatter,chatter,chatter,chatter,chatter. Oh yes, and chatter.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 08:49 PM
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13. I think it has something to do with the Kurds capturing Saddam
:O
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The Sushi Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-03 12:43 PM
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14. How long can you "Cry Wolf"??
this Alert stuff is all BS!!!
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-03 04:25 PM
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16. In the Soviet Union or Imperial Amerika, about 90 years
(so that leaves us 87 years of Imperial Bushevik Oppression to go...)

In Nazi Germany, approximately 12 years, but I think it would have been closer to 90 had not the Free World (of which Imperial Amerika is no longer a part) risen up to stop Grandpa Prescott Bush's old business partners.
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Bush_Unemployed_04 Donating Member (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-03 03:18 PM
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15. Because things are "safer" now........
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wellst0nev0ter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-03 06:08 PM
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17. Here's The "Official" Reason
"Authorities raised the terrorist threat assessment over the weekend after new intelligence indicated that operatives of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network, possibly trained and licensed to fly passenger jets, may now be pilots for some foreign airlines, ideally positioning them to carry out suicide attacks, U.S. officials told NBC News on Monday."

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3775771/
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-03 11:06 PM
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18. Well, if true...that certainly is a danger
The biggest question is: IF True?

That's the problem with having the most corrupt cabal to ever seize power in American History at the helm. How can you believe 'em when they have lied so often about such life-and-death issues, not just your garden variety Blow Job.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-24-03 11:12 AM
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19. Because homegrown extremists in the US are making up the chatter
Here's a link to some to the research I've done on this topic. Keep in mind this is just the tip of the iceberg, there are a lot more leads in this rat's nest that I've stepped in that I haven't had the chance to track down yet.


Code Orange: Is it based on an Internet Hoax?
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