If terrorism doesn't scare you, maybe Bush will

If terrorism doesn't scare you, maybe Bush will

Published August 11, 2006

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What made it a good day was that at least one government, even if it was the British government, knew how to foil a massive terrorist plot.

But back to the fear. President Bush gave a brief speech Thursday on an airport tarmac in Green Bay. In the speech he brought up 9/11, which, of course, for him, is a synonym for fear.

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Scaring the public has worked so well for so long that you can't blame him, really. Except when you consider that it's immoral and unpatriotic.

Now, even if you're a great admirer of President Bush, do you really think Democrats or any adult in this country believes that "there is no threat to the United States of America" from terrorists?

It's a patently absurd statement, but with just a short time allotted for his speech, President Bush chose to try to scare the public into believing that Democrats, if in charge, would fight terrorists with love beads instead of guns.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/redeye/red-081106-greenfield,1,7827791.column?coll=chi-news-hed

Blogged by JC on 08.10.06 @ 11:58 PM ET

A Coordinated Attack, By the White House

The British Intelligence service, MI-5, deserves heaps of praise for uncovering the plot to bomb airliners departing from London. What is very disturbing, however, is learning that the White House had planned to profit politically from this event well before the arrests were made public.

What kind of an indictment of the American media that we need to look to a French newspaper to report on the details of the White House plan. From the Agence France-Presse by way of AmericaBlog:



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Why can't the Republican party put the safety of American citizens first? Why do Republicans first think of political advantage when our nation is at risk? It's time for leadership that will boldly fight terrorism and bolster our homeland security instead of promoting fear as a political prop.

http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/00000525.htm