Wolf! Wolf!
A cynic would suspect that the Democrat’s election campaign has obviously been attracting a little too much media attention of late, after a stronger than expected acceptance speech by John Kerry. What normally happens when things start getting a bit rough for the Bush administration? That’s right, there’s been another terrorist threat warning! Obviously American intelligence (I shall resist the urge to enclose that word in a pair of facetious inverted commas) has had its reliability questioned recently, so they’ve had to make a statement along the lines of that they were just guessing before and that this time they really really mean it, honest.
This is not the usual chatter. This is multiple sources that involve extraordinary detail
So, this “usual chatter” you speak of, would this be the same chatter on which the case for the Iraq war was constructed?
Either Bush & co are trying to use security warnings to increase popular support for the Republican party in the forthcoming presidential elections, or these are genuine security worries that will be doubted and go unheeded by many due to the whitehouse’s manipulation of intelligence information in the past. Either way the solution is a new administration.
I will put £50 on there being a security threat announcement by the US government less than one week before the election day. Any takers? The loser shall pay the money to the winner’s charity of choice. Oh, and if Bush wins the election, I will donate all my belongings too, and move to a remote indonesian island to lead the life of a hermit cut off from the insanity of the modern world.
—Update: It has now emerged that the intelligence information we were lead to believe was rock solid is possibly years out of date.
August 3rd, 2004 at 20:00
You have it right on the money! Which is why I won’t put my money on your wager
Can they (our administration) be any more transparent?
August 4th, 2004 at 08:28
Transparent they are indeed. No wager from me, either! I find it interesting how, although the data is old, the American government insists that the country is under threat.
Just like Michael Moore stated in Fahrenheit 9/11: if you keep people in constant fear (when there’s really nothing to fear), they’ll pretty much do what you tell them.
Even vote for an unspeakable idiot.
August 4th, 2004 at 22:28
One one hand, I find it hard to believe that the Bush administration expects the American public to actually swallow their pack of little lies. On the other hand, it obviously does, in part. The public, that is. Which is equally freightening.