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"Harry Hope" |
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06 Jun 2007 09:15:07 AM |
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Another phony terrorist plot |
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2651
June 6, 2007
Curses, foiled again!
Another setback, another phony terrorist plot
By DOUG THOMPSON
Like so many of the dubious claims of foiled terrorist plots, last
week's announcement that the Bush Administration's Keystone Kops
Department of Homeland Security had uncovered and blocked a plan to
blow up New York's JFK Airport reeked to high heaven.
According to the same federal guardians of national security who place
six-year-old kids and infirm grandmothers on the airlines' "no fly"
lists while waving a TB-infected traveler through customs with no
questions during an international alert, a group of evil men with all
the intellect of a five-year old planned to blow up the airport by
setting fire to a fuel depot several miles away.
The plan, if you can call this comedy of errors one, was that the fire
would spread to the airport and destroy it.
Of course, this "plan" depended on the ability of slow-burning
kerosene to explode - something it doesn't do - and a number of other
impossible actions that violate the laws of gravity and physics.
Announcement of the "plot" came as the Bush administration came off a
particular bad month in the failed Iraq war and just as Democratic
candidates for President headed into another debate.
It might have worked had not everyone with an ounce of common sense -
from local beat cops to real terrorism experts - been willing to
explain how the plan wouldn't work as laid out by the FBI and other
lemmings ready to run off cliffs for the Bush Administration.
Revelations of the plot that wasn't also came as a military judge was
set to rule that Bush's use of cobbled-together military tribunals to
detain terrorism suspects without the usual protections of the
Constitution fail not only the smell test but the rule of law.
Every time Bush suffers a setback on his loophole-filled "war on
terrorism," his minions come up with claims of a foiled plot.
He suffers a lot of setbacks so we get a lot of breathless claims.
Like the recent announcement of a foiled plot by other terrorists who,
the Administration would like us to believe, planned dress up as pizza
delivery men to sneak into Fort Dix, kill as many American soldiers as
they could, and then escape in their phony pizza truck.
According to the laughable premise of this plot, this handful of
gun-wielding terrorists were not on a suicide mission but thought they
could roar into a military base filled with soldiers trained to right,
shoot it out with them, and then escape unharmed.
The laughs you hear come from security professionals who wonder just
when Bush and the Department of Homeland Security hired the writers
from Saturday Night Live to devise phony terrorist scenarios.
These latest claims of foiled plots show the frantic desperation that
drives the Bush White House and its complete, utter loss of touch with
reality.
In Bush's fantasy world, terrorists are akin to the villains in a
vaudeville skit, threatening to tie young Nell to the railroad track
unless they get the deed to the ranch until a cardboard cowboy
President rides in to save the day and Osama slinks back into his cave
to twirl his mustache and utter "curses, foiled again."
But before we buy into this vaudeville act, we should remember that
the word "foiled" is a derivative of "foil," which the dictionary
defines as "to obscure or confuse."
A perfect definition of the goal of the administration of George W.
Bush.
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Now there's this story 'bout the li'l boy who cried wolf...........
http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/boy.html
Harry
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06 Jun 2007 09:42:25 AM |
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On Jun 6, 10:15?am, Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2651
June 6, 2007
Curses, foiled again!
Another setback, another phony terrorist plot
By DOUG THOMPSON
Now there's this story 'bout the li'l boy who cried wolf...........http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/boy.html
Harry
Next time, Bush/Cheney should pick their "terrorists" more carefully.
And pick ones with a higher IQ. Hopefully there will not be a next
time. Watch how this story drops from the news quickly, and the
"terrorists" will not be charged because they are on the Bush
payroll.
This "terror plot" has the Bush/Cheney Stench all over it. Bush/Cheney
cannot fool anyone anymore.
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