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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (262910)	6/11/2002 2:20:00 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Another retard heard from. Go back to your rock, gerard. The enemy is real. 911 was a real attack from a real enemy. The economic price has been horrible, to all Americans. Republicans and Democrats alike. And, the price in terms of pain and suffering to so many, is still felt by me, and no doubt millions of others. I will never forget.

To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (262910)	6/11/2002 2:44:55 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

homeland It reminds me too much of fatherland. I think it reveals much of the influences of those promoting this war on terror. TP

To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (262910)	6/11/2002 3:15:15 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

KARL ROVE'S MINISTRY OF FEAR New Terror Scare Politically Timed: Just Like The Others CBS Hints It's Got White House's Number Latest Propaganda Comes Amid Dropping Polls mediawhoresonline.com The new terror warning from the White House about planned "dirty bombs" and the arrest of an alleged Brooklyn-born Al Qaeda associate has been exposed as, in part, a politically-timed effort by the White House to distract the press and the public. Remarkably, the entire White House, from Dubya to Ashcroft to, yes, Paul Wolfowitz has suddenly started braying about the arrest. Yet the man in question was taken into custody more than a month ago, on May 8. Why didn't the White House bray then? Because that's not the way Karl Rove's Ministry of Fear works. President Roosevelt: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" George W. Bush: "Fear!!!" As with every other "warning," "terror alert," or "homeland security" speech from the Bush White House, this alleged dirty bomb stuff comes to public notice at a time calculated to scare Americans to distraction, and divert attention from growing public uneasiness with Dubya. Fresh revelations about foul-ups and cover-ups in connection with September 11? Put out a warning about scuba diver terrorists and imminent attacks on the Brooklyn Bridge. Coleen Rowley about to testify? Knock her off the front pages with a hastily thrown-together "homeland security" speech. Dubya's numbers softening? Dig up a report about somebody arrested a month ago for allegedly planning something deeply scary. Think we're stretching? Only this week -- in a report written shortly before the "dirty bomber" got put in the front page -- the National Journal was reporting deepening gloom inside the Rove Ministry of Fear. [P]ollsters and other political operatives had begun suggesting that there was a certain uneasiness among Americans in recent weeks, that things didn't seem to be in control. There was a certain frustration from the endless warnings of upcoming terrorist acts against our country and that we still had not managed to track down Osama bin Laden. In some private polling, but not in the Ipsos-Reid/Cook Political Report samplings, there was also a drop in 'right direction' numbers, with the 'wrong track' column surging. While it was not directly rubbing off on the President, it was not what a President's advisors would like to see happening Then, out of the blue, came flamboyant news about this month-old arrest. A few journalists have begun to catch on to this bogus fear-mongering. As CBS's Dan Rather noted on his Evening News on June 10: "The arrest was made May 8th. It's not clear why Ashcroft chose to reveal this a month later -- with great fanfare -- while traveling in Russia." We have a feeling Dan knows why. That very phrase "dirty bomb" sounds like a Rovian poll-tested term, doesn't it? With all of the overtones of a nuclear holocaust averted (when, even if the vicious alleged plan had worked, it would have been terrible but far short of that). Lost in the hysteria was the fact that, so far, no one is known to have produced one of these bombs for use against the US. Instead, there is a suspect in custody who allegedly "planned" to make one -- and he has been in custody for a month. We wonder -- are there are other American citizens whom the Justice Department has collected evidence about involvement in planning to build terrorist bombs -- not necessarily building, just planning to build? Any information collected over the years along these lines about the more violent of the right-wing militia groups? If so, what have the results been? Have the suspects been arrested? If they have not been, why not? And if they have, why no publicity? When will the Whores learn to stop and think before acting as the mouthpiece for the Ministry of Fear? mediawhoresonline.com