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July 10, 2007 at 10:51:59

Terrorists in the House - Take Two

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I just received the following email from a friend who always seems to be well informed:

Rick Santorum, the former senator from Pennsylvania, appearing on the Hugh Hewitt radio show last Saturday, July 7: “Between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by this time next year, the American public is going to have a very different view of this war, and it will be because, I think, of some unfortunate events, that like we're seeing unfold in the UK. But I think the American public is going to have a very different view.”

What does this insider know that makes him use the words, “are” going to happen instead of might or could happen? If this is not a slip of the tongue about some planned terrorist attack that he knows about, then it exhibits exactly the mind set of those who want something to happen. At the very least the attitude exhibited by Mr. Santorum is the kind that could cause certain frustrated officials to look the other way and let it happen or even help it along. Last month, the new chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, Dennis Milligan, said, “At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001].” Milligan told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, “And the naysayers will come around very quickly to appreciate not only the commitment for President Bush, but the sacrifice that has been made by men and women to protect this country,” he concluded.
As is now well-known, shortly before 9/11 the Project For A New American Century, a Neo-Con lobby group which counts Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in its ranks, said it's military agenda would not be realized “absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor.” So, hang on. It was recently revealed that 2 nuclear devices are missing from the Pentagon's stockpile. Are Cheney & Co. at it again? I would have bet that they'd at least wait until a Democrat is in the White House. .....makes ‘em look better at protecting the country. But what the heck, why wait? Another home-grown “terrorist” attack might increase the odds of staying in the White House.

This seems to place The Regime between a rock and a hard place, however.

I've always thought that The Regime would pull another “false flag” attack to prove that Al Qaeda is still alive and willing to continue to give Americans the heebie-jeebies.

I thought it might happen before the ’04 election, but it didn’t.

There were other occasions on which I thought that it would choreograph another death fest.

On the other hand, one of the main Regime supporter talking points is that there hasn’t been another terrorist attack in The FUSA because George Washington Bush is president.

I’ve written that this is absurd because that bench mark surely creates a whole host of great presidents of The United States.

How many terrorist attacks were there under Calvin Coolidge, William Howard Taft or Martin Van Buren? Stupid Regime logic.

So, if The Regime choreographs another death fest to show that the boogie man still “hates us for our freedom”, it also deep sixes the “Bush has saved us from further terrorism” argument, doesn’t it?

Song sample for October, 2008 Everybody Knows from the cd Flameland.

Michael Bonanno is a published poet, essayist and musician who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of his poetry can be found at The Poetry Corner at OpEdNews.He is an associate editor for OpEdNews.

Bonanno is a political progressive, not a Democratic Party apologist. He believes it's government's job to help the needy and that leaving the people's well being to the so called "private sector" is social suicide.His CDs may be purchased at CD Baby.

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John Wayne Taylor lives in middle America and he eschews the reputation that middle America has gained as blinded, Bush-following lemmings.John asks, "Do we all think that Bush's polls could really be as low as they are without the help of middle Americans?"The answer, "No".John is also a musician. He's played horns in at least one of his brother's CDs entitled "Counter Clockwise".John is a progressive's progressive and a cynic's cynic.
JohnJohn Wayne Taylor lives in middle America and he eschews the reputation that middle America has gained as blinded, Bush-following lemmings.John asks, "Do we all think that Bush's polls could really be as low as they are without the help of middle Americans?"The answer, "No".John is also a musician. He's played horns in at least one of his brother's CDs entitled "Counter Clockwise".John is a progressive's progressive and a cynic's cynic.

Home grown terrorism does a country good

Go to http://www.thestar.com/News/article/233617 (dated July 08,2007)
to read another example of someone in the military (Canadian) saying that
another 9/11 type "terrorist" event might be necessary in order to rekindle support for the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. The article is lengthy, and the statement comes towards its closing.

Here's a excerpt:

Lt.-Col. Doug Delaney, chair of the war studies program at
the Royal Military College in Kingston says:

"It may well be that the key to bolstering Western resolve is
another terrorist attack like 9/11 or the London transit
bombings of two years ago," he says.

"If nothing happens, it will be harder still to say this [the occupations] is
necessary."

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To have seen the string of deadly lies that have issued from George W. Bush and from those who surround him, and to still not suspect that 9/11 was a Cheney/Rumsfeld/Anderson/Guiliani/Ladeen & Co. operation is to live in Lala Land, an ever so sweet and pitiful place...where, unbenownst to its residents, the foundations are being sawn away by those sworn to protect it. Even at this late date to read David Ray Griffin's book THE NEW PEARL HARBOR is to see that there needs to be a new investigation into 9/11, an investigation NOT overseen by or answerable to anyone in the Bush Administration.

by John (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 29 comments) on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 3:10:02 PM

I'm a citizen and resident of Cascadia - a province of the FORMER USA.

*************

Other than that, what is there to say? I don't really matter... My vote doesn't even count. ***
And who really cares what I think! So I'm free to think anything.

***

The broader story: it's NOT about "me" or my ego or seeing my name in print... I'm a fleeting ephemeral whirlwind of energy patterns and I will soon be gone...

It IS about many m...

to see more of bio, click on member name
mrk *I'm a citizen and resident of Cascadia - a province of the FORMER USA.

*************

Other than that, what is there to say? I don't really matter... My vote doesn't even count. ***
And who really cares what I think! So I'm free to think anything.

***

The broader story: it's NOT about "me" or my ego or seeing my name in print... I'm a fleeting ephemeral whirlwind of energy patterns and I will soon be gone...

It IS about many m...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Santorum & Chertoff

First Rick Santorum & now Chertoff - head of "Homeland Security" - have uttered vague sounding THREATS that if the American public does not get on the Bushite train to hell, there WILL BE a 'terrorist attack' in the US in coming months.

Typically these attacks have taken place when "an EXERCISE" was taking place - (this was the caser on 9/11 and in the London transit bombings) so be aware of planned "preparedness exercises" in your local area and take necessary action or precautions.

Our local Republican Congresscritter (Field Marshall and former Gestapo chief, David Reichert) sent out his quarterly self-promotional direct mailer recently. It was a cover-to-cover appeal to fear and terror attempting to give voters the idea that ONLY Republicans can protect der homeland for zee evil terrorists.

Considering the continued threats issued from inside Republican ranks it would be easy to suspect they are planning a new attack inside US borders to shore up their point - HOWEVER - wouldn't such an attack just as well. expose their FAILURE to protect zee homeland despite all their machinations via zee "Patriot Act," illegal snooping, renditions, Gitmo, two wars, et al?

Watch for the strike they are planning right now should a Democrat win der Weis Haus in the next election cycle. This new "terror attack" will, in their twisted logic, demonstrate to the American people that the Democrats are WEAK on defense.

by mrk * (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 295 comments) on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 4:41:57 PM

Mushroom cloud foretold.

I can still hear Condi Rice and George W. warning that the "next time it could be a mushroom cloud". Do you think maybe Cheney and Rummy let 'em in on a secret?

Nahhhh.... Surely they were merely saying what they were told to say.

by John (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 29 comments) on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 11:59:51 PM