Don't Do Al Qaeda's Work for It (parroting fatalism)

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Don't Do Al Qaeda's Work for It

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/ewarnings;_ylt=AsF33FQJnOWxTK9PsrIv1yce6sgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4MzQ0N2p2BHNlYwMxNzA0

The Monitor's View Tue Aug 2, 4:00 AM ET

"It's not a matter of if, but when." This fatalistic phrase, used to describe an unquestioned inevitability to another Al Qaeda-related attack, is being parroted around the world as if it were rock-solid truth.

Vice President Dick Cheney used it back in May 2002, when US intelligence officials pointed to the potential for new attacks in the US. Police in London said it after - and before - the July 7 transit bombs.

"The clock is ticking," said Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff in a speech last week. Now police chiefs in Seattle and Los Angeles are mouthing similar lines. And during last year's campaigns, many politicians resorted to this kind of be-very-afraid rhetoric.

Spreading mood of fatalism
So it's not surprising that the public at large is repeating it. One wire reporter, scoping out the public mood in Rome the day after the London bombing, described an atmosphere of fatalism. "The thing is, it's not a matter of if, but when and where, there will be an attack on Italy," Nicolo, a Milanese lawyer on a business trip to Rome, told the journalist.

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1. I absolutely agree. We are playing into their hands. By 'their' I mean

Cheney and gang. It is absolute cooperation for what they want to happen. That means another reason to raise the approval poll results. it also means another reason to move forward on our loss of rights - another notch in the Patriot Act - another notch to control everything in our lives. For them it is USSR and Nazi control all the way.

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2. This rhetoric is especially helpful....

to Repugs running for office.

We were told before the last "election" that we'd all die if we didn't vote for DUH-bya. Thank goodness he's in the WH, or we'd all be dead! :sarcasm:

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3. all the more proof al Qaeda is a wholly-owned subisidiary of the BFEE

What no one asks is why they're repeating it. It's a psyop and/or propaganda. i.e. they're complicit, if not overtly responsible.