The Next Terror Attack on US Soil

[Beetwasher]

Will be touted as a great success of US policy because we're "bringing the terrorists out in the open! When they launch a suicide attack it accomplish two of our goals 1. The terrorists die, so we're getting rid of them and 2. It flushes them out of their holes and exposes their network"

Just you watch, you heard it here first. I'm not saying this spin will work, but I can just hear them saying this...

[Minstrel Boy]

1. Didn't Rummy admit to the strategy of

actually provoking attacks in order to flush them out?

"Are people gonna die? You bet."

[gkdmaths]

2. I can hear the

gov't voices over the louspeakers now:

...All civilians must remain still untill all of the terrorists have blown themselves up...together we will win the war on terrorism..."

[gristy]

3. Huh?

Any terror attack on U.S. soil is going to hurt bush. Look at what you've written. It's just silly. Fresh air and a walk might help.

[Beetwasher]

5. Sigh. Did I say it wouldn't be bad for Bush?

Re-read what I wrote...I'm just predicting the spin, not qualifying it...Reading comprehension 101 might help...

[gristy]

10. OK, I'll be more clear

Any attempt at the type of spin you suggest will also be bad for bush.

[Beetwasher]

12. Doesn't mean they won't try...

They've been doing lot's of idiotic stuff lately that's bad for Bush...Does "There's no link between SH and 9/11 and we never said there was" ring a bell? How about "It's only 16 words"? I'm just calling it as I see it.

"Any terror attack on U.S. soil is going to hurt bush."

That says nothing about the spin and that was your original comment. It had nothing to do with you not being clear enough. If you want to backtrack and change your position to you think the spin will be bad for Bush, fine, but that's not what you said or meant originally. You need to lighten up Chester and stop being condescending.

[paradisiac]

4. I think it would backfire

on them in a major way. I think the window of opportunity for that type of spurious rationalization is slowly but surely closing.

[newyawker99]

13. Hi paradisiac!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Yesterday at the UN

W listed about 10 different major terrorist attacks that have taken place since 9-11. Seems like his war or terror is a huge success. We've gone from one major terrorist attack every couple of years to at least 5 per year. Way to go W.

[Don_G]

7. And They (ShrubCo) Said It Couldn't Be Done

<sarcasm off>

[Clete]

8. You forgot that it will raise Adolf Bush's popularity

again by making him look like a hero. It also puts citizens in the right state of terror and fear that enables those in power to gain even more power at the expense of our liberty. I often wondered why Israelis keep electing Sharon. This is the reason why. God help us.

[forgethell]

9. Nope

it will lead to a call for ethnic profiling, unless they can get a blond Irish convert to Islam to conduct the terrorist act. It will lead to a greater rollback of limits on criminal procedures. And it will lead to a big surge in GWB's popularity as the sheeple flock to the man who "will protect them"

[boxster]

11. Too funny

And probably dead-on accurate. I can't believe the stuff that comes out of people in this administration.

These are the same people who are now telling us there was no link between 9/11 & Saddam and telling us it was never about getting rid of Saddam, even though we have a $25 million bounty on his head.