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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 05:36 AM
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Bush and Blair: "We have nothing to sell but fear itself."
George and Tony Get their al-Qaeda Fix
Monday, July 11, 2005
By Greg Palast

....I'm not belittling the heartbreaking hideousness of this crime, but let's get the facts straight. If al-Qaeda is the Panzer Division of terrorism, these London bombers were terrorism's Cub Scouts.

....It's not al-Qaeda, but for George and Tony, it's good enough. Blair's Foreign Secretary dramatically dashed out to tell us that the explosions had the "hallmarks of al-Qaeda." Our Commander in Chief, looking as commanding as possible (no reading of kiddie stories this time), could not have been more satisfied.

The "hallmarks of al-Qaeda"? That's not true and Blair knows it. And Bush knows it. And that's no little matter, my friends.

Because Blair and Bush are al-Qaeda junkies. They've sold us on everything from fingerprinting five-year olds to invading Baghdad to tolerating plummeting paychecks all on the slick line that we are under attack by a well-trained, well-armed, well-funded hidden army called al-Qaeda.

....Now, with world media all jumped up on its latest fear high, Bush and Blair can resume their sales pitch: more weaponry, less liberty.

FDR calmed a nation when he said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." But the Bush and Blair slogan is, "We have nothing to sell but fear itself."


More at: http://www.gregpalast.com/

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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 05:58 AM
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1. Too right! That attack HAD to happen in England.
Would've been too politically risky for it to happen in the US, after all the noise the Regime has made about being the only ones who can protect us from terra.

And it's beginning to look like LIHOP/MIHOP in London, same as it was/is here. If Blair let the BFEE sell him on the benefits to his poll numbers from a terra attack, he's about a world-class dumbass.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 06:29 AM
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2. I don't think it had to happen there but
they are certainly milking it for all it's worth.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 10:35 AM
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3. Death to this thread
:nopity:
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