Rolling Stone: BUSH Created A FAKE WAR ON TERROR To SCARE VOTERS

[kpete]

The Phony War
President Bush not only created a fake "War on Terror" to scare voters into supporting his policies -- he is failing to address the real threat facing America

ROBERT DREYFUSS

In August, even before the official announcement that some two dozen would-be terrorists had been arrested in London, President Bush and his top advisers swung into action. Their goal was not to stop the terrorists, who were already safely behind bars, but to use the threat to justify the president's seemingly endless "War on Terror."

Vice President Dick Cheney, who had known in advance about the pending arrests, hinted darkly about the threat posed by "Al Qaeda types." The president, standing on an airport tarmac in Wisconsin the next morning, warned that the arrests were "a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists." And that afternoon, Peter Wehner, the director of the White House's Office of Strategic Initiatives, declared that America is engaged in nothing less than a "civilizational struggle" with enemies who seek "to establish a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia."

Fortunately, Wehner added, the country has a leader who knows exactly how to combat terrorism: "George W. Bush understands, with extraordinary clarity, the great struggle of our time."

The problem is, almost everything that President Bush understands about his own war on terrorism is wrong.

more at:
http://www.hoffmania.com/blog/2006/09/rollingstone_bu.html#more

[indiewave1]

1. Check this out!

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[mom cat]

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[Erika]

2. W sold out the American people completely

and never blinked twice.

[WhiteTara]

4. like all liars, he blinks constantly

because he can't look anyone in the eye. But yeah, the bastard sold us out for sure.

[me b zola]

3. k&r

The Dreyfuss painting is perfect.

[darkmaestro019]

5. "By failing to smoke out...."

"By failing to "smoke out" bin Laden as promised, the president has given hope to a new generation of freelance terrorist cells, Islamist copycats and Al Qaeda wanna-be's"

I was thinking exactly this while looking at the Top Ten Conservative Idiots a few minutes ago--boy, it's nice to know you'll bash in my front door STAT! for a couple of non-toxic plants, but if I become a supervillian I'll have at least five years to neener at you about it. That's my problem...I'm in the wrong line of evil...

:argh:

[Botany]

6. but they want to kill my puppy

great piece of work

[Bjorn Against]

8. Go watch the movie "Wag the Dog" again

Lets just say it holds up very well, and is quite relevant to this article.