Fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over...d'oh!
On June 15, Richard Bruce Cheney was repeating the line about the Iraq war being "in part responsible" for the absence of terrorist attacks in the United States since the September 11, 2001 strikes. Well......
It has to be said that apparently this group had been infiltrated by an informant so was no real threat, but take note that CNN reports these are Americans who "are members of a radical African-American Muslim group." (a phrase so loaded with connotations from the seventies to scare the suburbanites.
Didn't I just see some polling a few days ago that the Republicans had lost alot in the suburbs and that demographic would be key for them to hold onto Congress?)
The FBI arrested seven people in the past two days suspected of planning attacks on FBI offices and a federal building in Miami and the Sears Tower in Chicago, a law enforcement source said on Thursday.
It has to be said that apparently this group had been infiltrated by an informant so was no real threat, but take note that CNN reports these are Americans who "are members of a radical African-American Muslim group." (a phrase so loaded with connotations from the seventies to scare the suburbanites.
Didn't I just see some polling a few days ago that the Republicans had lost alot in the suburbs and that demographic would be key for them to hold onto Congress?)
posted by mikevotes at
8:53 PM
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I was thinking this very thing. We're fighting them in Iraq so we don't have to fight them here, right? Yet when they(meaning al Qaeda) had a chance to fight us in Afghanistan they ran in fear of the military might of the US east into Pakistan. Only to cross two countries and start attacking us in Iraq?
And as for the seven, besides the fact that the war in Iraq hasn't made us any safer from domestic attacks, didn't Rumsfeld want to create a special intelligence team who would infiltrate groups such as these, incite them to commit acts of terrorism, so they could be arrested? I think it was a year ago he mentioned this.
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Lew Scannon, at 9:47 PM
Yeah, this sounds a bit like entrapment to me too. I decided to go another way with the post because I didn't want to do the work to look up the other cases like the one involving the missile sale in NY for instance. There have been others.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:52 PM
It's getting dangerous... My thinking I mean. Everytime I hear an official US statement, including this one, I start to roll my eyes and think: "more bullshit".
The danger is the old 'boy who cried wolf' story.
While all the disinformation, the alarm and discord is being spread, we might actually brush of a real threat.
No doubt a threat generated by the powers, but a threat all the same.
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Cartledge, at 1:30 AM
You never hear the one that gets you.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 8:44 AM
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