Pgh Post Gazette: No stopping election / The terrorists win if Nov. 2 poll

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04195/345431.stm

As America's electoral calendar accelerates toward November, Bush administration officials are becoming increasingly active in promoting the idea that terrorists will take election events as the occasion for another attack.

Now we learn also that the administration is looking at legal steps to postpone the elections if an attack occurs.

It is thus time to look at exactly what might be in their minds. Could it be this? National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Vice President Dick Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller -- all of whom have been involved in public speculation on this issue -- announce to the population in a late "October surprise" that a plot has been discovered that justifies raising the threat level to red. On that basis, the Nov. 2 elections are postponed until security conditions are such that they can be held. "War president" George W. Bush remains in power in the meantime.

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Without digging up bones, the Bush administration also has as part of its antecedents the 2000 Florida fiasco, in the view of many a successful theft of the presidency. Does it defy belief to imagine that this administration, if it were faced by a likely victory by Sen. John Kerry in November, might not look at options to not having to leave office in January?

[fearnobush]

1. This Op Ed falls in line with tonight's Daily Show, Except

the Daily Show went in to a bit more specific detail on how it was stolen - fake news of course?

[ima_sinnic]

2. excellent piece! I especially like this part:

On the surface of it, legitimate, solid intelligence might be indicating now that al-Qaida, sore Iraqis or others consider that some of the electoral events might provide interesting targets for another act of terrorism in the American homeland. In that case, prudence suggests that contingency planning be carried out to figure out what might be done to assure that the elections take place in 2004 as scheduled, as they have for the past 215 years, in spite of the Civil War and two world wars.

But the Bush administration doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt on this subject. Its use of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war, misinterpreting whatever it had on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and alleged links with al-Qaida, makes any "intelligence" it would put forward to support an effort to postpone the elections very suspect.

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and the writer makes the point very well that a real LEADER would have the balls, the intelligence, and the class (all of which are severely lacking in you-know-who) to figure out a way for elections to proceed, come hell or high water, no matter what.
This'd be the ultimate chickensh** move on Bush's part--so inept, so threatened, and so desperate all he can do is "postpone" legitimate elections and hope the people are too stupid to see through it.

[struggle4progress]

3. Whoa! Mainstream media are raising concerns about Mad King George ...

... that not too long ago might have been considered tin-foil hat material: "Does it defy belief to imagine that this administration, if it were faced by a likely victory by Sen. John Kerry in November, might not look at options to not having to leave office in January?"

<edit:> It's good to hear these voices.