Rhetorical Shithead !!! - Making Us Less Safe By The Moment !!!

[WillyT]

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News from London Thursday morning that British intelligence agents had foiled a potential new terrorist plot in its advanced stages prompted the highest level security alert in the United States since 9/11, and brought trans-Atlantic travel to its knees.

It was a “stark reminder,” President Bush said in his first public reaction to the events, that “this nation is at war with Islamic fascists,” seeking to destroy freedom-loving societies.

At this dramatic moment, it was not “war with terrorism,” as the president characterized events shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, or a “war on terror," as he has referred to it more commonly over time.

Instead, the war was now with “Islamic fascists” — a term that has rarely been used by the president before this week. Was it used in the heat of the moment, or was the president rolling out a new way of explaining U.S. policy — choosing new words to explain and solidify support?

The term is not new inside the Beltway. Washington’s neo-conservatives have bandied about “Islamo-fascist” and “Islamic fascism,” for months. And it's true that the president referred to the term at least once before, in a speech in October. But the president chose to use the expression pointedly at a key moment: the day after the arrests of British men of Pakistani ancestry in a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners — and almost exactly three months before congressional elections.

The phrase contrasted sharply with the words used by British officials, who went out of their way to play down the religion and ethnic background of the terror suspects, characterizing them as criminals who did not represent the majority of British Muslim citizens.

Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14304397/

Well hell man, the British don't have a American Fascist majority to protect, now do they?

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[LSparkle]

1. Thom Hartmann pointed out this a.m. how wrong it is to call it fascism

Fascism deals with melding of government and corporate interests -- not exactly the terraists we're supposedly crusading against.

[WillyT]

2. True... But It's The Rove Strategy That Seems To Be...

Accuse others of what YOU are, before they get the chance to beat you to the punch!

The * Administration ARE THE FASCISTS!!!

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