I am positively paranoid : what if they not only used the Cartoon game

[BelgianMadCow]

to scare Europe into support for an Iran strike, but added in a little bird flu on the side?

They are reporting a week-by-week creeping of bird deaths due to bird flu over here in Europe. From Turkey to Italy.

Somehow, it feels like an anthrax scare to me...

[helderheid]

1. Life is truly stranger than fiction!!

:scared:

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

2. What If They Used The Cheney Shooting As An Analogy For War and Bird Flu?

What if the rainstorm tomorrow is a message to the Iranians that dark days are ahead?

What if... ....ah forget it. This is just silly.

[BelgianMadCow]

3. I agree this is can be seen as silly

and it is your right to call it that.

I hope I don't have to take your reply to mean that I can not post about my fears here at DU.

I take it you would put such a thing past them?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. No, You Can Post Whatever You Want, And I'll Reply With My Opinion.

Kinda the jist of how message boards work.

And though I don't put anything past them, one must still use reasoning, deduction and logic to discern what is likely and what is not.

This is not likely, and not everything is a conspiracy theory.

[SPKrazy]

5. Throw A Little Bird Flu On The Side?

Bird flu was and still is only contagious from close contact with birds.

Are you suggesting that someone is salting the bird flocks with bird flu?

People that live, work, (or play) with birds that might be infected run the risk of getting the bird flu.

Until that changes, I'm not going to go off anymore paranoid than I already am.

I don't live in Europe though, so maybe that's a prevalent thought over there?

Europe should probably be more worried about it's decline in population and industry, it's growth of Muslim immigrants which seems to include a lot of angry ones (apparently), and it's loss of tax base to support it's previously wonderful social support network.

I read in Newsweek that Europeans are in the not too distant future to have a significant decline in the standard of living due to the loss of population, industry, and tax base.

[BelgianMadCow]

6. I agree that it's unlikely from a motive point of view

they want support for the war on terror, and although bird flu could terrorize the minds it would not, directly, increase the support for war on terra.

Not a pretty picture you paint for Europe but one that I believe in since about half a year. Our system is breaking down.

Thanks for bringing some sanity. And no, it's not a prevalent thought.
No one has pointed too / is aware of the Cartoon - PNAC connection either, I shall focus on spreading THAT message. :-)

"I'm not going to go off anymore paranoid than I already am"

[sasha031]

7. I don't think your paranoid

In this climate, everythimng is suspect, it's dated last week but it might solve some of your suspictions

Rotten in Denmark
Flemming Rose and the clash of civilizations
The publication of 12 cartoons in Jyllands-Posten, a Danish right-wing newspaper, that caricatured the prophet Muhammad was clearly a provocation – and it has had its intended effect. The editor responsible claims the genesis of the cartoons was the alleged reluctance of artists to illustrate an upcoming children's biography of Muhammad: they are supposedly too afraid to step forward, fearing violent retaliation. All this before anyone had so much as raised their voices over the matter: now, of course, the subject dominates headlines throughout much of Europe and the Middle East.

Riots throughout the Muslim world, demands for the expulsion of the Danish ambassador from a number of countries, attacks on the Danish (and Norwegian) embassies in Beirut and Damascus – this incident couldn't have roiled relations between Islam and the West more if it had been planned that way, which raises the question: was it? Is something rotten in the state of Denmark? We don't know, and probably will never know, but it is worthwhile looking into the origins of this particular incident, because a very definite odor is wafting in from the general direction of Copenhagen.
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8512