NYT Editorial (5 years too late?) "The Politics Of Fear-Always Be Afraid & Don't ??? The President"

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Editorial
The Politics of Fear

Published: July 18, 2007
It had to happen. President Bush’s bungling of the war in Iraq has been the talk of the summer. On Capitol Hill, some of the more reliable Republicans are writing proposals to force Mr. Bush to change course. A showdown vote is looming in the Senate.

Enter, stage right, the fear of terrorism.

Yesterday, the director of national intelligence released a report with the politically helpful title of “The Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland,” and Fran Townsend, the president’s homeland security adviser, held a news conference to trumpet its findings. The message, as always: Be very afraid. And don’t question the president.

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The White House denied that the report was timed to the Senate debate. But the administration controls the timing of such releases and the truth is that fear of terrorism is the only shard remaining of Mr. Bush’s justification for invading Iraq.

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That must not happen this time. By now, Congress surely can see through the president’s fear-mongering and show Mr. Bush the exit from Iraq that he refuses to find for himself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/opinion/18wed1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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1. This bullcrap all started on 9/12

if all the republicans have is fear they are truly losers