The Bush Terror Hoax

[unhappycamper]

The Bush Terror Hoax
The Nation, Pakistan
By Ghulam Asghar Khan
August 2, 2007


The latest Bush Administration hoax is another crusade to sow fear and anxiety amongst Americans, based on unsubstantiated claims about a looming al-Qaeda terrorist attack. Homeland Security officials have suggested vigorously that an attack on America on the scale of 9/11 or worse is now being planned by the al-Qaeda network.

Deliberately cultivating a climate of fear is the usual modus operandi of the Bush Administration. It can't possibly be accidental that at a time when his popularity has fallen to record lows, Bush is once again resorting to scare tactics. This sudden and supposed re-emergence of al-Qaeda as a threat to the safety of U.S. citizens, just happens to coincide with a political counteroffensive by Bush's critics. As they criticize Bush's military escalation, the White House brands the critics as unpatriotic. Enterprises like the new Department of Homeland Security have already made the lives of U.S. citizens - especially Muslims - miserable.

In an interview with the Chicago Tribune on July 10, Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff said that the country was confronting a heightened threat of attack this summer. But other than a "gut feeling," he gave no evidence of such a serious risk.

A week later, the U.S. administration released an unclassified version of its 'National Intelligence Estimate ' which claimed that the U.S; was facing a "heightened threat environment" for terrorist attacks from al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan's tribal areas. As a pretext for possible military intervention in Pakistan and a justification for Washington's war policy in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush Administration immediately seized upon the Homeland Security chief's "gut report."

Exactly one week after that, Bush gave a near-hysterical speech at an air force base in South Carolina WATCH , where he insisted that withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq would result in terrorist attacks in America. That same day, U.S. Air Force General Victor Renuart, who heads the U.S. Northern Command, said that the U.S. military must triple its military force domestically to counter the growing al-Qaeda threat, which he claimed is preparing another attack on the United States.


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[tom_paine]

1. Khan forgets that the Bushies KNOW an attack is coming because they are the ones who will

at the very least LIHOP and perhaps MIHOP if the need becomes urgent.

[snappyturtle]

2. Bush is covering for his real mission......oil.

If he gets all the sheeple afeared and troop increase cited here by Gen. Renuart then the pipeline between Kirkuk to Mosul to Haifa via Jordan will be realized.

Didn't I hear last week that 20,000 more troops are being re-assigned from around the world to Iraq?Wouldn't you love to be the ears in the Oval office?