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And after waiting through the Labor Day weekend, with trial balloons floating about the long-awaited Osama Surprise, it's easy to see why.
Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge has issued two terror alerts during the presidential campaign. One immediately followed John Kerry's choice of John Edwards as his running mate. The other immediately followed the Democratic National Convention.
The timing could not have been more obvious. Edwards' nomination generated a huge buzz for the Democrats. But the major media instantly turned to the intricacies of Ridge's bizarre, apocalyptic scare scam.
Then came a successful DNC. Again Ridge instantly screamed out breathless tales of a terrorist wolf, while the media slobbered at the door.
Ridge had only stale snippets, with no solid evidence for an imminent attack. There was no attack, and no arrests.
I don't want to throw away my rabbit's foot.
This mystifies me, as I cannot see what such people find "lucky" or protective in George W. Bush. Yes, he did make a speech at the Statue of Liberty on the night of September 11, 2001, urging us to be brave, promising protection from further terrorist attacks and vowing Biblical revenge upon those who brought down the Twin Towers. But he was also the president who ignored multiple intelligence warnings that terrorists were planning to fly planes into tall buildings.
He is not a rabbit's foot of good fortune. To paraphrase considerably an old 60's expression, he is not the solution, he is the problem.
Michael J. Lombardi
I enjoyed your article about Bush, Hitler & Religion; I grew up in US
churches and sensed all along that they were rigged by some quasi-Nazi
group with a few tricks up its sleeve, like maybe starting war for fun and
profit...
You might already know about "ACCESS DENIED For Reasons of National
Security", just out from Mark & Cathy Phillips. They have evidence most
of the press is afraid to talk about; in fact, they were talking at one
point with Danny Casolaro, and you know what happened there.
...This is their 2nd book, their first one, published in 1995, awakened a lot of people; I have
gotten to know them well and find that their statements all check out.
Kenyon Gibson, author: "Hemp for Victory", "Commons Sense: A Study of the Bushes, the
CIA, and the Suspicions Regarding 9/11".
I have never been enthusiastic about Kerry, but like Greg Palast says, he's a slap in the face and Bush is a Brick in the head. We need to get behind Kerry. He's no progressive's dream, but he's a thousand times better than Bush.
You and your partner write superbly and I'm always proud to run your articles. I just don't get how progressives can bash their best hope of saving the US. Yes, Kerry is not filling all the categories we'd love to have in an ideal president, but at least he isn't destroying so many others, like Bush is. We all need to pull together, find the good in Kerry, sell it to the nation and then, after he's elected, push him to move left, towards more progressive positions. Before the election we need positive constructive criticism, not bitter bellyaching that demoralizes.
Rob Kall
Quote from the article mentioned in the subject line:
"With Hitler boldly proclaiming, before launching his doctrine of
preventive war against all of Europe"
Question:Who declared war on whom:
Germany to France or otherwise?
England to Germany or otherwise?
Who put his own citizens with full knowledge and intent in harms way to
stage phony reasons to declare war? Germany on America or otherwise?
The list could go on. On the other hand: Who ever met an American (or a
Greek for that matter) who knew something about anything?
regards from old Europe,
Dr. Michael Bolsinger
Germany
Quote from the article mentioned in the subject line:
"With Hitler boldly proclaiming, before launching his doctrine of
preventive war against all of Europe"
Question:Who declared war on whom:
Germany to France or otherwise?
England to Germany or otherwise?
Who put his own citizens with full knowledge and intent in harms way to
stage phony reasons to declare war? Germany on America or otherwise?
The list could go on. On the other hand: Who ever met an American (or a
Greek for that matter) who knew something about anything?
regards from old Europe,
Dr. Michael Bolsinger
Germany
When Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell halted the purchase of new electronic voting machines on July 16 after two investigations identified 57 potential software and hardware security threats, North Canton, Ohio’s Diebold Electronic Systems’ dream of a $100 million contract with the state disappeared.
And so may have Diebold CEO “Wally” O’Dell’s promise to “deliver” the Buckeye State’s electoral votes, and the presidency, to George W. Bush in Ohio. As we keep hearing in the press, no Republican candidate has ever won the presidency without Ohio’s electoral votes.
Still, the fear of the dreaded DREs (Direct Record Electronic) machines has produced political and legal skirmishes throughout this key battleground state. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Verified Voting Foundation, VotersUnite! and Citizens Alliance for Secure Elections (CASE) filed an Amicus Curiae brief in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio in late July.
I thought you wrote an excellent article and I hope that the article
receives wide attention. While Governor Schwarzenegger made the communist,
socialist, democrat connection (some may argue how subtle he was) few
appreciate fascist parallel to Bush's behavior. I thank you for clarifying
this and I hope your article receives the wide attention your article deserves.
Larry Welsch
This convention alone would be enough to convince me that John Edwards is right about “two Americas,” except I don’t think he’s gone far enough. These folks are in from another planet. They’re living in an alternative reality. When is a fact a fact to these people? When did anyone ever find evidence Saddam Hussein had dog to do with Sept. 11?
It’s all very well to claim our invasion of Iraq may yet bring about peace and democracy in the Middle East -- hey, miracles happen -- but when Rudy Giuliani assured us this “idealism” is in fact triumphing as he speaks, one must question the man’s grip on sanity. Even the president is now claiming the disastrous occupation is the result of “catastrophic success.” That seems to mean he thinks we won the war too fast.