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Senate Democrats criticized the Bush administration for its warning that another terrorist attack could come in the next week, without giving any specifics. “As if we’re not on high alert already,” Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) said after Director of the Office of Homeland Security Tom Ridge briefed Senate Democrats. “It provokes its own level of panic.”

I predicted this last night on Post #18 of this thread...... :-)

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Last night I wrote:

"I disagree that making public a generic threat that someone, somewhere, at some future date planned to highjack an aircraft (in the traditional pre-911 meaning of the word) would have saved a single life.

Aircraft highjackings have been going on since the 1960's. What, exactly, would anyone have done differently? Avoid air travel? Implement post-911 security measures in a pre-911 world?

If post-911 security had been implemented, the Democrats would have howled about "fear mongering". If special measures were taken to monitor young Muslim men, the Democrats would have thrown out the Racist Ethnic Profiling Card.

Now, we have generic threats of possible future shopping mall bombings. What, exactly, do the Democrats propose President Bush do to prevent such a future bombing?

Bomb detectors and metal detectors at shopping malls? Watch the Democrats accuse Bush of sabotaging the economic recovery. Extra vigilance for Muslims? Watch the Democrats throw out the Race Card.

Just for the record, Islamic terrorists in the unspecified future will try to:

1. Poison some American city's water supply.
2. Bomb some tunnel during rush hour.
3. Attack American military targets somewhere in the world.
4. Attack American tourists somewhere in the world.
5. Bomb an American airliner somewhere in the world.
6. Poison American food supplies somewhere.
7. Bomb an American bridge somewhere during rush hour.
8. Bomb a some American sports event.
9. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

One week after any of those events happen, we will all, with 20/20 hindsight, know exactly what could have been done to prevent the tragedy. Monday Morning Quaterbacking always yields the correct solution to any problem."