Posted on 05/17/2004 2:52:40 PM PDT by Nexus
5/24/04
Washington Whispers
From the White House, a nightmare scenario
White House officials say they've got a "working premise" about terrorism and the presidential election: It's going to happen. "We assume," says a top administration official, "an attack will happen leading up to the election." And, he added, "it will happen here." There are two worst-case scenarios, the official says.
The first posits an attack on Washington, possibly the Capitol, which was believed to be the target of the 9/11 jet that crashed in Pennsylvania.
Theory 2: smaller but more frequent attacks in Washington and other major cities leading up to the election.
To prepare, the administration has been holding secret antiterrorism drills to make sure top officials know what to do. "There was a sense," says one official involved in the drills, "of mass confusion on 9/11. Now we have a sense of order." Unclear is the political impact, though most Bushies think the nation would rally around the president. "I can tell you one thing," adds the official sternly, "we won't be like Spain," which tossed its government days after the Madrid train bombings.
We need to pray real hard for wisdom and sobriety for our political leaders in the coming months.
No need for name calling here. We appreciate civil discourse. We welcome your opinions, but there is no need to insult others who may differ.
In the U.S. I think a terrorist attack would be the exact oppossite of Spain. Americans would vote the law and order party - Republicans.
The sad and sick part of all of this, I firmly believe that the media, Democrats and the Presidents enemies from the fringes are already planning on how to turn such an attack to their political advantage.
Daughter #2 just accepted a teaching job within the beltway for this fall. Something else for midwest father to worry about?!
He's not a bad man, just a bad scientist.
True, and i apologize for surrendering to the impulse.
(But sometimes they just seem to deserve it)
Still, will try to keep thiings 'civil', provocations notwithstanding.
Okay, but I don't think we have enough prayer if we include Teddy.
Does that make me a bad straight man? And you a bad comedian?
This is an interesting question.
We have received many appropriate warnings from former Spanish PM Aznar about this and I am also sure that many people have independently considered this possibility.
I don't think AQ could repeat the Spanish experience by attacking just before the elections. I think it's far more likely that they would have their maximum effect by doing a major strike (not little ones, but a significant strike) at least a month prior to the election.
The most important thing in Spain was not the attack, but the press reaction to the attack. It was highly orchestrated - because the press is leftist and had always hated Aznar - and was coordinated with the Socialists, other more extreme left-wing parties, and the "peace" movement.
This is exactly what would happen here. But we seem to do things in increments, so I think it would take about a month for the press and the left to blame the whole thing on Bush, set Fat Teddy out to squeal, call on Fat Michael (Moore) for some deluded paranoid ravings (as Almodovar did in Spain after March 11),and get the starlets out to lead a "peace" parade. Then Kerry would walk into the job.
They allow half the world in here, millions of them illegally from God knows where, and now they tell us, "An attack will happen". LOL. I presume it wont be from the Iraqi Air Force. Sheesh......
"an attack would not help Bush at all..."
How would it help an unproven commodity like Kerry? We know that Bush wouldn't roll over like Clinton (and Kerry). He would strike back and harder.
Perhaps I'm both too cynical and too pessimistic, but I wouldn't be so sure. The election is now under six months away. One thing we can be sure of: the President's enemies will lay it on thicker and thicker and thicker as the months and weeks tick down. So far this year, the so-called mainstream media have carried their shilling for the Dems to new lows, and most Dems have carried their lust for power to near depravity. Who knows who may be manipulating what behind the scenes of the oil and stock markets in order to affect our election. And, of course, we can count on the terrorists to try to repeat their Spanish "success."
Very, very scary times, indeed, and my faith is weak that the American electorate will stay the course.
Depends on where the attacks occur. If they hit New Jersey or San Francisco or the granola crunchers in Seattle, I'd bet you'd be right. But let them try that crap in Texas, or Georgia or here in Florida and see what happens when a citizen with a CCW permit cuts them down. That's a certainty. At some point, somebody is going to forcefully show the RATS the true meaning of the 2nd Amendment and maybe the rest of the country will come to their senses. Unless, of course they fall victim to liberal whining about "assault weapons."
They are gonna try and kill Bush. I'm convinced of that.
Does this mean that if there is a terrorist strike that Hitlery had prior knowledge of it's plan?
IF something does happen will she be looked at as a co-conspirator?
Shall I quote him before he says it?
"This administartion has failed, yet again, to take the steps necessary to protect our nation from terrorist attacks on our own soil. Twice now, Bush has stood by while Americans are killed, choosing instead to alienate our allies and the international community with our unilateral etc, etc..."
And on the networks, much the same sort of thing.
An attack would hurt all of America, but there's a good chance that the Left would be better poised to take advantage of it.
"Bush's policies are not working; we need a new, etc, etc."
The problem is that the terrorists never put themselves anywhere where we can fight back. In the case of suicide bombers (such as the 9/11 terrorists), they're dead, and all links with their sponsors are also dead or at any rate very hard to track.
I'm not sure that we'd know where to look for the guilty parties in a new terrorist attack. (It would be tempting, and I live in FL too, so I know what you mean.)
But I think Americans in general, not only on the Krunchy Koasts, but just the average Americans you work with, have been so undermined by the press, particularly in the last year, that I honestly don't think we'd see the same unified reaction this time that we saw to 9/11.
Granted, I may be excessively pessimistic about this, but that's my sense of things. The Dems have done everything possible to destroy Americans' self-respect, independence, and courage, and unfortunately, I think they've done a very good job of it.
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