Posted on 04/16/2013 7:24:03 AM PDT by Windy City Conservative
In explaining why President Obama didn't call the Boston bombings a "terrorist attack," former adviser David Axelrod said, "I'm sure what was going through the president's mind is -- we really don't know who did this -- it was tax day":
"The word has taken on a different meaning since 9/11," Axelrod said of the phrase "terrorist attack."
"You use those words and it means something very specific in people's mind. And I'm sure what was going through the president's mind is -- we really don't know who did this -- it was tax day. Was it someone who was pro--you know, you just don't know. And so I think his attitude is, let's not put any inference into this, let's just make clear that we're going to get the people responsible."
Who is blaming it on Palin? I haven’t heard that one yet.
Now saying pressure cookers used as basis for directional shrapnel
looks like Al-Qaeda
One of the three devices that was to be used in an attempted bomb attack in Times Square in 2010 was a pressure cooker. Earlier that year, terrorists used a pressure cooker bomb in an attack in Pakistan. And in 2006, more than 130 people were killed on the transit system of Mumbai, India, when pressure cookers loaded with explosives were placed on trains.
http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/16/a-short-history-of-pressure-cooker-bombs/
News organizations are reporting that authorities in Boston believe at least one of the explosive devices in Boston was a pressure cooker. (Yes, like the closed pot you might use to cook rice at home.) As it happens, pressure cookers have a nefarious history in counterterrorism circles. In 2004, the Department of Homeland Security was concerned enough about pressure cooker bombs to issue an alert to federal and state security officials: “A technique commonly taught in Afghan terrorist training camps is the use/conversion of pressure cookers into IEDs,” the bulletin warned.
Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/16/a-short-history-of-pressure-cooker-bombs/#ixzz2QeMVXRv5
There is as much likelihood that this is about tax-day as it is that an ancestor of the Astors did it to protest the sinking of the Titanic (also April 15th).
April 15, 1936: First day of the arab revolt in palestine. 77 years ago.
... and intellectually lazy.
Baloney.
In the bamster’s pea-brain, he’s probably comparing his public reaction to this event with his public reaction to Benghazi. “See, this is how I do things, see-uh, uh, so that uh I’m uh consistent”. Betcha - he’s walking on thin ice with this one because of the way he handled Benghazi, and he knows it.
Leftists would rather cut off their own tongues than even fathom for a second that this could be the work of arabs..they can’t even bring themselves to think it
tin-foil hat time. Could there even be one that fits over O-dumbo’s ears?
“the American people will begin to cry out for more government protection”
Don’t think so. If anything they’ll demand that the borders get closed and will take matter in their own hands if the govt does nothing about it.
Man, that Sarah really gets around. LOL. She musta removed the moose from her pressure cooker and took off for Boston.
This is really stupid.
Why do we need more government protection? After all, this is a dismal failure of the current government. They still have not caught the bomber and seem to be clueless as to who done it.
This is an embarrassing failure of the Obama admin.
No use wondering about the obvious.
It couldn’t be Al Qaeda because His Mightiness has personally defeated them already.
Obama does the Tea Party inference.
“Remember when the Austin Barking Moonbat flew a plan into the IRS building there? The Left was quick to point fingers at the Right and slow to reflect on their own extremists.”
I didn’t know that guys was a moonbat.
TEA Partiers, Amish and Jooos! Oh, my.
So. When we find out who did this (I don’t care why, it’s not important) is this a test case for Eric “we won’t use drones on US soil” Holder? And given the pictures everyone has seen, would the sheep even care to be outraged?
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