scared yet?
So the Bush camp is still talking about ways to delay or even cancel the next presidential elections in the event of a terrorist attack. They're so excited about this possibility that they've basically given any potential terrorists a calendar to follow: the August surprise, or Sept 11, or the week before the elections. I've never seen this administration more happy than when they talk about possible future terrorist attacks.
Speaking of schedules, they've even told Pakistan that it would be just peachy if they could deliver up top al-Queda people during the first three days of the Democratic National Convention, to steal the thunder from Kerry's bid. Isn't freedom and democracy *fun*?
Other relevant election bits: once Florida was forced to make public the voter expulsion list that was used to fuck up the last elections, it was discovered that the list was so error-filled that they just threw the whole thing out. Turns out (mere coincidence, I'm sure) that the list of 47000 people largely consisted of people who were black, likely to vote democrat, erroneously labeled as felons, or all of the above, while another known list of thousands of hispanic (who tend to vote republican in Florida) felons was somehow 'accidently' left out. Jeb Bush is being praised for repairing this glaring problem in the voting apparatus by a press that has somehow managed to forget that he's the one who fucked it up in the first place.
And, to no thinking person's surprise (and therefore to the disbelief of much of the US), the Senate's report on the 'intelligence failures' (which inexplicably fails to mention the most important intelligence failure, the president himself) shows that there was no, as in zero, legitimate information that justified the war in Iraq. This was even pointed out at the time by White House analysts, who were told by senior CIA officials that the administration didn't really care if the information was true or not, the war was going to happen either way.
Anyone surprised?
Speaking of schedules, they've even told Pakistan that it would be just peachy if they could deliver up top al-Queda people during the first three days of the Democratic National Convention, to steal the thunder from Kerry's bid. Isn't freedom and democracy *fun*?
Other relevant election bits: once Florida was forced to make public the voter expulsion list that was used to fuck up the last elections, it was discovered that the list was so error-filled that they just threw the whole thing out. Turns out (mere coincidence, I'm sure) that the list of 47000 people largely consisted of people who were black, likely to vote democrat, erroneously labeled as felons, or all of the above, while another known list of thousands of hispanic (who tend to vote republican in Florida) felons was somehow 'accidently' left out. Jeb Bush is being praised for repairing this glaring problem in the voting apparatus by a press that has somehow managed to forget that he's the one who fucked it up in the first place.
And, to no thinking person's surprise (and therefore to the disbelief of much of the US), the Senate's report on the 'intelligence failures' (which inexplicably fails to mention the most important intelligence failure, the president himself) shows that there was no, as in zero, legitimate information that justified the war in Iraq. This was even pointed out at the time by White House analysts, who were told by senior CIA officials that the administration didn't really care if the information was true or not, the war was going to happen either way.
Anyone surprised?
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