Congressman Conyers: A Coordinated Attack, By the White House [View All]

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The British Intelligence service, MI-5, deserves heaps of praise for uncovering the plot to bomb airliners departing from London. What is very disturbing, however, is learning that the White House had planned to profit politically from this event well before the arrests were made public.

What kind of an indictment of the American media that we need to look to a French newspaper to report on the details of the White House plan. From the Agence France-Presse (by way of AmericaBlog:

Weighed down by the unpopular war in Iraq, Bush and his aides have tried to shift the national political debate from that conflict to the broader and more popular global war on terrorism ahead of November 7 congressional elections....

His remarks came a day after the White House orchestrated an exceptionally aggressive campaign to tar opposition Democrats as weak on terrorism, knowing what Democrats didn't: News of the plot could soon break.

We learn more of the White House's plans:

(A) senior White House official said that the British government had not launched its raid until well after Cheney held a highly unusual conference call with reporters to attack the Democrats as weak against terrorism....

And still more indications of the motive at play here:

"Weeks before September 11th, this is going to play big," said another White House official, who also spoke on condition of not being named, adding that some Democratic candidates won't "look as appealing" under the circumstances.

Why can't the Republican party put the safety of American citizens first? Why do Republicans first think of political advantage when our nation is at risk? It's time for leadership that will boldly fight terrorism and bolster our homeland security instead of promoting fear as a political prop.

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http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/08/white-house-official-gleeful-that.html
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060810/pl_afp/britainattacksairline_060810185330