ALTERMAN: It’s official. Iraq was never a terrorist threat to the USA...

[LittleApple81]

It’s official. Iraq was never a terrorist threat to the United States, and now is, thanks to the Bush administration.
• July 8, 2004 | 1:46 PM ET

A Terrorist Woodstock
It’s official. Iraq was never a terrorist threat to the United States, and now is, thanks to the Bush administration. I wonder how the 883 American families who’ve lost children, daddies, mommies, etc, and the thousands of soldiers who’ve lost limbs feel to have sacrificed themselves in order to create a terrorist haven where there was none before.

And this from the Center for American Progress:

Americans agree Osama bin Laden and his followers must be captured as quickly as possible. But according to an explosive new report in The New Republic, the White House is now demanding that the Pakistanis find high-value al Qaeda targets like Osama bin Laden before the November elections, preferably coinciding with the key events of the White House's political opponents. As one Pakistani intelligence source said, the country has been specifically told by the Bush administration that "it would be best if the arrest or killing of were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July" - the first three days of the Democratic National Convention in Boston. The article points out pressure to find terrorists “would be appropriate, even laudable, had it not been accompanied by an unseemly private insistence that the Pakistanis deliver these high-value targets before Americans go to the polls in November.” The article notes that “no timetable(s) were discussed in 2002 or 2003" — but according to a Pakistani Interior Ministry official, the Bush administration wants Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf "to bail them out when they face hard times in the coming election." See more on the White House's long history of using the war on terror for its own political gain in this previous Progress Report.”


more at link (it is rather a potpourri)


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

[displacedtexan]

1. Forget to end your strike tag?

/strike

[LittleApple81]

3. No. The article had an "s" surrounded by [ ]. n/t

[ElementaryPenguin]

2. Why does Eric Alterman hate America so?

And he's fat!!! Well, no, he isn't...he's, he's thin actually. He's...he's probably gay then!! Gay and trying to destroy America!