W's mixed message?

[apnu]

I've been thinking about this one and its a puzzler. The chimp says that we are "safer" but the terror threat is elevated and there is talk of suspending the election.

This doesn't make sense and I don't think the voters will find this very sensible either.

How can it be that the chimp says we are safer when Ridge says we are not?

Maybe they are hedging their bets?

Doesn't make sense, if we are safer because of Iraq, (I'm being rhetorical here, I know the realities of Iraq) then we don't need to cancel the election.

If the terror threat is real, then why run around the nation saying that we are safer because of Iraq?