October? Nope- the July Surprise.

[StephNW4Clark]

"Just to pass on some added information, about which we'll be saying more. There is chatter in Pakistani intelligence circles that the US has let the Pakistanis know that the optimal time for bagging 'high value' al Qaida suspects in the untamed Afghan-Pakistani border lands is the last ten days of July, 2004."

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Conveniently placed around the Democratic Convention, right?

[WMliberal]

1. i'm sure the next most optimal times

are right before the GOP convention and mid-october.

[Frodo]

2. Oh boy. THAT would be "inconvenient".

"What were we supposed to do? Let him go so it didn't look politica"?

All the speeches would have to be changed to "obviously this is a good thing 'but'" etc.

Can't imagine there would be any way to prove it. But it would certainly mute any convention bounce we would otherwise get (and strengthen their expected "2nd convention" bounce for 9/11/04).

[tom_paine]

3. Well, that would be in keeping with Double October Surprise

Drown out the Dem Convention in July.

Raygun conveniently "dies" (i.e. Busheviks slip him something or just shut his food off, happens in old folks homes all the time) in October.

[Dinger]

7. I've been wondering if Ray-Gun Is Alive Myself

If he dies, the sympathy vote could take some badly needed votes. Besides, was it me, or did Nancy look really sad and depressed yesterday? Yes, believe me I know what it is to care for someone with Alzheimer's, and what it does to a person. but maybe he's already dead??? Just some of Ding's weird musings . . Who knows?

[tom_paine]

8. No, I think he's still alive

When they want him dead (not the Rayguns, the Busheviks), he'll be dead.

As I said, for Alzheimer's Patients, time of death is almost arbitrary as thing deteriorate so badly that they could die anytime, really, but it's just a matter of removing the feeding tubes for some trumped up reason.

Or having one of your Operatives dressed as a Male Nurse do the Wellstone-with-a-needle to ol' Ronnie.

His last sacrifice for the Imperial Bushevik cause, much like Horst Wessel's last act for Grandpa Prescott's Business Partners.

[Gman]

4. This is what I expect

and I would hope the Dems would be sending Madeline Albright (a la Bush I in 1980 to London to meet with the Iranians) to meet with Pakistani officials to see if she can head this off.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

5. I agree with you on this.

[kath]

6. The Dem. Convention is July 26-29th. Big surprise, no?

[PATRICK]

9. Some very big horse trading going on

Sharon and Musharraf get whopping gifts far beyond any benign policy justification. When the Pakistanis blew the last attempted round up it was during the nuke flap.

Israel will produce WMD's in Iraq. The Pakistanis will produce some Bin Laden or other or some other bigshot. A unitive terrorist hit may be tried again. Just imagine yourself tailoring one keeping in mind the backfire in Madrid. Maybe they will take out a symbol, safely bloodless but completely maddening.

That is unless you think these guys will just be talking trade deals over canasta during the summer.

On the other hand it may be their are enough good guys awake to stop these madmen from even dreaming they could succeed/