CNN reports a connection between the NY alert and Iraq.

[chieftain]

The Pentagon says that an operation near Bagdad was the result of the same intelligence that led to today's brouhaha. So W may finally have his justification for invading a country that posed no serious threat to the US. Frankly, I smell a rat. The timing of this along with the connection to Iraq is exactly what I would expect from Rove as he goes down for the third (or in this case, the fourth) time.
Get ready folks. As the prospects dim for this criminal gang, the defense moves they make are going to be unprecedented, ugly and fascistic.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Here we need to get the

smell out, rat alright, dead and smelly rat

[ewagner]

2. Also

remember this morning's "stirring" :sarcasm: terror speech!

I smell a rat....a big, big, rat....

[ixion]

3. oh for the love of pete

will these idiots never shut up?

[Cha]

4. We are at the mercy of

the machiavellian bushits and the M$M..what are we going to do about it?

[OneTwentyoNine]

5. A single rat?!?! I smell a shitload of them.....

This is sooooo fucking obvious its GD LAUGHABLE. Indictments coming down almost daily,Bush's little War going badly,poll numbers tanking,Plame investigation won't go away.

But wait...that evil ole' Bin Forgotten climbed out of his hidy hole and is going to bomb the subway in NYC.

Jesus...What are Dems in DC doing? Cowering behind their desks??

[Cassandra]

6. Maybe now but...

what does anything they uncover now in Baghdad have to do with why we invaded. Those people threatening us weren't in Iraq then.

[kikiek]

7. How does this justify the invasion of Iraq?

[chieftain]

10. It doesn't. But it will be used by these lying SOB's to

bolster support for the war by making the case that our efforts over there thwarted a potential attack on the homeland. Never mind that without the invasion the threat would have been unlikely to occur.

[kikiek]

11. Honestly he has gotten us in such a mess I don't think anyone will

buy anything he is selling anymore. I think the people in this country are finally fed up.

[chieftain]

13. That's why I think they will intensify the disinformation

campaign.

[OneTwentyoNine]

8. Maybe they should report a connection between Rove and bullshit stories...

Jesus....wonder how much MORE obvious this would have to be to make a bell ring at CNN offices??

Gawd.....

[welshTerrier2]

9. war in Iraq = greater domestic threats

and so we should keep fighting in Iraq because ... ??????

if bush wants to argue that the war in Iraq is making us less safe domestically, he'll get no argument from me ... of course, that seems like the perfect reason to end the war; NOT continue it ...

[Roland99]

12. Iraq link to bin Laden found (took an invasion/occupation to CREATE it!)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8900557/site/newsweek/

[cal04]

14. anything to get more money . I hate these people

The Senate is ready to give President Bush $50 billion more for wars, even as public support for the Iraq fighting slips, the number of U.S. casualties climbs and Congress grows frustrated by the conflict's direction. The money, part of a $445 billion military spending bill for the budget year that began Oct. 1, would pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It would push the war total beyond $350 billion since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

[chieftain]

15. Greed is their core value. Everything else is a distant second.

[Catchawave]

16. I was hoping it was a link between

Bloomberg's re-election and a bullhorn moment ?!? Afterall, he said he and his family will still use the subway, what a brave, brave man!

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

17. You hit the nail on the head

Get ready folks. As the prospects dim for this criminal gang, the defense moves they make are going to be unprecedented, ugly and fascistic.

So true.