Daily Kos: Something wicked this way comes

[SittingBull]

Let's begin with Libby's Ode to the Aspens.

Libby wants Miller to come back to life; to cover other stories for greater glories. And what are those stories?


You went to jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover -- Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program.

This jumped out at me the first time I read Scooter's Ode to fearless reporting and selfless sacrifice.

Iraqi elections and suicide bombers go hand in hand. They are past, present and future. These stories are real and ongoing.

But how about biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program? They're linked in the same way grammatically, as elections and jihadists, but really what is he talking about? What biological threats? It's no secret Libby and his ilk want to use force, if necessary, to halt Iran's nuclear program for fear, real or imagined, of atomic weaponry. But he speaks with certainty about biological threats in the same literary breath as the Iranian nuclear program. Is he talking warfare, terrorism, bird flu?

More:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/6/181125/576

[stepnw1f]

1. This Fear Mongering Shit Has Got to Stop

We may as well read tea leaves to freak everyone out. Things are bad enough when a political party uses terror alerts to scare people into distraction. What does this crap do? Inform us? Nope.

[SittingBull]

2. Eventually this could stop their plans

imagine we exposed their new Pearl Harbor dreams before 9-11

[greenman3610]

3. this is delusional

I was distressed when I read this on Kos, that
someone was spending their time on it, and that
any posters were taking it seriously. ( there were a
few..)
I'm as open to conspiracies as the
next guy, but this is
paranoid and delusional.

[klebean]

4. oh but it's a wonderful read

great use of the english language (which incidentally, while watching Good Night and Good Luck last night with friends, we all agreed was acutely conspicuous in Murrow's dialog/monologues, in sharp contrast to what tv viewers experience today).

Plus - "something wicked" includes some great links; I remember reading stories in LA's underground papers of bases being converted to detainee camps/prisons in 1984; the stories were always associated with the issue of privatizing prisons.

[Journeyman]

5. The detainee prison camps were a hot topic in the late '60s, too. . .

n/t (because I've no desire to feed the paranoia)

[drb]

6. Keep this motto in mind when it comes to dealing with...

...the Bushistas:

"No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up."