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May 27, 2004
Terrorism and the election
The Bush administration announced yesterday that there was a credible threat of terrorism against the US this summer, but made no change to the color-coded threat level.
The administration should not be surprised to find the announcement met with skepticism across the board. After three and a half years of blatant political moves and deception, the gang of 500 have little incentive to take anything at face value. So what does this announcement have to do with Bush and Kerry?
Dan Schorr sees the announcement as playing up Bush's strength (singular, as evidenced by polls) as the situation in Iraq carries the President's numbers downward.
Dana Priest called attention to the "election threat" aspect of the administration's warnings in a Washington Post online chat:
Dana Priest: I'm very suspicious, especially of the "election threat" -- so we didn't write this story for a while, in order to ask a wider range of people and certainly enough non-political types to feel certain we were not being spun.
a) Terrorists may try to influence the election
b) Terrorists want Kerry to win
c) Bush would be better against terrorists
This line of reasoning is completely ridiculous. Even if we take the terrorist endorsement of Bush with a grain of salt, the fact remains that these terrorist organizations would like nothing more than an isolated United States, mired in a conflict that swells the ranks of the terrorists and increases support for terrorist actions among the citizenry. It's clear that this administration has little comprehension of how to deal with the threat of terrorism. It's time for them to go.
Posted by glyphic at May 27, 2004 03:21 PM