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Commentary: Former Homeland Security Secretary: Alerts faked

by smkovalinsky | August 20, 2009 at 05:15 pm

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It's nice to know that one's instincts are correct. I recall all those "high alerts" in the New York City area in the months prior to the 2004 election. I - and most people I knew - were suspicious. They rang hollow; they were transparent. But it's nice to hear the words from one of the horse's own mouths. . .
Huffington Post:

In a new book, former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge reveals new details on politicization under President Bush, reports US News & World Report's Paul Bedard. Among other things, Ridge admits that he was pressured to raise the terror alert to help Bush win re-election in 2004.

I had read Howe and Strauss' The Fourth Turning : What History has to say about America's next rendesvouz with Destiny (Broadway Books, 1997) in 2000, and was re-reading it in '04. There was a point at which I flung the book down, looked at the television screen which had CNN news on, and said to myself: Someone in the W Bush/NeoCon movement must have read this book, and is deliberately trying to bring some of the prophesies to actualization. It was just too eerie, too perfect. The historian/ futurist duo who wrote the book had warned of the terror alerts, the coming flag waving, the upsurge in patriotism, the changes in national security. But they had done so 7 years earlier. How could this be happening? , I asked myself, if it were not pre-planned? This bit from Huffington Post is just an extra piece of confirmation; one more piece of the puzzle, which allows one the peace of mind to see that something hollow, strangely false-ringing, was not a trick of the mind, but of the GOP. . .

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froward1

at 21:35 on August 20th, 2009

And yet for all the atrocities of the Bush administration, known & just now coming to light; he still has supporters that defend him & demonize Obama.