Mike, you keep forgetting that the "dot" that Bush connected to get the american people onside with attacking Iraq was the terrorist dot. Nobody BUT Bush and his immediate group ptu that dot there, they did so to create the public opinion for the war in Iraq.
There was nothing going on in Iraq that couldn't have waited six months or a year longer. Things were not significantly different from they way they were for the previous 10 years. UN made resolutions, Saddam ignored them, blah blah blah.
The dot was added and connection only to make this politically palatable to the US people, who still in the major beleive that attacking Iraq was "the war on Terror" - not the war on WMD (which is a term that the administration suddenly won't talk about).
To relate this back to the topic at hand, let's just say that the Bush team has proven over and over again that they are very good using weak, old, out of date, or questionable sourced info as the basis of making BIG moves in the world, and this current alert status thing is just the latest in a series of very strange moves. They seem to have the ability to create huge numbers of dots at will and connect them any way they like.
Anyone want to consider that this is a move for re-election?
Alex
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