Ladies and gents, the news of the terrorist plots that were foiled this morning were as a result of a coordinated effort on the part of President Bush, VP Cheney, “Bush’s Brain” Karl Rove, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair - not to warn and advise people who were travelling to and from the UK, but instead to send a message to Lamont voters in CT and other anti-war nuts elsewhere in the country that voting for an anti-war candidate will have consequences!!!!!!!!!!
Read the below posts to find out just how they managed to fool the world:
- Al Qaeda’s Predictable Return to the Stage: You Can Thank Dick Cheney
- Lieberman loses, CODE RED, CODE RED, CODE RED
K-Lo rounds up some DU reax. Here’s one:
“Exactly—why now? Why is this major disruption being discussed NOW. What else is going on? This sounds lke another Bush diversion tactic…Get the media to discuss terror, because there is something else that they don’t want us discussing. Bait & Switch technique.”
We also learn today that it’s Bush’s fault that the terrorist plots were even designed to begin with:
In the meantime, the sane words of John Derbyshire guide us back to reality:
I can’t resist pointing out (since Andy McCarthy is apparently too much of a gent to do so) that this latest plot illustrated an important point about terrorism: If you want to breed terrorists and give them the opportunity to mature their plans, there is no environment better than a free, open, “diversity”-whipped Western nation.
Rubble doesn’t make trouble. Neither do complaisant amoral dictators, so long as you keep their Swiss bank accounts well stuffed. The trouble comes from neat English suburbs with herbaceous borders and privet hedges, with bobbies on the beat and milkmen making daily deliveries.
Nor do poverty, oppression, and madrassas make terrorists. Comfortable lower-middle-class surroundings, authorities terrified of being called “racist,” and the British educational system, will accomplish the job perfectly well.
Another voice of reason, Jeff Goldstein, aptly quotes Terminator character Kyle Reese, who said:
Listen. And understand. That terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
Too bad the left is too busy wrongly painting someone else as “the terminator” to notice who the real ones are.
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Also blogging about the foiled attacks: Pajamas Media, Dean Barnett at Hugh Hewitt’s, James Joyner at Outside the Beltway (who has a nice link roundup), John Hawkins, bRight and Early, Flopping Aces, Lorie Byrd at Wizbang (see also Kim Priestap’s post at Wizbang), Ed Driscoll, Villainous Company, All Things Beautiful, RightWinged.com, QandO
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Yep, I predicted this on my blog this morning.
Comment by Karl @ 8/10/2006 - 2:28 pm
- Cheney is doing a better job of getting out the “this is why” word than Bush, who once again misses a chance to drive the whole “reson we’re trying to do the things we are, and why you don’t want to tie your cart to the weak on terror progressives”. I just don’t understand his damn reluctance to use his pulpit to really hammer on the WOT issue. He drops the ball in this area every time. Maybe he’s being advised to hold his guns til we get closer to the fall elections, but it’s a questionable move if so. If he’d frame it right, you’d see even more of a reaction from the Left, and that’s what we want. as much cut and run talk as we can egg them into. Especially with the connection to the Lieberman/Clintonista versus the Dean/Gore side of the Dhimmicrats infighting. I think the Repub’s are missing a lot of opportunities.
- Bang
Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 8/10/2006 - 3:00 pm
I was just thinking about that when they announced the story. I knew the moonbats would be out screaming that this was just made up to scare people. Apparently they are of the notion that the hijackers on 9/11 were the only people on earth that wanted to hurt us, and now that they are gone, there’s no threat from anyone else.
I really don’t know what they are complaining about anyway. Every terrorist attack that occurs anywhere on the planet for the next twenty years they will blame on Bush.
Comment by NC Cop @ 8/10/2006 - 3:22 pm
And if this was a planned scare tactic why wait until after the Lamont/Lieberman race to pull it off? Wouldn’t it make sense, if you can even use that word here, to announce the major terror bust before the election to shine up Lieberman’s credentials.
Nutters.
Comment by lawhawk @ 8/10/2006 - 4:51 pm
First hour of Medved had a few wackjob callers with their conspiracy theories. Some of them think Medved’s covering up, too. They speak as if it’s all so obvious. The scary thought is that they may vote.
Comment by Marshall Art @ 8/10/2006 - 5:39 pm
How can you all deny that this is suspicious timing! It’s obvious that Osama Bin Laden is a Republican!
I think the Dimocrats are finding it damned inconvenient that our enemies don’t always do what the Dems want them to, but instead are equal opportunity fascists, they hate both Dems and Reps equally. Actually, they probably respect Reps more for their strength and hate Dems for their weakness even more than they do the average American.
Comment by Severian @ 8/10/2006 - 6:59 pm
ST does it again, with an excellant top notch Post.
Everyone Say YAY for ST
Comment by Phil @ 8/10/2006 - 7:55 pm
And these people are free to walk the streets! Yeesh!
That Rove is one busy Evil Genius!
Comment by benning @ 8/10/2006 - 8:00 pm
Great writing by John Derbyshire. Thanks for posting it ST. His definition of terrorist breeding ground reminds me of the SDS and Weather Underground of the 60s/70s who came from mostly affluence. Actually, terrorists can come from anywhere.
Comment by TomR @ 8/10/2006 - 9:52 pm
“It’s nothing more than a planned scare tactic!!!!!!!”
Hoo man these guys are good at fig yar in stradudgeez! I hadn’t thought of that…….yet. Thanks!
respy,
The Impervious Mr. Rove
Comment by breathin' too hard @ 8/10/2006 - 9:59 pm
Looks like I hit your filter w/last transmit.
Comment by forest hunter @ 8/10/2006 - 10:01 pm
It’s just sad to see some of these Democrats take their levels of denial and delusion to pathologic levels. It’s dangerous also as their insanity continues to feed the obstructionist impulse within the Democratic Party.
That same obstructionist impulse would have prevented the NSA terrorist monitoring program which played an important role in uncovering this terrorist plot.
With less than 90 days to go before an election which will decide whether we continue with our current efforts, which are still woefully inadequate, or we turn back and allow the delusionists to take charge.
The events of 8/10 should be wake up call and a reminder that another 9/11 or worse is possible if we fail to understand the danger we face.
Comment by Mike's America @ 8/11/2006 - 1:32 am
Yeah Air America is really playing the plot deal and they are singing the praises of pencil neck lamont, I agree with the poster above, if this were a set up why wasn’t it done before the election, but alas, there are still those asswipes out there saying that 9/11 was an inside job, yadayadayadaaah. It’s hopeless to agree with these loons, kinda like trying to reason with binladen or the hezzies, YOU CAN’T TALK TO THEM, THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND REASON.
Comment by Drewsmom @ 8/11/2006 - 6:35 am
These people claim Bush is an idiot and now they claim he is the mastermind of this whole terror plot to scare people into voting for those who support his position. Will these people please make up their mind; is he an idiot or is he brilliant??
Comment by US Vet @ 8/11/2006 - 8:58 am
The sad thing about this is, it isn’t just our own leftist moonbats who are questioning the timing of this bust. Some of Britain’s libertarians commenting at Samizdata have decided the timing was “too perfect”, saving Blair’s hindquarters:
That comment, to me, is as bizarre as any moonbat conspiracy theory on the US side of the pond.
Comment by leucanthemum b @ 8/11/2006 - 2:35 pm
Can’t you just hear the thoughts, US Vet?
“That idiot Bushitler! He fooled us again!!!11!!
Comment by stoo @ 8/11/2006 - 2:35 pm
Yes, well. Apparently the looney tunes have failed to notice that the Queen is still on her throne, and Britain is still an independent nation, and that Scotland Yard does not take orders from Karl Rove.
Obviously it makes no sense to wait until after the CT election, if this is a political move. It’s too late to help Joe, and much too soon to influence the events of November.
And, umm, can we talk here? There was no way the bad guys were ever going to bring this off–they’d been under surveillance for more than a year. So can we stop the hysterical nonsense about how close we came?
Me? I am ready for some FOOTBALL.
Comment by Leslie @ 8/11/2006 - 2:55 pm
Go Redskins!
Comment by Baklava @ 8/11/2006 - 3:18 pm
“Me? I am ready for some FOOTBALL.”
*grin* I’m with ya there, Les!
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/11/2006 - 3:19 pm
I played some yesterday. God it was fun. 10 of us did it at our work picnic.
Comment by Baklava @ 8/11/2006 - 4:17 pm
Leslie: Why does your name go to Columbia University?
Comment by forest hunter @ 8/11/2006 - 8:33 pm
ST - Thanks for the great post. I checked out the links to the moonbat blogs, and I’m glad I did. Although it was personally nauseating to see so much loathing and ignorance in one place, one must be reminded occasionally of the insipid stupidity that runs rampant in the left.
However, one particularly stupid comment caught my attention and I thought I’d post myanswer to it.
“and what happened to airport security isn’t that suppose to protect us? I’m so scared I think I will just go back to sleep for awhile.”
I don’t know about you, but last time I flew, I could take any kind of liquid/jell on board the aircraft with me. I wouldn’t have thought of it, because my brain doesn’t work that way, but I’ll bet that with the right amount of $$ even I could devise a bomb using disguised electronics (cell phone, laptop, ipod) and liquids (hair jel, mouthwash, medice bottles) to make a fairly substantial bomb.
My ‘hobby’ in high school was making explosives. Somewhat weird, I know, but I loved chemistry, and attended the science fairs with other students, and it was common for us to trade our ‘recipes’ for different explosives. To me, it was just for the fun of recreating the proper procedures to create the compounds with the somewhat unstable chemical bonds that would produce an explosive reaction. Mostly I just made my own fireworks, but I did make some pretty potent contact explosives and fairly complex detonatable substances. No doubt today I’d be on the FBI’s watch list, kicked out of school, and sent to a shrink for examination, but back in the 70’s, it was just considered one of those ‘boys will be boys’ kind of things. I no longer do any of that stuff, and the only explosives I have are contained in brass casings with leaden projectiles capping them.
It’s scary that there are so many truly moronic people populating the Democratic party, and that they sometimes have an opportunity to have a say in what happens here. And when the you-know-what really hits the fan here, they will be crying “Why weren’t we WARNED??” before blaming the government for not protecting them. Anyone remember Katrina?
Comment by mahwah @ 8/11/2006 - 8:43 pm
And after not warning the kosbots and thug-lubbers that freshly made horse shoes are hot, they burn them selves and sue.
Comment by forest hunter @ 8/11/2006 - 11:32 pm