Comments | narnee: What happens when petty politics is prioritised.

narnee

What happens when petty politics is prioritised.

Jul 15, 2005 17:24

From Informed Consent via mmaestro:

The question is whether Bush played politics with terror around the time of the Democratic National Convention in late July, 2004. Jim Lobe reminded us at the time that ' The New Republic weekly quoted Pakistani intelligence officials as saying the White House had asked them to announce the arrest or killing of any " ( Read more... )

american politics, politics, war on terror, british politics

Comments 4

redcountess July 15 2005, 17:39:44 UTC

GRRRRRRRRR!!!

aidan_skinner July 15 2005, 17:53:07 UTC

Shall we invade now, or wait till it's not so hot?

softfruit July 15 2005, 19:06:01 UTC

I remember this whole stuff going on at the time, right down to advance rumours that the Bush administration was going to stage an al-qaeda heist during the DNC just to undermine their media coverage.

ShrubCo is even willing to damage their own trump card, the war on terror, in order to achieve positive publicity against the Democrats

Nah. This one worked in their favour. DNC got undermined. As a result a few Brits got killed, generating more international support for authoritarian government, restrictions on freedom and communication etc.

Win-win from a Bush perspective.

Damn, I'm sure I didn't used to be this cynical.

narnee July 16 2005, 16:11:09 UTC

I remember this whole stuff going on at the time, right down to advance rumours that the Bush administration was going to stage an al-qaeda heist during the DNC just to undermine their media coverage.

Yes. It is not difficult to add two and two to make four. Anyone who expected they wouldn't is dangerously naive.

This one worked in their favour.
Win-win from a Bush perspective.

Not in the long-term, regardless of what ShrubCo believes. The reprecussions have only begun to play out.