More Terror Lies...

Hmmmm. Here is an interesting article about the foiled terror plot last week.

It seems that much of what we've been told isn't strictly true. The plot was not to crash planes last Thursday, in fact the suspects had not yet purchased tickets, and some had not yet even finished applying for passports. The attack was not imminent.

The Bush Administration, briefed by British officials, pushed for an arrest on Thursday, while British officials would have preferred to survail for at least another week, to try to learn more about the source of the plot and any other intelligence (links within the organization, etc) they could get.

I don't know why they would do this, but this was definitely exploited for political gain by the White House (which has, by the way, backfired, inasmuch as polls show nary a bump in the Presidential approval ratings), both in terms of the immediacy of the threat and in terms of pushing for a politically positive arrest (in light of the Lieberman loss on Tuesday, which most people see as a referendum on the President, as it was Lieberman's staunch support OF the Administration that got him into such hot water with the voters) over the more intelligence-based "wait and learn" tack that should have been taken.

Folks, they're not making us any safer. If safety of Americans were their top priority, they would absolutely have wanted to wait and see what more intel could be gathered BEFORE taking down a plot which was not yet any immediate threat.

If the War on Terror is the only drum that the Administration and the neoconservatives have to beat to keep themselves in power, we really need to note the extent to which it is a politically motivated beat, and not actually anything real, true or noble behind it.

Liam.