This man who likes to be called the "warrior President" has yet again demonstrated that he is the same one-trick pony who went from an "asterisk" president, a disrespected usurper without a mandate, a vision, or any popularity on September 10, 2001, to the "War on Terror" chest-thumper on September 12--after coming out of his shameful "hiding and flying" on 9/11.
Now, with the country more polarized than at any time since the Vietnam War era, with much of the world openly wishing for our continued comeuppance--and that's from our friends, everyone else is wishing for our demise--and his poll numbers worse than "Poppy's" in his re-election debacle, what does Dubya do? He tries to again turn us into a nation of cowards, so afraid of "seven shadows" that we must have our "Mission Accomplished" stud around for another 4 years of humiliation as he protects us from the "evil-doers"!
How is it that even forty-something percent of Americans can't see through this scam and affront upon the nation and people that beat Hitler and Tojo at the same time without all of this whimpering and cowering and changing of who we are? Are we even remotely similar Americans to that "Greatest Generation"? Or are we hide-and-fly Bushies, ghostly zombies who answer only to the call of a fear-monger?
WASHINGTON, May 26 - The Bush administration said on Wednesday that it had credible intelligence suggesting that Al Qaeda is planning to attack the United States in the next several months, a period in which events like an international summit meeting and the two political conventions could offer tempting targets.
Attorney General John Ashcroft said at a news conference that intelligence reports and public statements by people associated with Al Qaeda suggested that the terrorist group was "almost ready to attack the United States" and harbored a "specific intention to hit the United States hard."
But some intelligence officials, terrorism experts - and to some extent even Mr. Ashcroft's own F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III - offered a more tempered assessment, saying, "For the next few weeks we have reason to believe there is a heightened threat to the U.S. interests around the world.'' And some opponents of President Bush, including police and firefighter union leaders aligned with Senator John Kerry, the expected Democratic presidential candidate, said the timing of the announcement appeared intended in part to distract attention from Mr. Bush's sagging poll numbers and problems in Iraq.
The administration did not raise the terrorist threat advisory from its current level of elevated, or yellow, and the White House said Mr. Bush would not alter his schedule because of security concerns.
"There's no real new intelligence, and a lot of this has been out there already," said one administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "There really is no significant change that would require us to change the alert level of the country." ...
Mr. Ashcroft called for greater public vigilance, especially in looking out for seven people sought by the F.B.I. who are suspected of being Qaeda members or sympathizers.
The names of six of the seven were publicly circulated by the authorities months ago, and officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said that they had no reason to believe any of the seven suspects were in the United States.
Asked about the timing of his new warnings about the suspects, Mr. Ashcroft said, "We believe the public, like all of us, needs a reminder."
Some intelligence officials said they were uncertain that the link between the fresh intelligence and the likelihood of another attack was as apparent as Mr. Ashcroft made it out to be. Officials at the Department of Homeland Security said just a day before Mr. Ashcroft's announcement that they had no new intelligence pointing to the threat of an attack.
Senator Richard J. Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who is a member of the intelligence committee, said in an interview that the committee had received no word of any new information of the type Mr. Ashcroft described. Mr. Durbin said that if there were credible new information about a possible strike, he believed the intelligence committee should have been told about it.
