Writing, meet the Wall

Still doubt that the Bush administration manipulates the terror alerts to suit its political aims?

Lamont beats Lieberman by linking Joe to Bush. This is bad news for Repubs everywhere. (Indeed, one prominent Repub recently said that he and other Repub candidates will all be wearing scarlet letters around their necks in October. And well they should.)

But within 48 hours of Lamont ousting Joe, the Bush team convinced the Blair team to force MI5 to release the information on the London terrorist plot to bomb airplanes in midflight.

Note that over a week later NO arrests have been made. Note that those picked up had NOT purchased airline tickets yet, and several of them don't even have passports.

Thus, this plan was no closer to fruition than Bush's plan for a democratic Iraq or my teenage plan to date Lita Ford. There was no reason to move on it yet.

The smart play was for the Brits to keep on watching (as they had been for 9 months) to see how things developed. They might have snagged more financial backers, more terrorist contacts, etc.

But Rove couldn't wait. He needed to stifle the bad press brought on by the Lamont upset and keep the heat off of Bush.

So he forced the Brits to totally jump the gun in order to issue another bogus terror alert. (Ever wonder what these terror alerts might do to affable, decent Americans of conscience? Check this out to see.)

Hopefully more of the traditional media members will start calling Bush/Rove on these atrocious maniupulations that seek to use fear as a political weapon.

Dishonest cowards.