The Blinding Light of Propaganda

The Associated Press ran a story today over on MSNBC stating that terror cases are being prosecuted at pre-9/11 levels. Very interesting considering that Mr. Bush continues to talk about the necessity to continue on with the war in Iraq and how we must continue to distance ourselves from the rest of the world as we pursue this seemingly fruitless war on terror.

Several key sycophants in the government chimed in to explain the reason why so few cases are being prosecuted but perhaps it was Meredith Fuchs, general counsel at the National Security Archive at George Washington University who said it best. She was quoted as saying, "The surge right after 9/11 makes sense, but the drop-off so quickly means either a lot of that post-9/11 activity was not necessary or that they haven't identified key people or that key people in custody aren't being prosecuted."

Very interesting. So we have three possible reasons for this:

1. The Bush administration moved quickly to stir the public into a state of panic and fear so that he could further his own personal agenda in Iraq and the middle east.

2. The Bush administration employs a lot of yes men and women who are inept and unable to gather the intelligence necessary to locate the key people involved in terror plots against the United States.

3. The Bush administration was so gung-ho to justify the war on terror that many of the key people may have been captured but due to the fact that they were tortured it would now be difficult to bring them to the United States to be prosecuted.

Folks, no matter how you slice it, that good old boy in the White House fucked up on so many different levels that now, we as a nation are all caught up in a giant cluster fuck. Let's start looking to the next century, this one needs to be written off as a giant loss.

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