"US Terror Alerts Were used as electoral weapons"

[dbeach]

Well well ..Tom ridge coming clean...{I doubt it but I think the terrists alerts are pure psych-ops from the evil genius rover}

US Terror Alerts Were
Used As Electoral Weapons

"Via Parker's diary on the subject. Remember the chart that showed the relationship between Bush's approval rating and terror alters? The chart clearly suggested that terror alerts were used more frequently during times of unpopularity for Bush. Now, new evidence, from Tom Ridge himself, suggests that there was indeed massive outside pressure on the department on homeland to security to often raise the terror alert despite flimsy evidence:

http://www.rense.com/general65/elec.htm
Ridge said he wanted to "debunk the myth" that his agency was responsible for repeatedly raising the alert under a color-coded system he unveiled in 2002.

"More often than not we were the least inclined to raise it," Ridge told reporters. "Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the intelligence was good, you don't necessarily put the country on (alert). ... There were times when some people were really aggressive about raising it, and we said, 'For that?' "

[demo dutch]

1. Surprise, Surprise!!

[indepat]

2. Heavens, I'm literally shocked by such outrageous insinuations

[FreedomAngel82]

6. I wonder why now

:shrug: I hope he stays around people and out of small plane's.

[silverweb]

3. Was there ever any doubt???

But that doesn't do us a whole hell of a lot of good now, does it? The stupid are still stupid, the gullible are still gullible, the brainwashed are still brainwashed --

and the evil are still evil.

:grr:

[jojo54]

4. What, our manly pResident stooping to such lows??

No, I don't believe it!!

[Democracy White]

5. I have always known that is why they used the damn thing

[kansasblue]

7. A visual!

Someone should overlay the terror reports with Bush's polling numbers.