Headlines you'll never see:
Superman Publishes Map To Kryptonite Meteorite
Achilles' Book Names One Known Weakness
Wonder Woman: The Secret Of My Magic Lasso
What's wrong with these headlines? Each of them is as farfetched as farfetchedness can be. Superman would never reveal the whereabouts of Kryptonium-containing meteorites, neither would Achilles broach the foot thing nor Wonder Woman spill the beans about her lasso's ability to render her powerless.
To do so would invite destruction.
Which is why it's unconscionable that the Bush administration would publish on a public website instructions, in Arabic, on how to build a nuclear weapon and beyond - how to build the intricate firing circuits and triggers used in the explosions.
Some of the instructions to the "trickiest" parts of a basic nuclear weapon were published on the web site just within the last few weeks.
These are very cynical times in our nation's history but can even these times support the thought that the Bush administration was hoping that a terrorist group would be able to use the instructions it published in public to construct a bomb and detonate it before Tuesday's election?
It certainly seems like the adminsitration was practically begging someone to attack us.
We all know that the only song the Republicans have been singing for nearly six years is: "the terrorists are going to get you unless you do as we say". With each false alarm raised by Homeland Security, the Republican administration has seen the value of Democratic stock slide. It was the endless drumbeat of fear of terrorism, coupled with the war on Iraq, that got Mr. Bush re-elected by a mere whisker over the incompetent Senator John Kerry in 2004.
It's my personal belief that, in the days leading up to 9/11, the Bush administration understood that something terrible was about to happen and that they intentionally allowed it to. I believe that they didn't know just how terrible the attacks on that day would be. The leaders within the administration are on record just prior to being installed around the president in 2000, agreeing that Americans would require "a new Pearl Harbor" in order for the administration's version of global dominance to become reality.
9/11 was just such "a new Pearl Harbor".
The members of the administration who agreed that a catastrophe was needed in order to recast the world in their mold were the same members who pushed the country into war on Iraq, pushed the anti-American Patriot Act through the lap-dog Congress, pushed Congress again to allow secret spying on anyone "suspected" of being a terrorist without having to prove to anyone why the person is a suspect, pushed Congress again to allow the president to order anyone - even American citizens - "detained" with no access to judicial process, pushed Congress again to leave what constitutes "torture" up to the president to decide and on and on.
These members and former members of the administration, Cheney, Rummy, Libby, Wolfie, Woozy, Drippy and Crock, have been singing the song "The Terrorists Gonna Getchu" the loudest during this election. They claim that only Republicans can keep America safe.
So what do they do? They publish instructions in Arabic on how to build a nuclear bomb on a public website. Were they hoping for another "Pearl Harbor" to keep them in power in 2006?

Comments (1)
Posted by Pistol Pete | November 6, 2006 12:57 PM
Posted on November 6, 2006 12:57