Is His Nose STILL Growing?

Ah, Marcia Ellen, you are so young to be such a cynic! I'm over twice your age, and I had exactly the same reaction to hearing Dub give his speech to the Guards about our big success against a terrorist plot. Are we just jaded anti-Bush reactionaries? Or after five-years-plus of this administration have we acquired a sort of mentiroso radar that starts blipping as soon as we hear another gleeful untruth?

At any rate, we are not alone. I've been wandering around reading others who feel this way, and the most impressive article I've yet read is this one from The Counterterrorism Blog, Fast and Easy with the LA Terrorist Plot. It's full of those inconvenient little things most of us call "facts." Here is the beginning, but I do hope readers can continue through the whole piece. It's packed with information.

There is something terribly disingenuous about the President’s assertions today that a 9/11 styled attack on the West Coast was thwarted. The President, then later his Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend in a conference call with the press, argued that un-named Al Qaeda operatives arrested in un-named countries were actively planning the attack (though they would not say how far along it was) at an un-named time. All details are classified. How convenient. How un-verifiable for the public. The administration is simply trying to justify its blatantly illegal NSA wire-tapping program to the public. The failure of their legal arguments has been reduced to one point: we are defending America, so anything we do goes.
(My emphasis.)

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