Reply #13: I'm somewhat of the same mind

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The timing of this is very odd indeed.

Think back before 9/11/01, to 9/10/01. What were the lead stories in the press? Bush's numbers in the tank, the faltering economy, unemployment were all front page articles. 9/11 wiped that off the radar screen for years.

Remember back during the election? Every time bush's numbers were down, they trotted out Ridge with another bogus alert. As Chomsky has pointed out, "pushing the panic button" has been a reliable source of "instant political capital." But with the charade of the "war on terror," bush has this apparently bottomless well of "capital" from which to draw. In fact every time something critical began to gain traction, out came Ridge with another "alert." Of course, after the "election," these alerts mysteriously stopped. (Ridge, after leaving, admitted that they were bogus.)

Now fast forward to today. What was in the news yesterday? Plame, Rove, Miller, etc. The whole cabal was in danger of finally being exposed by the corporate media for their criminality. So now we have this horrific event in London. If one were of the mind that there are no coincidences (I being one), one might think this is as best a deflection that could occur. If such a bombing were to happen in, say, NYC, there would likely be quite a political backlash against the Bush cabal. If such bombings were to happen in, say, Baghdad, nobody would care because, in fact, it happens daily and the corporate media doesn't even mention it. So how about London? They're white english-speaking people, it's not too close, yet not too far away, and it can be spun as bush "keeping the terrorists at bay 'over there'."

I don't know. The timing just sets my intellectual alarms off. Right now, I'm more inclined to believe that this was an event orchestrated by agents of those who would benefit the most from it -- the bush cabal.