| 13. Soooprise! Soooprise! Soooprise! nt |
| -Ridge admits Bush admin pushed to raise security alert for political reasons on eve of re-election |
kpete |
Aug-20-09 08:58 AM |
#0 |
 -
K&R |
Solly Mack |
Aug-20-09 09:00 AM |
#1 |
| -
Duh. |
BadgerKid |
Aug-20-09 09:02 AM |
#2 |
 -
You beat me to it... |
Wendio |
Aug-20-09 10:38 AM |
#45 |
 -
Tell us something we don't know Ridge. n/t |
Window |
Aug-20-09 03:25 PM |
#122 |
| -
Indeed. K&R |
Richard Steele |
Aug-20-09 10:38 PM |
#165 |
| -
K&R your exact response |
DissedByBush |
Aug-20-09 10:42 PM |
#166 |
| -
well documented poltically motivated "terror" alerts |
UpInArms |
Aug-20-09 09:04 AM |
#3 |
| -
Thanks for posting this graph |
livetohike |
Aug-20-09 09:06 AM |
#4 |
| -
+1 for posting graph! |
BlueJessamine |
Aug-20-09 10:30 AM |
#41 |
| -
Follow the trend-line of that graph out another four years - you get to 22 percent |
leveymg |
Aug-20-09 06:56 PM |
#143 |
| -
ridge admits it again? |
mopinko |
Aug-20-09 09:06 AM |
#5 |
| -
Bingo ! |
jaysunb |
Aug-20-09 01:28 PM |
#97 |
| -
I would almost forgive him if he did! |
tofurkey |
Aug-20-09 10:11 PM |
#162 |
| -
obla di obla da, hey! life goes on... |
Soylent Brice |
Aug-20-09 09:06 AM |
#6 |
| -
Of course he did. And we were on to it, just another of his games. |
LuckyLib |
Aug-20-09 09:11 AM |
#7 |
| -
Can I possibly hate republicans more? Shouldn't this false terror be a crime? |
Mrs. Overall |
Aug-20-09 09:12 AM |
#8 |
| -
Yes it should be a crime |
Stephanie |
Aug-20-09 09:52 AM |
#19 |
| -
Geez, lighten up. It's not like they burned down the Reichstag... er, Capitol. |
DCKit |
Aug-20-09 10:21 AM |
#34 |
| -
Umm? Like using the Nazi scare tactics against the health care |
lyonn |
Aug-20-09 12:03 PM |
#85 |
| -
It's kinda like a bomb scare, but on a national scale. |
Jackpine Radical |
Aug-20-09 11:00 AM |
#56 |
| -
Then they should be given a detention, A very looooong detention... |
Mrs. Overall |
Aug-20-09 11:04 AM |
#57 |
| -
Ummm, where do we detain people? |
Jackpine Radical |
Aug-20-09 11:24 AM |
#64 |
| -
I think what they did falls under terrorism. |
MadMaddie |
Aug-20-09 11:36 AM |
#71 |
| -
Note the clever use of "subnational" in item #2. |
FatDave |
Aug-20-09 09:17 PM |
#150 |
| -
Or screaming "fire" in a crowded theater when there isn't one. |
TommyPaine |
Aug-20-09 11:39 AM |
#73 |
| -
Yes, it should. |
sofa king |
Aug-20-09 02:49 PM |
#119 |
| -
Yes, it was abuse of power |
sabrina 1 |
Aug-20-09 04:00 PM |
#129 |
| -
That has been played with since "they" created it. n/t |
sandyj999 |
Aug-20-09 09:18 AM |
#9 |
| -
The whole point of creating it was to be able to manipulate public fear. |
Raster |
Aug-20-09 09:31 AM |
#10 |
| -
MIHOP |
NoSheep |
Aug-20-09 11:29 AM |
#67 |
| -
+2. |
HughBeaumont |
Aug-20-09 02:05 PM |
#108 |
| -
"considered resigning" |
Lochloosa |
Aug-20-09 09:36 AM |
#11 |
| -
Because he had a very, very good Public-funded Health Care cover... |
Amonester |
Aug-20-09 11:51 AM |
#79 |
| -
exactly! too little, too late. asshole! |
tomp |
Aug-21-09 07:59 AM |
#177 |
| -
recommending n/t |
emulatorloo |
Aug-20-09 09:42 AM |
#12 |
| -
Soooprise! Soooprise! Soooprise! nt |
Javaman |
Aug-20-09 09:43 AM |
#13 |
| -
If you calculated the cost in both money, stress and time wasted caused by raising these |
zonkers |
Aug-20-09 09:45 AM |
#14 |
| -
Remember when they closed the Citi building right before the RNC? |
Stephanie |
Aug-20-09 09:54 AM |
#21 |
| -
Sure do. I was in NYC at the time. What a drag those 8 years were. |
zonkers |
Aug-20-09 10:20 AM |
#32 |
| -
Ya think? |
Raineyb |
Aug-20-09 09:49 AM |
#15 |
| -
Of course, we knew that. |
Stephanie |
Aug-20-09 09:50 AM |
#16 |
| -
But YOU DID NOT RESIGN, did you, Tommy? |
closeupready |
Aug-20-09 09:51 AM |
#17 |
| -
He did resign,but not not until after the election. |
BREMPRO |
Aug-20-09 10:26 AM |
#37 |
| -
Right, but I meant, before. |
closeupready |
Aug-20-09 10:39 AM |
#46 |
| -
Olbermann covered this several times on his "nexus of politics and terror" |
DeeDeeNY |
Aug-20-09 09:51 AM |
#18 |
| -
Yep! K.O. had it exactly right and in real time. |
KeepItReal |
Aug-20-09 02:43 PM |
#118 |
| -
As did Naomi Klein |
Fedja |
Aug-21-09 12:28 AM |
#171 |
| -
The bad old days of Color Calisthenics |
Wizard777 |
Aug-20-09 09:54 AM |
#20 |
| -
NO! |
hatrack |
Aug-20-09 09:56 AM |
#22 |
| -
nah?! |
barbtries |
Aug-20-09 09:57 AM |
#23 |
| -
"Playing politics with terror ". Oh yea, they did that a lot. n/t |
Piewhacket |
Aug-20-09 09:58 AM |
#24 |
| -
"Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R - Occultist) |
SpiralHawk |
Aug-20-09 09:58 AM |
#25 |
| -
I don't know which is worse. |
Altoid_Cyclist |
Aug-20-09 09:58 AM |
#26 |
| -
Lucky you! |
Torn_Scorned_Ignored |
Aug-20-09 10:47 AM |
#51 |
| -
Maple leaves for everyone. |
Altoid_Cyclist |
Aug-20-09 11:18 AM |
#62 |
| -
You've got nothing to lose |
Torn_Scorned_Ignored |
Aug-20-09 12:00 PM |
#82 |
| -
Makes sense. |
Altoid_Cyclist |
Aug-20-09 01:10 PM |
#95 |
| -
Here ya go.. |
Torn_Scorned_Ignored |
Aug-20-09 01:38 PM |
#100 |
| -
Bush do something like that - NO WAY!!!!! |
LynneSin |
Aug-20-09 10:02 AM |
#27 |
| -
Deleted message |
Name removed |
Aug-20-09 10:09 AM |
#28 |
| -
'the Bush Crime Family still walks' |
sabrina 1 |
Aug-20-09 04:19 PM |
#132 |
| -
"political reasons" are at the core of both the 'wars' on 'terror' and 'drugs' |
ixion |
Aug-20-09 10:12 AM |
#29 |
| -
knr |
frylock |
Aug-20-09 10:13 AM |
#30 |
| -
No screaming puppy poop! |
Uncle Joe |
Aug-20-09 10:20 AM |
#31 |
| -
## PLEASE DONATE TO DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND! ## |
DU GrovelBot |
Aug-20-09 10:20 AM |
#33 |
| -
We knew the whole ridiculous color coded treat level thing was all about politics. Now we |
BREMPRO |
Aug-20-09 10:22 AM |
#35 |
| -
I posted this to Facebook, and got this response from one of the usual suspects: |
bbernardini |
Aug-20-09 10:23 AM |
#36 |
| -
For the past six or eight years.... |
DirtyDawg |
Aug-20-09 10:27 AM |
#38 |
| -
Karl Rove's DU pal will not like this one |
Kingofalldems |
Aug-20-09 10:28 AM |
#39 |
| -
I hope someone important |
bejamin wood |
Aug-20-09 10:29 AM |
#40 |
| -
It isn't funny to me either. But, the RW is already trying to discredit Ridge over this. n/t |
wisteria |
Aug-20-09 09:55 PM |
#153 |
| -
k&r |
BlueJessamine |
Aug-20-09 10:31 AM |
#42 |
| -
Why is it that things so often move straight from "wild conspiracy" to "let's move on"? |
RufusTFirefly |
Aug-20-09 10:32 AM |
#43 |
| -
Either Junior should be charged w treason or Ridge should be sued by for defamation by Junior. IMO. |
zonkers |
Aug-20-09 10:43 AM |
#49 |
| -
"... Sorry. Time to move on...." |
xxqqqzme |
Aug-20-09 01:24 PM |
#96 |
| -
I assume you realize that I'm in complete agreement with you. |
RufusTFirefly |
Aug-20-09 01:30 PM |
#98 |
| -
Good point. |
Gin Blossom |
Aug-21-09 12:50 AM |
#172 |
| -
Why believe Ridge? |
Torn_Scorned_Ignored |
Aug-20-09 10:33 AM |
#44 |
| -
He was the governor of my state, and he may have deceived us out of loyalty to the administration, |
wisteria |
Aug-20-09 10:00 PM |
#155 |
| -
I wonder what Ridge knows about |
Torn_Scorned_Ignored |
Aug-20-09 10:40 AM |
#47 |
| -
I don't understand your apparent sarcasm? Just wondering why because if anything |
AuntPatsy |
Aug-20-09 10:09 PM |
#160 |
| -
Just MORE Criminality. n/t |
orbitalman |
Aug-20-09 10:43 AM |
#48 |
| -
I am shocked! Shocked, I tell you!!! |
bluescribbler |
Aug-20-09 10:47 AM |
#50 |
| -
Yet another reason to disband DHS |
derby378 |
Aug-20-09 10:48 AM |
#52 |
| -
yea, so. more criminal activity and nothing to be done about it. |
bdamomma |
Aug-20-09 10:48 AM |
#53 |
| -
Will he be arrested? If not, who cares. |
SomeGuyInEagan |
Aug-20-09 10:49 AM |
#54 |
| -
another "RETIRED GENERAL" finally decides to speak his mind, and SELL HIS BOOK......lol |
happygoluckytoyou |
Aug-20-09 10:51 AM |
#55 |
| -
And yet people still believe the Bush cabal had nothing to do with 9/11 n/t |
drdtroit |
Aug-20-09 11:07 AM |
#58 |
| -
Of course, many of us knew this all along. |
The_Commonist |
Aug-20-09 11:08 AM |
#59 |
| -
ridge should have done it - people were already seeing through it |
mule_train |
Aug-20-09 11:11 AM |
#60 |
| -
Still we all ow them to go free |
liberal N proud |
Aug-20-09 11:17 AM |
#61 |
| -
Another conspiracy theorist (ME) VINDICATED! |
NoSheep |
Aug-20-09 11:24 AM |
#63 |
| -
Don't hold your breath waiting for any apologies |
RufusTFirefly |
Aug-20-09 11:35 AM |
#70 |
| -
No kidding. So I congratulate myself! I'm getting used to it - LOL |
NoSheep |
Aug-20-09 11:39 AM |
#74 |
| -
Another Pub POS who kept silent when it would have helped the country and |
No Elephants |
Aug-20-09 11:27 AM |
#65 |
| -
now if we can find who issued the fake bin ladin tape and the fake Rove Arab tape |
Lerkfish |
Aug-20-09 11:27 AM |
#66 |
| -
There oughta be a law against that. nt |
valerief |
Aug-20-09 11:30 AM |
#68 |
| -
There are several. Apparently, we've stop enforcing our laws though. We're looking only forward. |
No Elephants |
Aug-20-09 11:44 AM |
#75 |
| -
Yes because the Repukes |
Politicalboi |
Aug-20-09 04:07 PM |
#130 |
| -
I knew this, it was obvious to many people, but not enough to secure the election for Sen. Kerry. |
wisteria |
Aug-20-09 11:34 AM |
#69 |
| -
Don't forget Ohio |
Politicalboi |
Aug-20-09 04:12 PM |
#131 |
| -
Your right! n/t |
wisteria |
Aug-20-09 10:01 PM |
#156 |
| -
Warren County, OH it was not a bomb scare but a "terrorist threat" |
Botany |
Aug-21-09 06:31 AM |
#176 |
| -
Doesn't it bother Republicans at all when their "leaders" pull this nonsense? |
harun |
Aug-20-09 11:38 AM |
#72 |
| -
Yes, it bothers them. They find them disloyal and call them traitors. Not |
No Elephants |
Aug-20-09 11:47 AM |
#77 |
| -
There are no dirty tricks, sliming of people, outright pathological lying |
drdtroit |
Aug-20-09 12:39 PM |
#92 |
| -
Surprise surprise... |
LeftishBrit |
Aug-20-09 11:46 AM |
#76 |
| -
Anyone else remember the surge of beheadings that took place during summer of 2004? |
KansDem |
Aug-20-09 11:48 AM |
#78 |
| -
He "considered" resigning. |
jhain |
Aug-20-09 11:57 AM |
#80 |
| -
Now, Do we believe the "conspiracy theories" |
disndat |
Aug-20-09 12:00 PM |
#81 |
| -
So now he tells us |
Alcibiades |
Aug-20-09 12:01 PM |
#83 |
| -
Fear mongering thats how they work |
lovuian |
Aug-20-09 12:02 PM |
#84 |
| -
When their policies, when they tell the truth about what they actually |
harun |
Aug-20-09 12:31 PM |
#87 |
| -
Not to be a wet blanket here... |
hughee99 |
Aug-20-09 12:31 PM |
#86 |
| -
Suh-prahz! Suh-prahz! Suh-prahz! |
BrklynLiberal |
Aug-20-09 12:31 PM |
#88 |
| -
File Under: No Shit |
gaspee |
Aug-20-09 12:33 PM |
#89 |
| -
No one could have KNOWN they'd do something like THAT!!! |
omega minimo |
Aug-20-09 12:35 PM |
#90 |
| -
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise n/t |
theaocp |
Aug-20-09 12:36 PM |
#91 |
| -
Tell us something we didn't know, Ridge. |
Arrowhead2k1 |
Aug-20-09 12:52 PM |
#93 |
| -
During the election - didn't the "terror alerts" happen specifically when Kerry would pull ahead?? |
cbdo2007 |
Aug-20-09 12:59 PM |
#94 |
| -
Yes, consistently this is what happened. n/t |
wisteria |
Aug-20-09 02:04 PM |
#107 |
| -
Hum, just who didn't figure this out . . . |
Cybergata |
Aug-20-09 01:31 PM |
#99 |
| -
can't repubs get anything right? a pubic option sounds like the best idea I've heard in ages |
abq e streeter |
Aug-20-09 02:03 PM |
#106 |
| -
yes |
Harry Pierce |
Aug-21-09 02:11 AM |
#174 |
| -
I remember when they did that. Didn't they reroute traffic in New Jersey and New York for weeks and... |
IsItJustMe |
Aug-20-09 01:48 PM |
#101 |
| -
It's amazing how all our paranoid suspicions |
XemaSab |
Aug-20-09 01:52 PM |
#102 |
| -
and the complicit MSM was only glad to oblige, instead of questioning. |
mod mom |
Aug-20-09 01:56 PM |
#103 |
| -
I recall Ridge stating the summer of 2004... |
AtLiberty |
Aug-20-09 02:00 PM |
#104 |
| -
The very definition of terrorism |
The Blue Flower |
Aug-20-09 02:02 PM |
#105 |
| -
And the MSM called them on it.......... |
PatSeg |
Aug-20-09 02:13 PM |
#109 |
| -
dupe |
windoe |
Aug-20-09 02:22 PM |
#110 |
| -
Ridge never was the brightest bulb |
windoe |
Aug-20-09 02:23 PM |
#111 |
| -
Karl Rove would never suggest something so unethical, falsified & despicable....Now would he? |
LaPera |
Aug-20-09 02:24 PM |
#112 |
| -
LOL! n/t |
wisteria |
Aug-20-09 10:03 PM |
#157 |
| -
Yes, most concious (not those willingly hypnotized by MSM) saw thru re-election security move but |
JohnWxy |
Aug-20-09 02:27 PM |
#113 |
| -
filed under "SHIT WE ALREADY KNEW" |
Blue_Tires |
Aug-20-09 02:33 PM |
#114 |
| -
isn't that terrorism? |
unapatriciated |
Aug-20-09 02:34 PM |
#115 |
| -
we kept saying this was the case - but how many morons insisted |
samsingh |
Aug-20-09 02:41 PM |
#116 |
| -
Another one who couldn't tell the truth when he was most needed to. Just sad. n/t |
polly7 |
Aug-20-09 02:43 PM |
#117 |
| -
MORE continual definition of the most plausible fall-back position = HUGE F'n DOH!! n/t. |
L. Coyote |
Aug-20-09 02:53 PM |
#120 |
| -
Ridge Admits Being Spineless Bush Toady |
MineralMan |
Aug-20-09 03:09 PM |
#121 |
| -
VINDICATED!!!! See here... |
Julius Civitatus |
Aug-20-09 03:27 PM |
#123 |
| -
Yes indeed |
blogslut |
Aug-20-09 10:05 PM |
#158 |
| -
Old, old news. |
RUMMYisFROSTED |
Aug-20-09 03:29 PM |
#124 |
| -
I'm repeating everyone else but DUH! |
ScottLand |
Aug-20-09 03:36 PM |
#125 |
| -
K&R Duh. |
pleah |
Aug-20-09 03:38 PM |
#126 |
| -
The night of that Ohio recount- RED ALERT! |
Gregorian |
Aug-20-09 03:44 PM |
#127 |
| -
I know. No one will be held accountable. This will just be remembered as a very said time in our |
wisteria |
Aug-20-09 10:06 PM |
#159 |
| -
Ridge who was head of Homeland "Security" |
Politicalboi |
Aug-20-09 03:52 PM |
#128 |
| -
Wow, so you're saying that the smell of raw sewage was actually politics? |
ElboRuum |
Aug-20-09 04:23 PM |
#133 |
| -
Look |
Autonomy |
Aug-20-09 04:34 PM |
#134 |
| -
3 more recs gets us to 200 |
yorgatron |
Aug-20-09 04:46 PM |
#136 |
| -
Tom Ridge belongs in jail with Bush and Cheney! |
Hubert Flottz |
Aug-20-09 04:45 PM |
#135 |
| -
terra terra terra.....terra alerts...... |
Historic NY |
Aug-20-09 04:54 PM |
#137 |
| -
I still have a lovely vision of the Bush cabal in orange jump suits, shackled together |
solara |
Aug-20-09 05:01 PM |
#138 |
| -
That would have been helpful information |
mulhollanddriven |
Aug-20-09 05:13 PM |
#139 |
| -
I see your duh's, and raise you a quadruple duh. |
geckosfeet |
Aug-20-09 05:54 PM |
#140 |
| -
why, oh why |
kpete |
Aug-20-09 06:24 PM |
#141 |
| -
K&R |
armyowalgreens |
Aug-20-09 06:48 PM |
#142 |
| -
Not surprised.......... |
deep1 |
Aug-20-09 07:29 PM |
#144 |
| -
Save as "you picked a fine time to tell us, Tom" |
laughingliberal |
Aug-20-09 07:35 PM |
#145 |
| -
Did this make the evening news? |
mzmolly |
Aug-20-09 08:17 PM |
#146 |
| -
So the news wires mentioned it |
Tab |
Aug-20-09 08:28 PM |
#147 |
| -
K&R |
Cali_Democrat |
Aug-20-09 08:50 PM |
#148 |
| -
they might as well admit cheney personally tortured political enemies....no one will prosecute |
spanone |
Aug-20-09 09:16 PM |
#149 |
| -
Been there, done that: in 2004 |
veracity |
Aug-20-09 09:52 PM |
#151 |
| -
Special Prosecutor needed pronto |
Kingofalldems |
Aug-20-09 09:55 PM |
#152 |
| -
Has anyone in the media put this together with the Bush WH suppressing the domestic spying story??? |
kenny blankenship |
Aug-20-09 09:57 PM |
#154 |
| -
It implicates the media for complacency, so they will shove it under the rug and discredit Ridge. n/ |
wisteria |
Aug-20-09 10:10 PM |
#161 |
| -
the only consolation=for Christians |
w8liftinglady |
Aug-20-09 10:14 PM |
#163 |
| -
Yeah, we knew that. So what? nm |
rhett o rick |
Aug-20-09 10:38 PM |
#164 |
| -
They should all go to jail |
ProSense |
Aug-20-09 10:46 PM |
#167 |
| -
Yes! n/t |
wisteria |
Aug-21-09 12:00 AM |
#169 |
| -
There's a shock... |
grifter_tm |
Aug-20-09 11:00 PM |
#168 |
| -
Yes, I say... |
Harry Pierce |
Aug-21-09 02:01 AM |
#173 |
| -
that is what we said all along n/t |
2Design |
Aug-21-09 12:20 AM |
#170 |
| -
Hold on... let me put on my surpirsed look... |
The Animator |
Aug-21-09 02:44 AM |
#175 |
| -
Not surprising, the story is being buried by the MSM. |
wisteria |
Aug-21-09 08:58 AM |
#178 |
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore