Bush's Spreading of Fear Will Soon Backfire

[unhappycamper]

Bush's Spreading of Fear Will Soon Backfire
September 2, 2005
EDITORIAL

IRAQIS have been plunged into despair and anguish the likes of which they have never experienced before. Screaming or wailing, tearful or solemn, they gathered in their thousands on Thursday to hold mass funerals for the nearly 1,000 Shiite pilgrims, mostly women and children, who were killed in a horrifying stampede on a Baghdad bridge.

Terror has struck them down. Terror from the fear of terrorism. Terror from a mortar strike at a nearby mosque earlier Wednesday. Terror over the possible presence of a suicide bomber in their midst.

They were felled by a rumor, the newest weapon in the terrorist arsenal that has now proven far deadlier than any attack with a gun or a suicide bomber.

The terrorist, Interior Minister Bayan Baker Solagh told state-owned Iraqia TV, pointed a finger at another person and said that he was carrying explosives ... and that led to a panic. All it takes now is for the terrorist to lift a finger, and this could happen all over again in every population feeling a similar paranoia.

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[opihimoimoi]

1. Did Bush forget to send condolences to the Iraqi peeps??

[kiraboo]

2. The only thing to fear is Bush himself. n/t