Reply #324: voice of reason v. wishful thinking > BCCI +kerry +investigation +bush

[bluecity]

Thanks for adding your voice of reason.

I don't know how many people are actually reading the article, which is a labyrinth, and mulling it over. It's just more plausible that the Bush team wouldn't expose itself by letting thousands of people in on the deal when they could manipulate the votes at a higher level. To me, the fact that the margins for Bush increased with surprising regularity across many states as the returns came in (regardless of the exit polls -- "surprising" in light of the pre-election poll data), was what made me think something had been rigged. The margins were just too even. Reality has rough edges. And this story's seams are too smooth.

For this reason and because it concentrates in one web all the choice entities already known to be linked with Bush, from the Saudis to BCCI, it qualifies as a bona fide conspiracy theory, the most concentrated one we've seen so far. It shouts SMOKING GUN! Sure, it may prove to be true -- if you get all the best investigative reporters on it, though the species is nearly extinct, and if they have as many years as it took to expose Watergate. (By the way, I lived next door to James McCord in Springfield, VA when I was 7 years old!) But wishful thinking is our Achilles' heel.

I'd like to see John Kerry investigate the BCCI-Bush-Saudi angle anyway. He was the one who cracked the BCCI scandal when exposing the Contra drug connections, a part of his legacy in the Senate sadly underreported during the campaign. If you google bcci +kerry +investigation +bush, you'll get 7670 links -- a nice foundation for understanding Kerry's role as investigator and for someone to begin drawing the labyrinthine chart needed to begin thinking about this seriously.