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2005-10-23 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-10-23 01:35|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Is there any substance to this? Any there, there? No, not really. "Terrorism experts" includes one hell of a range of people - many with their own agenda, such as a CIA employee who needs to be purged or some think-tank weenie who's got a book to push. Who decided what events would be listed - and how were they chosen? Who knows. A "Top 10" list is a PR exercise - period. The color-coded "warning system" is simply dumb - another PR idea that is more wanking than useful. This is WaPo attempting to make something out of nothing, cuz there's enough dust in the air and enough self-serving interests willing to spout some sound bytes vaguely critical of the WH to get away with it. BFD. Fuck off, WaPo.

Posted by .com 2005-10-23 02:15|| 2005-10-23 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Foiling Richard Reid was a "government success"? WTF? Are they even familiar with this plot? It failed not because of some sort of superior work, but rather because Reid had a pack of matches instead of a $5 jetflame lighter. If he had had this simple device, he would have successfully detonated, and several other planes would have probably been lost before the "shoe hole" in the X-ray screening had been detected.

Posted by gromky">gromky 2005-10-23 05:39|| http://communistposters.com/]">[http://communistposters.com/] 2005-10-23 05:39|| Front Page Top

#3 This reminds me of sitting on a perimeter once. There was a team trying to penatrate our defences. My commander said to rally my QRF. Not for the team trying to get through the wire but for the guy with bino's on the hill. He showed me very early the bigger threat is not always the obviouse one. The guy had a radio and was guiding the infil teams. Intel guys are great analists and advisors, but in the end only advisors to commanders. Bush must make decisions based on advice and half the facts and our best interests at heart. Intel guys who second guess commanders are working for the wrong side.

Posted by 49 pan 2005-10-23 09:52|| 2005-10-23 09:52|| Front Page Top

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