Federal officials said yesterday that because fresh intelligence suggests al Qaeda is planning multiple catastrophic terrorist attacks in the United States, they were raising the national threat alert status to "high risk," or code orange, a step administration officials previously had said they were reluctant to take except in the most unusual circumstances.
It's a shame that all those tax breaks have made it harder to fund vital services...like hmmmm, Domestic Security needs...so let's all thank the republicans and Grover Norquist for giving us a bit of holiday cheer. Thanks y'all, and why do you hate America?
posted by Jo Fish on 12.21.03 at 11:08 PM
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I think this is just an excuse to shove Cheney back into the bunker. We have had too many of these alerts based only on "chatter" that it is hard to take them seriously.
Obviously, Tom Ridge has missed a memo because on the Sunday chats Tom DeLay let the American people know that the war on terror is going swimmingly and that we have totally disrupted the al Qaeda networks.
He certainly missed the capture of Saddam which we have all been assured has made America safer.
To raise the threat level now would mean that Howard Dean was right and the Fearful Leader was wrong.
I know that there are a lot of unhappy Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard personnel in my area who had Christmas leave plans that will now be cancelled.
posted by: Bryan on 12.22.03 at 12:35 AM [permalink]
But for the tax cuts, this might have been an alert of a different color.
