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Originally posted by theusername
This is the illogical thinking that has me fed up. You have reasons to feel Bush is a bad president and vote for Kerry, to accuse Bush of conspiring to allow an attack so he could declare Marshall law and keep his position? This point my friend is looney, and yes this thread belongs with all the other conspiracy theories.
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i don't think the issue is "would bush let an attack happen?" so much as the scare-mongering that this announcement makes. to quote the article...
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The government is not raising its color-coded alert status, however, he said, and U.S. officials do not have specific knowledge about where, when or how an attack might take place.
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so basically, it seems that what they're saying is "hey, look what they did to spain, and since it worked, they might want to try it again in other places. and we've got an election coming up. but we have no information on when, where, or how it would happen, or that it's actually being planned, but it could!!!"
my response?
well duh.
i don't think anyone thinks that it's not a possibility after what happened in spain, but making an announcement with no information on where, when or how and not changing the alert level is just scare mongering.
and not saying that they would use that as an excuse to declare martial law and keep the election from happening, but at the very least it seems like this could be the foundation for such an event (although a rather unlikely one, imo).