So when will Bush attack the U.S. ?

[Mao Tse Tongue]

Don't laugh, there are many people who think that Bush will provoke an attack, either in the U.S. or abroad, declare martial law, and legally postpone the election.

Sounds ridiculous? If Kerry gains momentum, it's only a question of how, not when.

Thoughts?

 

[Don]

If this happens, I'll buy you a beer because this is as whack a conspiracy theory as I've ever heard.

I can see, however, an amazing capture of Osama Bin Laden happening right before the elections....

 

[Mao Tse Tongue]

I agree it's nice and paranoid, but it gives you some sense of how much suspician and fear Bush had engendered.

The "capture" of Bin Laden right around election time would strike many sane people as paranoid and conspiratorial in another age, but today, it's just part of the Wag The Dog Presidential Manual. No one would be surprised.

In another era, trumping up "weapons of mass distraction" to settle some Bush Daddy scores would sound silly, a function of too much weed and too many late nights. It actually happened.

Etc etc.


There are very few things I would put past Cheney, Wolfowitz and the crazy old white men who surround Bush.

 

[Don]

There are very few things I would put past Cheney, Wolfowitz and the crazy old white men who surround Bush.

I guess we can count out Condi and Colin out of the scheming!

Anyway like you said, you never know. I do have a pretty pessimistic view of society so who knows? Maybe I will be buying you a beer later in the year. But I just can't imagine that scenario.

 

[Girth]

If this happens, I'll buy you a beer because this is as whack a conspiracy theory as I've ever heard.

I

It actually isn't that whacked. Plenty of anti-Clinton folks thought the same thing in late 2000.

 

[Mao Tse Tongue]

Re: Re: So when will Bush attack the U.S. ?

There is no provision in the US Constitution to delay a national vote even for a natural disaster. Also the US has nothing similar to the Canadian War Measures Act, so there is no legal ability to even declare martial law. There is no way the military would ever back Bush in such a move - hell most of the Officer Corp. hates Rumsfield.

No, there is no chance Bush would try such a thing even if he trails Kerry by 10 pts (OTB) so it's not a question of how, it is a question of when - 2nd Tuesday in November - if anything sneaky happens it will be vote fraud, and even that I doubt Bush would do.

Really?

Have a look at this:

http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=006277

According to Newsweek, in July counterterrorism officials at the State Department were reviewing "a postponement proposal."

Michael Isikoff, the article's author comments: "...with this administration, you never believe they'll do something. And then they do it."

So there.