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[winterbadger]

Thanks to snolan for this link.

Yes, the recent terror arrests were timed for US political purposes, in direct contradiction to what our British allies believed were the tactical and legal best practices of the operation.

Ned Lamont is not a tool of the terrorists, Mr Vice President. You and your party are: you are doing just what the terrorists want you to do: destroying democracy for your personal and political gain.

Anyone remember how the conservative Republicans, including members of our own administration, had identified the Taliban and the Saudi conservatives as potential allies in the UN to help fight against the expansion of women's rights and the spread of progressive thinking on family planning? It seems very ironic that the people who are insisting that they are the only leaders capable of defeating our current enemies are those who until the war began were closest to them.

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[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

There were a few folks on brits_americans who feel that way as well---that this is all a big conspiracy. Riiiight.

[winterbadger]

Well, why else rush the arrests? The British were presumably the most likely to be concerned about the safety of British airports, so it's not likely that the issue was safety.

The conspsirators didn't have airline tickets or passports yet? And they were an imminent threat why?

I was very skeptical of the amount of conspiracy-theorying going around on b_a too, but this sounds like the US insisted it had to be *that* week. And endangered the legal case agaisnt the guy picked up in Pakistan as a result, even though AG Gonzalez (Mr "Evidence Obtained Under Torture Should be Legally Admissable") said that details of the operation would be withheld from the public so as to protect the British legal process.

[jan-rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

it has been 'a conspiracy' ever since Tony Blair sold every moral he had to the Bushco crusade.


they're actually fairly open about it. the politics is now rather more akin to a Mony Python sketch

[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

I don't even have the energy to be bitter and cynical anymore; it's beyond the pale.

[jan-rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

quite.


I'm rapidly heading there myself.

[winterbadger]

Well, the area literally beyond the Pale is supposed to be quite nice and, though probably full of former terrorists, quote terrorism-free at the moment.

[jan-rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

what impresses me the most is how long it took for B&B to figure out that you can't stop a terrorist organisation by bombing their alleged host country.


they, like uhhhh.. go somewhere else, dudes.

[winterbadger]

And they still haven't grasped (well Bush hasn't) that "we're gonna fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here at home" is nonsense. Of course, this is the same eprson who made a speech about how Iran has to stop supplying terrorists in Lebanon and Iraq and how the US will keep standing firm against AQ. Uh, Mr President? Iran isn't supplying AQ. AQ isn't fighting in Lebanon. The *US* isn't fighting in Lebanon. What are you wittering on about?"

I hear his brother Jeb is much smarter; when *he* gets elected president...

[jan-rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

we'll all just roll over and die.

I get yah :)

of course it still amuses me on a regular [read hourly] basis that the most powerful man on earth is a complete dipshit.

Ahhh, the power of Democracy. That'll wake you up in the mornin'