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Bush won't say it...but I will.

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Wednesday July 27, 2005 01:54author by bill in portland maine Report this post to the editors

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Excerpt below / Worth reading the rest:

"t happens once or twice a year in most towns and usually makes the front page of the local section: Mailbox damaged by M80 firecracker. Kids suspected. Sometimes the culprits are caught, sometimes they aren't, but life goes on and nobody really cares except the mailbox owner. Besides, didn't we all try that at one time or another? Ha ha ha...crazy kids.

But what if you woke up and saw this headline: Vandals destroy 20 mailboxes in county within 24 hour period. That'd wipe the smirk off your face real quick, wouldn't it?

How about, Police seeking clues related to 40 homemade explosives found within 200-mile area. What if 40 became 50? 55? 60 explosives? It'd be front-page, above-the-fold news for days, even weeks.

How about, BLACK WEDNESDAY!! 65 explosions shatter windows, destroy vehicles, stop traffic and kill 20? Now you're talking major crisis. Now you're talking headlines in the national media, non-stop chatter on cable news, networks interrupting their soap operas. The terror alert would go to `Red.' Homeland Security would move in.

And then the unthinkable happens. 65 more explosions the next day. And the next. And the next. And the next. In your state. Your county. Your town. Your neighborhood.

The headlines would scream, in 99-point type, TERROR GRIPS STATE!! Citizens flee! A Panicked Nation Mourns! We'd be apoplectic. It would be so devastating that President Bush would make a prime time speech encouraging Americans to go shopping. Yes...it'd be that bad.

Well, the likelihood of 65 daily attacks happening in this country is remote if not zero, and we should thank our lucky stars for that.

In Iraq, they're not so lucky..."

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