The beauty of Atrios’s style lies in something Bill O’Reilly likes to call ‘pithiness.’ Duncan gets right to the point.
Not Exactly Surprising
But if you think that using the threat of terrorism for political purposes would be more interesting to the Villagers than Michelle Obama’s shorts, you’re probably wrong.
And just so it’s clear: using the threat of terrorism to try to achieve political goals is, you know, what terrorists do.
He’s referring to this:
[Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom] Ridge was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings; was “blindsided” by the FBI in morning Oval Office meetings because the agency withheld critical information from him; found his urgings to block Michael Brown from being named head of the emergency agency blamed for the Hurricane Katrina disaster ignored; and was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush’s re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over…
I would argue that the Bush response to terrorism in late 2001 to 2005 was to terrorize the American people with threats of imminent widespread death.
And now he’s attempting to profit from the book sales based, at least in part, on this disclosure.
Yes, as kansas and I used say, we go to Atrios for quickies. 🙂
Amazing that Tom Ridge is now going to make money off of his acquiescence to this domestic terrorism.
Mmhm. These people seem to think that they should get a lot of credit for doing something they realized was wrong at the time and regretting it later.
Silly me. I thought the idea was to realize that doing something is wrong, and then not do it.
But I guess that’s why I’m just some schmoe with a keyboard and Tom Ridge is a former administration official.
Ridge just another Bush Admin. loser too weak to tell W no. And now trying to make a profit for being weak.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32501273/ns/us_news-security/
supposedly an update from msnbc..