Bush, Terror Alerts and the 2004 election

[techi]

Tom Ridge: I Was Pressured To Raise Terror Alert To Help Bush Win
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/tom-ridge-i-was-pressured_n_264127.html

Not at all suprised that Bush&Co would have tried to do this but I am surprised that a Republican is openly ratting on Bush.

[Rogers]

Again, it's all about spreading the politics of fear...

The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2798679275960015727
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares

It's no surprise that the right and their followers are so religious. Ooooo, bogeyman *insert Osama, Saddam, Lenin, Stalin, Ahmadinejad, or Satan here* will get you!!!

[Rogers]

Security and the "Reptilian Brain"

"With thousands of nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert (and the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty in the balance); our armed forces taxed to the limit, a radicalized Islamic culture war and an irascible Russia, and Iran; with our economy on the brink of disaster, and our standing in the world anemic at best, we can not afford a commander in chief whose knee-jerk reaction to everything is aggression, war, and deregulation, with no cultural understanding of the so-called 'enemies' we face, whose policies are informed by war profiteers and fundamentalist religious figures who believe that that 'these are the end of days,' and that "we must be prepared to die."** This is not security."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lili-haydn/security-and-the-reptilia_b_128339.html

The Triune Brain
http://www.kheper.net/topics/intelligence/MacLean.htm

[Rogers]

Team B
Advisors included: Paul Wolfowitz

"Team B, approved by then Director of Central Intelligence George H. W. Bush, was composed of "outside experts" who attempted to counter the positions of intelligence officials within the CIA known as Team A.[1]"

"According to Fred Kaplan, "In retrospect, the Team B report (which has since been declassified) turns out to have been wrong on nearly every point.[27]... Some members were even considering promoting a first strike policy against the U.S.S.R.[11][29][8]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B

Sound familiar? Over 20 years later:

Office of Special Plans
"The Office of Special Plans (OSP), which existed from September 2002 to June 2003, was a Pentagon unit created by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans