Posted on 09/19/2004 8:20:40 PM PDT by kristinn
A worried Matt Drudge reported on his radio show tonight that the Secret Service is on the trail of several people intent on assassinating President Bush.
Drudge said the news story is not his, but that "those in the know" know what he's talking about.
He said more will be reported in the coming days.
Drudge pleaded with his fellow Americans to let the political process play out and to not descend to killing presidential candidates.
"Expect bombings and assignations."
Hollywood. So much violence and sex; sex and violence.
I hope all our pubbie congressfolks have good security. They won't bother with the demonrats.
Quick exit from Iraq is likely
September 20, 2004
BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Advertisement
Inside the Bush administration policymaking apparatus, there is strong feeling that U.S. troops must leave Iraq next year. This determination is not predicated on success in implanting Iraqi democracy and internal stability. Rather, the officials are saying: Ready or not, here we go.
This prospective policy is based on Iraq's national elections in late January, but not predicated on ending the insurgency or reaching a national political settlement. Getting out of Iraq would end the neoconservative dream of building democracy in the Arab world. The United States would be content having saved the world from Saddam Hussein's quest for weapons of mass destruction.
The reality of hard decisions ahead is obscured by blather on both sides in a presidential campaign. Six weeks before the election, Bush cannot be expected to admit even the possibility of a quick withdrawal. Sen. John Kerry's political aides, still languishing in fantastic speculation about European troops to the rescue, do not even ponder a quick exit. But Kerry supporters with foreign policy experience speculate that if elected, their candidate would take the same escape route.
Whether Bush or Kerry is elected, the president or president-elect will have to sit down immediately with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The military will tell the election winner there are insufficient U.S. forces in Iraq to wage effective war. That leaves three realistic options: Increase overall U.S. military strength to reinforce Iraq, stay with the present strength to continue the war, or get out.
Well-placed sources in the administration are confident Bush's decision will be to get out. They believe that is the recommendation of his national security team and would be the recommendation of second-term officials. An informed guess might have Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state, Paul Wolfowitz as defense secretary and Stephen Hadley as national security adviser. According to my sources, all would opt for a withdrawal.
Getting out now would not end expensive U.S. reconstruction of Iraq, and certainly would not stop the fighting. Without U.S. troops, the civil war cited as the worst-case outcome by the recently leaked National Intelligence Estimate would be a reality. It would then take a resolute president to stand aside while Iraqis battle it out.
The end product would be an imperfect Iraq, probably dominated by Shia Muslims seeking revenge over long oppression by the Sunni-controlled Baathist Party. The Kurds would remain in their current semi-autonomous state. Iraq would not be divided, reassuring neighboring countries -- especially Turkey -- that are apprehensive about ethnically divided nations.
This messy new Iraq is viewed by Bush officials as vastly preferable to Saddam's police state, threatening its neighbors and the West. In private, some officials believe the mistake was not in toppling Saddam but in staying there for nation building after the dictator was deposed.
Abandonment of building democracy in Iraq would be a terrible blow to the neoconservative dream. The Bush administration's drift from that idea is shown in restrained reaction to Russian President Vladimir Putin's seizure of power. While Bush officials would prefer a democratic Russia, they appreciate that Putin is determined to prevent his country from disintegrating as the Soviet Union did before it. A fragmented Russia, prey to terrorists, is not in the U.S. interest.
The Kerry campaign, realizing that its only hope is to attack Bush for his Iraq policy, is not equipped to make sober evaluations of Iraq. When I asked a Kerry political aide what his candidate would do in Iraq, he could do no better than repeat the old saw that help is on the way from European troops. Kerry's foreign policy advisers know there will be no release from that quarter.
In the Aug. 29 New York Times Magazine, columnist David Brooks wrote an article (''How to Reinvent the GOP'') that is regarded as a neo-con manifesto and not popular with other conservatives.
''We need to strengthen nation states,'' Brooks wrote, calling for ''a multilateral nation-building apparatus.'' To chastened Bush officials, that sounds like an invitation to repeat Iraq instead of making sure it never happens again.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak20.html
I would think the radical Liberals would do their best to protect GWB, I mean who do they hate more? The man who would succeed him Dick Cheney!
Seems that John Kerry is still carrying that shotgun around like he said he wished he had at the convention!
B H, your response is on that thread. Thanks.
Think jawbone of an ass...
as looney as the left has gone off the deep end. I always pray God's protection over our president.
Prayers for President Bush and his safety. My the Lord watch over and protect him.
Prayers for President Bush and his safety. May the Lord watch over and protect him.
He's well protected....not only by humans...The Lord is protecting him. He's got lots of days ahead of him. ;o)
Sooooo .. he's not capable of speaking for himself ..??
These Muslim extremists have made contact with the white supremacist fringe. The latter have anti-Semitism and conspiracy theory in common with al-Qaida, Hezbollah, etc. Much of what is posted on the Muslim Web sites regarding "Zionism" and Jewish-led conspiracies could have been taken from National Vanguard or the like. Indeed, "John Doe II," Timothy McVeigh's supposed accomplice, has been reported to be a Middle Easterner. Several people have reported seeing McVeigh and Nichols with Middle Eastern men prior to the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Conspiratorialist and white supremacist sites are brimming with dislike of the Bush family, often repeating tales of the President's grandfather, Prescott Bush, helping the Nazis and with the President the willing servant of "Zionist neo-cons." These tales could have been lifted from the writings of Lyndon LaRouche or the movies of Michael Moore and Oliver Stone.
Muslim terrorist agents, Russian and Chinese intelligence services, and their allies on the American Left would prefer that a person apparently clean of Islamic or Marxist ties would do the dirty work. An Anglo male with military background and The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in the back seat of his car would be ideal from their standpoint.
I pray the Secret Service and FBI diligently protect President Bush.
This is the kind of thing that I am afraid that a desperate democrat/liberal might resort to. lets just hope that the secret service has a good track on all these kooks.
I join in prayer for the safety of President Bush and for His guidance for our country.
I'm not planning anything. Passions are so high and anger is so rampant regarding political issues right now, I'd be shocked if such an event didn't spark even more violence and anger.
Reagan didn't die in office either. The person I was responding to said Reagan got Alzheimer's and inferred that was possibly the curse.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1221354/posts
This thread might explain the concern.
YOU SAID:
"Nixon was elected in'68 and he's dead!
253 posted on 09/20/2004 12:10:19 AM PDT by valleygal"
Which is why I said: Nixon didn't die in office.
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