"Whatever happened to that New York Sun article that was to come out monday am??"
Hanoi Approved of Role Played By Kerry and VVAW
http://www.nysun.com/article/3756
If JFK really believed in these troops, he would have already been to Iraq and told them himself.
The following came from a poster on the Belmont Club, http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2004/10/rdx-part-2-michael-totten-at.html . It's pretty scary stuff. I hope this guy's wrong:
"The NYT story is NOT the October surprise. It is the set-up to the October surprise.
NO ... I do not impute nor do I believe there is a conspiracy afoot. I believe that the NYT is merely doing what was entirely predictable, as has ElBaradei.
JFK has in large part based his campaign on the hopes for a Madrid type reckoning. By insincerely and persistently harping on W's alleged failure and purported incompetence in protecting the homeland, JFK has day after day pointed to a powerful factor favoring W's re-election: no further attacks after 9-11. Anybody with an ounce of sense would otherwise be discretely quiet on the matter, even knowing that W cannot tempt fate by pointing to this fact.
This is especially so, because anyone who is not affirmatively amoral would understand the theme would be understood by jihad as inviting an attack.
Why continually point to this fact favorable to W? Especially when it is readily understood as an invitation to attack? Because JFK expects and is inviting a Madrid attack, to vindicate his criticism of W, and to shape the aftermath in his favor.
The question has been how JFK's "I told you so" would take shape. In the aftermath of tragedy, no one wants to appear to take advantage. The myrmidons somehow would be set loose in some fashion ... making sure no one missed the point that W was at fault ... seemed to be the way it had to go.
But here we have the perfect set-up, a much better tact: and not a conspiracy at all, just a serendipity of malicious minds, all on the same wave-length, all understanding the power of the big payoff, all anticipating and hoping for the jihadis to do what they devoutly desire and regard as the principal good, the defeat of George Bush.
All things being equal, no American gives a rat's posterior about the missing explosives, at least not in terms of how he will vote. Nor does the "bungling Bush" trope have any resonance anymore, standing alone.
But ElBaradei understands, and the NYT understands, that the image of a bungling George Bush allowing "devastating" explosives to escape thru sheer incompetence, is the perfect prelude to the devastating use of explosives in America, mere days before the election. And personally, I would not be at all surprised if the myrmidons actually attempt to identify the explosives as HMX and RDX.
Forget about the truth or logic of the matter. The only "reality" as far as Kerry or ElBaradei or the NYT is concerned, is that an incompetent moron allowed devastating explosives to become available under circumstances where the incompetent moron was too stupid to protect our homeland. The devastating jihadi attack, answering the r.s.v.p. of their fellow haters, would neatly tie together major, endlessly reiterated themes of the Kerry campaign, with no time at all to formulate a rational answer.
This story is despicable and heartless, but not as a clumsy bit of propaganda. It reveals the souless hatred of the left, who hope for and invite murder. It gets no more sophisticated than the only commandment they honor: the ends justify any means."