Posted on 08/10/2006 9:19:02 AM PDT by nutmeg
BOSTON --Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Thursday activated the National Guard to help with security at Logan International Airport for the first time since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, after a terror plot targeting U.S.-bound flights was foiled in London.
The security alert was raised at Logan and airports around the nation early Thursday after officials in Great Britain disrupted a plan to blow up airplanes from England to the United States.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the plot appeared to be engineered by al-Qaida, the terrorist group that hijacked two planes from Logan on Sept. 11, 2001, and flew them into the World Trade Center towers in New York.
The National Guard was last activated to help with patrols at Logan shortly after the attacks. Troops were removed in April 2002.
Romney said the flights targeted in the most recent plot were not Logan-bound flights, but he would not elaborate on their other destinations. He cited Logan's involvement in the Sept. 11 attack in justifying his decision to deploy the Guard.
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ping!
The voting RATS are morons of the highest order. Unexcelled stupidity.
How long before we hear the "fearmongering" charge from the left?
In a local radio interview yesterday, Ned Lamont alluded that Bush was responsible for the "instability in the middle east", and danced around the idea that he was also responsible for the current war between Hezbollah and Israel. Freakin' unbelieveable...
Ned Lamont alluded that Bush was responsible for the "instability in the middle east", and danced around the idea that he was also responsible for the current war between Hezbollah and Israel. Freakin' unbelieveable...
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In a perverse way, this is good news. The left is so whacked-out and moving MORE AND MORE to the left, it is going to cost them. They have absolutely no reason to exist, other than to criticize, to lie, to make trouble, to be highly un-American, highly anti-military...their sick existence speaks for itself.
Mitt is a smart man, perhaps not conservative enough for most of us, but fully capable of dusting off the Hildabeast in a presidential election. He would be, of course, an infinitely better President than the dreadful Hillary Rodham Rodham, who must be stopped at all costs.
If the terrorists are going to strike Logan, they'd best do it now, before the heat dies down.
I hope you're right. I know of too many liberals - and even some "moderates" here in the People's Republik of Connecticut (and throughout the northeast) who fully buy into Ned Lamont's mindset that Bush and conservatives are responsible for "all the instability in the middle east"... "Bush shouldn't have disturbed the hornet's nest", and "that's why we're currently living in such a dangerous world". And they DO vote...
I hear ya. The liberals, especially the blind, hardcore ones, have nothing to grasp onto. No reality. So they create their own reality, and with today's libs, it is a reality of hate and blame. They cannot look to any lib "leader" because there are none. It is just a "party" (mob) of trouble-makers, thugs, liars, treasonists, etc. that can GIVE NOTHING to their constituency. It is sad for America that there are people that cannot see that the FDR/JFK type of libs are gone with history and they just have a bunch of raving maniacs now.
Let's hope that the more crazy and moronic the socialists get, the more liberals will walk away from them and get some sense of reality.
I am sure there will be more incidents like this. Of course, Rove will have to capture OBL right before election time too.
....and Mitt is "easy on the eyes" too.
Just heard that Arnold is calling up the NG for California airports too.
What? Doesn't Mitt trust the 4-inch long fingernailed former (and like should still be current) welfare recipients he has guarding the gates already?
A good move on Romney's part.
I'm not sure what the Guard can do to stop them, but their presence would probably discourage an attack.
Hmmm....that should terminate any plans for attacks at airports in CA. Good political move too.
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