http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10573-2004Oct6?language=printer
Scaring the shit out of us is Bush administration policy. At the same time we are supposed to trust them to protect us from terrorism AND insist that the Iraq war is necessary to keep the fight on their territory, we should be suffciently scared shitless. Scared, just enough and apparently dumb enough, to pull the lever for Bush and the GOP.
As the snip shows, the aim IS to stoke public fears. How about stoking our hopes!
And if this wasn't bad enough, we get a terror warning that terrorists might attack our schools, 7 weeks after the event in Russia(turtle timing, ohh Bush #s are collapsing).
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"The strongly worded speech, which indicted Kerry as a "tax-and-spend liberal," was timed to deflect criticism of Bush's Iraq policy from such key sources as former Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. weapons inspector and the State Department. A Bush adviser said the president hopes to change the dynamics of the race with more biting attacks on Kerry's record and trustworthiness and on what Bush charges is Kerry's reluctance to use U.S. military force to defeat terrorism. The strategy is aimed at stoking public fears about terrorism, raising new concerns about Kerry's ability to protect Americans and reinforcing Bush's image as the steady anti-terrorism candidate, aides said. "