This is all getting a little creepy. Things seem to be coming to a head this week, with Bush declaring himself all-powerful emporer in the event of a national emergency and the newly announced "covert" war within Iran.
What are they gearing up for?
Now another unbelievable tidbit. Bush just declassified intelligience for an upcoming speech. He is to reveal with great fanfare this week that Al Qaeda has plans to use Iraq as a home base in order to launch attacks on the United States.
President Bush on Tuesday declassified intelligence showing in 2005 Osama bin Laden planned to use Iraq as a base from which to launch attacks in the United States, according to White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe.
Johndroe said the intelligence was declassified so the president could discuss the previously secret material on Wednesday during a commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut.
The speech will be aimed at defending a key part of the president's war strategy -- the contention that the United States cannot withdraw from Iraq because al Qaeda would fill the vacuum in the Middle East.
Let me get this straight. Bush is using this piece of information to defend his war strategy?? He spent a half a trillion dollars and hundreds of thousands of innocent lives to turn Iraq (a once relatively stable country) into a terrorist base that Al Qaeda can now use to launch attacks against the United States.
"This shows why we believe al Qaeda wants to use Iraq as a safe haven," said Johndroe. He added the president will talk about al Qaeda's "strong interest in using Iraq as a safe haven to plot and plan attacks on the United States and other countries."
The decision also coincides with an ongoing push by the Democratic majority in Congress to force an end to U.S. involvement in Iraq.
Bin Laden and a top lieutenant -- Abu Faraj al-Libbi -- planned to form a terror cell in Iraq in order to launch those attacks, Johndroe said.
This is beyond sick and twisted. Bush single-handedly hands Al Qaeda a free training base and millions of potential recruits -- bitter Iraqis who now hate the United States.
And now he uses his own abysmal failure as a rationale to keep the US entangled in Iraq.
This all seems to be part of Bush/Cheney's grand apocalypic plan for supreme power. The US gets further mired in Iraq. We are less secure both at home and abroad. Our military and national guard get weaker as Al Qaeda gets stronger and stronger. We are pushing Iran to the brink of war.
And Bush has just annointed himself dictator in the event of a terrorist attack or other national emergency. This directive includes the right to "bring to justice" those who attack the United States, whereever they may be (Iran, anyone?).
I ask again, what are they gearing up for?? They are up to something.