Here’s an afterthought to my previous post. Since yesterday the news has been filled with stories about the foiled terrorist plot. From what I’ve been hearing, the plot was the real deal. There are 24 suspects in custody, and the names of 19 have been released. So yes, Virginia — there was a plot.
We have to remember, though, that the people who are telling us there was a plot are the very same people who told us that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and that he had ties to Al Qaeda which implicated him in the destruction of the Twin Towers on 9/11. As we all know, those claims turned out to be bogus. Were they based on flawed intelligence, as we’ve been told? Was the intelligence skewed to fit the desires of the Bush administration? Or was it all a pack of deliberate lies?
There once was a time when if the government said something, I generally believed it. But that was long ago. Over the years I’ve become more and more skeptical — until now, when if the government says something, I tend to think the opposite is true. Personally, I think it’s damn sad.
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