old Satire Shmatire

Item 1: Bush baits the press with a "major" speech about the ongoing "War on Terrorism" revealing among other things that the Administration has disrupted 10 major Al Qaeda plots (cross his heart).

Item 2: New York goes on extra extra double orange alert because of a credible specific threat to the Subway system. Listening to CNN they said the FBI discounted the viability of the threat several days ago, but it's true you can't be too careful these days. Are you scared yet?

Item 3: NBC reports a rift on Al Qaeda reporting on an intercepted communique between the top dogs in Iraq and the #2 man holed up with Osama. Great to know these guys are feuding amongst themselves and raising the whole specter of "big" Al Qaeda plans.

Sooooo what do you think of the timing of all these things? One of the time tested proven ways of maintaining support for the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq is to continue to link it to terrorists (now true!, was false) and keep on scaring the crap out of the public.

Ya gotta wonder coincidence or orchestration!