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08/27/07 11:44 PM

#34376 RE: teapeebubbles #34375

Bush Fails Upward in 'War on Terror'
Like he's done all his life, every failure brought him reward
by Iven Eland

consortiumnews.com

Excerpt:
If a business provided inferior goods or shoddy services, it is likely that the business would go belly up.
Yet when Bush makes a blunder, the more its citizens reward his failure with further money and authority.

For example, after Bush exacerbated the worldwide threat from Islamic terrorists by invading and occupying
two Muslim nations, spied on Americans without warrants—which is both illegal and unconstitutional—to
“urgently” combat such terrorism, and then saw its Attorney General dissemble about the espionage program,
Congress has actually rewarded the administration for its actions.

Afraid of being labeled “soft on terrorism” after an administration report cleverly stoked public fear by hyping
al Qaeda’s regrouping, the legislators not only granted the administration legal authority for such warrantless
domestic spying, but widened it to include cases in which terrorism is not suspected.