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Based on selected comments from various officials such as FBI Director Mueller and General Tommy Franks, it appears to me that the groundwork is being laid by Bush and his supporters to exploit a terrorist attack, if one occurs near the November election, to Bush's advantage. FBI director Mueller's warnings that AQ might use a terrorist attack to influence our election like what happened in Spain(According to Bush loyalists anyway!) seemed to me like an attempt to make the American public think that, in the event of another terrorist attack occuring before the election, voting for Kerry (or anybody else BUT Bush) would be like voting for AQ and allowing AQ to subvert our electoral process (as if we would all vote for Bush otherwise!). I don't buy into that line of reasoning and I hope and pray that the rest of the public doesn't buy into it either should something happen right before the election. Statements made by General Tommy Franks are even more ominous suggesting the possibility that the martial law might be needed (and declared) in the event of another terrorist attack against our country. Interestingly enough, though, as bad as 9-11 was given the attack on the Pentagon (and the possibly planned but possibly thwarted attack on the White House and/or Congress?), Bush did not declare martial law then and any future attacks should not be any more likely to result in the need for martial law unless the devastation is massive and widespread. I mean, Israel has had to deal with almost daily suicide bombings and massive civilian casualities and surprisingly they have not had to resort to martial law yet. That Bush might try to exploit another terrorist attack by declaring martial law is a chilling prospect made even more chilling by the lengths that this administration has gone to prosecute their so-called "war on terror." Personally, I don't see any way that another terrorist attack can help Bush. I think that most people have decided to give Bush the benefit of the doubt when he and members of the administration insist that there was NOTHING that they could have done to prevent 9-11 but hopefully they will not be so quick to forgive them should something like 9-11 happen again under his watch. By now, it is beyond dispute that AQ wants to hurt us wherever US troops and/or civilians are and have several means at their disposal for doing so. Hopefully, Bush and Condi Rice will, in Condi's immortal words, "move heaven and earth" to prevent future terrorist attacks against the US (at least until November 2004 anyway!)!
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