Nightline fear factor propaganda

[In Truth We Trust]

Here we go with pseudo "journalism" talking about terrorists getting nukes. Subliminal attempt to sway public to vote chimp. Their strategy: make em sick and make em well. Without bush we could be dirty bombed; my reaction is: without bush and like policies we have nothing to fear!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

1. I didn't see it, but if they were focusing on Khan and N.K.

and Bush basically expressed no concern (which he did), as a voter, I'd be very concerned about the double standard shown.

[Stephanie]

2. What did he say? I turned it on at the last minute

I think that was John Bolten? (sp?) Scary freak IIRC.

[Stephanie]

3. Check it out - they are advertising that this is their strategy

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How Bush can destroy Kerry fast
by Dick Morris

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It is now up to President Bush to take advantage of this by implementing a three-part strategy in the coming campaign.

First, his paid media must attack Kerry’s voting record to define him as an ultraliberal. There are likely those in the White House who are urging Bush to run positive ads. That won’t work. Even if positive ads produce a small, short-term bounce for Bush, events soon will come to dominate, and the impact of those ads likely will evaporate.

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Second, while his anti-Kerry ads are running, the president himself needs to make Americans understand that the war on terror is still atop our national agenda. He needs to elevate the sense of threat so that his advantage as a war president begins to count.

http://www.thehill.com/morris/030404.aspx

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[Stephanie]

4. Yeah - John Bolton. I think the guy's a real extremist

I hope someone who watches this will post what he had to say. I'm curious.

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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/07/16/bolton/index_np.html

John Bolton vs. the world
His job is to keep a hawk eye on dovish Colin Powell. And he's helped turn Bush foreign policy into an ideological hammer.

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By Nicholas Thompson

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July 16, 2003 | When Jesse Helms, R-N.C., urged his fellow senators in March 2001 to confirm a longtime friend as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, he gave an endorsement that was, quite literally, out of this world.

"John Bolton," Helms said, "is the kind of man with whom I would want to stand at Armageddon, or what the Bible describes as the final battle between good and evil."

Bolton, who passed on a 57-43 vote, plays a much more important role than the flow charts suggest. He's a hard-line conservative whose intellectual and moral views are simpatico with those of President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and most of the higher-ups in the National Security Council and Defense Department. Well before the accuracy of the president's rationale for waging a war in Iraq was questioned, Bolton was installed to help forge the administration's aggressive new foreign policy. His philosophy? To exaggerate slightly, Bolton believes the relationship between America and the rest of the world should resemble that between a hammer and a nail.

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[Stephanie]

5. Did anyone see this last night?

I'm still curious to know what he said.

[ulTRAX]

6. Wrath of Kahn

Kahn's little nuke network seemed to be motivated by ideology and greed. He wanted the Islamic world to stand up to the west. In doing so he was willing to sell to disreputable nations seeking to violate obligations they agreed to under the nuclear nonproliferation pact. I see this as troubling even if you don't. While some nations may just wanted nuclear arms as a deterrent... Kahn proved if he could be willing to deal with anyone with cash... then those he sold to might as well... and sell nuclear technology to those willing to use it.

[Stephanie]

7. You might want to read this:

Archived thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1182375

July Surprise?

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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040308fa_fact

THE DEAL
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Why is Washington going easy on Pakistan’s nuclear black marketers?
Issue of 2004-03-08
Posted 2004-03-01

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Musharraf, who seized power in a coup d’état in 1999, has been a major ally of the Bush Administration in the war on terrorism. According to past and present military and intelligence officials, however, Washington’s support for the pardon of Khan was predicated on what Musharraf has agreed to do next: look the other way as the U.S. hunts for Osama bin Laden in a tribal area of northwest Pakistan dominated by the forbidding Hindu Kush mountain range, where he is believed to be operating. American commanders have been eager for permission to conduct major sweeps in the Hindu Kush for some time, and Musharraf has repeatedly refused them. Now, with Musharraf’s agreement, the Administration has authorized a major spring offensive that will involve the movement of thousands of American troops.

Musharraf has proffered other help as well. A former senior intelligence official said to me, “Musharraf told us, ‘We’ve got guys inside. The people who provide fresh fruits and vegetables and herd the goats’” for bin Laden and his Al Qaeda followers. “It’s a quid pro quo: we’re going to get our troops inside Pakistan in return for not forcing Musharraf to deal with Khan.”

The spring offensive could diminish the tempo of American operations in Iraq. “It’s going to be a full-court press,” one Pentagon planner said. Some of the most highly skilled Special Forces units, such as Task Force 121, will be shifted from Iraq to Pakistan. Special Forces personnel around the world have been briefed on their new assignments, one military adviser told me, and in some cases have been given “warning orders”—the stage before being sent into combat.

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The greatest risk may be not to Musharraf, or to the stability of South Asia, but to the ability of the international nuclear monitoring institutions to do their work. Many experts fear that, with Khan’s help, the world has moved closer to a nuclear tipping point. Husain Haqqani, who was a special assistant to three prime ministers before Musharraf came to power and is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, noted, with some pride, that his nation had managed to make the bomb despite American sanctions. But now, he told me, Khan and his colleagues have gone wholesale: “Once they had the bomb, they had a shopping list of what to buy and where. A. Q. Khan can bring a plain piece of paper and show me how to get it done—the countries, people, and telephone numbers. ‘This is the guy in Russia who can get you small quantities of enriched uranium. You in Malaysia will manufacture the stuff. Here’s who will miniaturize the warhead. And then go to North Korea and get the damn missile.’” He added, “This is not a few scientists pocketing money and getting rich. It’s a state policy.”

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