The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that a study from political scientists at Columbia University demonstrates what many of us have long suspected, Bush and his terror, terror, terror, talk incites fear throughout the entire population and does the work of the terrorists almost as well as the terrorists. Yes, as I have long suspected, Bush is a terrorist, in league with the terrorists, it is that simple and this study verifies that assumption. In addition, it seems that the more scared people are the more they want Bush to protect them, he has effectively kidnapped the nation, and we are all now acting like little Patty Hearst’s running around aiding and abetting our captor, George W, Bush. And nobody aids and abets more than the indistinguishable people like Dixie who cover message boards all over America with their fear-mongering and ranting and raving about how the terrorists are coming to get us and the only person who can save us is Bush and his war on terror.
When in fact, all the war on terror has accomplished is the complete destruction of three countries so far, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, while the terrorists find safe haven in Pakistan at the pleasure of the military dictator Gen. Musharraf, Bush’s buddy and ally in the war on terror. You might ask why he failed to have the elections he promised the Pakistani people a couple of years ago—turns out they weren’t ready for it yet. Pakistan has suffered almost no damage in the war on terror and they got an up front payment of $80 Billion, a signing bonus for agreeing early on to help Bush wage his war on terror. And who are rebuilding these three hapless countries of Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Iraq, Bush administration free market types and supporters with their no-competition, no-bid, open-ended risk free cost-plus contracts and their willingness to begin any project and work them and collect payments until they are so far over any reasonable cost that a project analysis can support and then they are shut down, given a huge one time pay-out and off they run to some new unimaginably difficult task like building a water treatment plant, or drilling a well and the process repeats itself and the war drags on.
Now Bush is making additional funds, beyond the $200 or so million that he has already sent to Lebanon as a down payment on the untold $Billions it will take to rebuild that country, dependent on the employment of the same contractors who are doing such a bang-up job in Afghanistan and Iraq. But the people of Lebanon are telling Bush to take his money back to New Orleans and rebuild his own country first, which has to sting. In the meantime, he keeps talking terror every other day and the American people are getting more and more scared that we are going to be attacked soon, Bush says we have to be alert and of course the main person we have to be alert for and fearful of is Bush…He’s in league with the terrorists.
9/11: FIVE YEARS LATER
Alerts aid terror goals, study finds
Intense media scrutiny and politicians' rhetoric heighten sense of fear, researchers say
Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
With the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks fast approaching, President Bush took to the podium Tuesday to speak to Americans about his administration's global war on terror.
Three things can be expected from Bush's speech, according to a new study by three Columbia University researchers: The media will repeat the president's remarks. Public fear of terrorism will increase. And the president's poll numbers will rise.
Those have been the effects of presidential pronouncements on terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks, according to political scientists Brigitte Nacos, Yaeli Bloch-Elkon and Robert Shapiro, in a report prepared for this month's annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.
"These are interesting findings, and confirm what many of us had suspected," said Mark Juergensmeyer, director of Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara, who reviewed the research at the request of The Chronicle.
"This public panic benefits the terrorists whose work is made easier by an overactive government response that magnifies their efforts. In an odd way this puts the government and the terrorists in league with one another," he said. "The main loser, alas, is the terrified public."
The Columbia researchers looked at past scholarship on the subject and a new review of terror threats, official warnings and the coverage of both by the mass media since 2001, seeking to close what Nacos called a gap in research of how terrorists try to achieve their goals of fomenting fear, not only through attack but by threatening attack.
"The real new thing here is the mere threat, heavily mass mediated, achieves at least part of what actual terrorism achieves," Nacos said. "(Terrorists) want to intimidate, they want to spread fear and anxiety, and they want to take influence through the public on government officials."
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When in fact, all the war on terror has accomplished is the complete destruction of three countries so far, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, while the terrorists find safe haven in Pakistan at the pleasure of the military dictator Gen. Musharraf, Bush’s buddy and ally in the war on terror. You might ask why he failed to have the elections he promised the Pakistani people a couple of years ago—turns out they weren’t ready for it yet. Pakistan has suffered almost no damage in the war on terror and they got an up front payment of $80 Billion, a signing bonus for agreeing early on to help Bush wage his war on terror. And who are rebuilding these three hapless countries of Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Iraq, Bush administration free market types and supporters with their no-competition, no-bid, open-ended risk free cost-plus contracts and their willingness to begin any project and work them and collect payments until they are so far over any reasonable cost that a project analysis can support and then they are shut down, given a huge one time pay-out and off they run to some new unimaginably difficult task like building a water treatment plant, or drilling a well and the process repeats itself and the war drags on.
Now Bush is making additional funds, beyond the $200 or so million that he has already sent to Lebanon as a down payment on the untold $Billions it will take to rebuild that country, dependent on the employment of the same contractors who are doing such a bang-up job in Afghanistan and Iraq. But the people of Lebanon are telling Bush to take his money back to New Orleans and rebuild his own country first, which has to sting. In the meantime, he keeps talking terror every other day and the American people are getting more and more scared that we are going to be attacked soon, Bush says we have to be alert and of course the main person we have to be alert for and fearful of is Bush…He’s in league with the terrorists.
9/11: FIVE YEARS LATER
Alerts aid terror goals, study finds
Intense media scrutiny and politicians' rhetoric heighten sense of fear, researchers say
Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
With the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks fast approaching, President Bush took to the podium Tuesday to speak to Americans about his administration's global war on terror.
Three things can be expected from Bush's speech, according to a new study by three Columbia University researchers: The media will repeat the president's remarks. Public fear of terrorism will increase. And the president's poll numbers will rise.
Those have been the effects of presidential pronouncements on terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks, according to political scientists Brigitte Nacos, Yaeli Bloch-Elkon and Robert Shapiro, in a report prepared for this month's annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.
"These are interesting findings, and confirm what many of us had suspected," said Mark Juergensmeyer, director of Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara, who reviewed the research at the request of The Chronicle.
"This public panic benefits the terrorists whose work is made easier by an overactive government response that magnifies their efforts. In an odd way this puts the government and the terrorists in league with one another," he said. "The main loser, alas, is the terrified public."
The Columbia researchers looked at past scholarship on the subject and a new review of terror threats, official warnings and the coverage of both by the mass media since 2001, seeking to close what Nacos called a gap in research of how terrorists try to achieve their goals of fomenting fear, not only through attack but by threatening attack.
"The real new thing here is the mere threat, heavily mass mediated, achieves at least part of what actual terrorism achieves," Nacos said. "(Terrorists) want to intimidate, they want to spread fear and anxiety, and they want to take influence through the public on government officials."
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