The United States is bracing for possible terrorist attacks before the November presidential election, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.
The opportunity for terrorists to try to influence the election, as was the case last month in Spain, appears to be an opportunity that would "be too good to pass up for them," Rice said.
"I think that we do have to take very seriously the thought that the terrorists might have learned, we hope, the wrong lesson from Spain," Rice told "Fox News Sunday."
AP/Yahoo Apr.18.04
Outgoing Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar says he believes the terrorist bombings last month in Madrid caused his party to lose an expected election victory.
Spanish Prime Minister Aznar said he is certain terrorists planned the Madrid bombings a few days before the Spanish election in order to affect the outcome.
Voice of America Apr.18.04
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Who points, aptly enough, to two plausible outcomes. One, the loser has a big excuse. Two, the excuse could as well be applied to the elections. No time for that stuff kids, we've been attacked!
I would need a lot of convincing to relinquish the sceptical suspicion the Israelis had something to do with Madrid.
And Sistani. I know there's a lot of underground/hate group scuttlebutt that the Israelis knew about the WTC. And there's a lot of suspicious stuff besides, the USS Cole etc. So, more baseless accusations don't really help, but this is a narrowing moment we inhabit. It's getting close. And the evidence all points to that. It smells like that, it feels like that.
And the total separation of this political apocalyptic chaos from the environmental apocalyptic chaos that grows with equal intensity seems almost by design. Schizophrenic disjunction induced by cognitive dissonance.
Human life cheapens by the minute.
