Per the poll charts provided by Tom Johnson last week, this chart adds the
terror alert timings to the mix, enough to confirm most cynicisms...half the
Americans believe and half are cynics (with more being converted every day
apparently).
However, it is not that the cynics believe that there is no terror threat
(as marketed by the administration), just the opposite, the cynics are just
very cynical that this administration is honest with the facts or purposes,
or more importantly, the command. Leadership by fear mongering. The cynics
know that attacks will come, we also know that this administration has been
grievously wrong time after time with its "intelligence," including with key
data leading up to the 9/11 attacks, and is ill prepared to "get it right."
Strategy: Cry wolf often enough and sooner or later fate will intervene for
the big "I told you so"?
I remember seeing a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal leading up to
the Iraqi invasion, paid for by conservative business, whose message was:
"Invade Iraq, Create a Billion Terrorists."
History will likely prove the poignancy of this observation. Chart those
numbers.
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http://juliusblog.blogspot.com/>> 2004_08_01_juliusblog_archive.html#1091564765 70482138>
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>> To quote from the juliusblog:
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>> I have put together a chart comparing Bush approval numbers to the timeline
>> of terror alerts. (Thanks to Stuart Eugene Thiel for his amazing daily
>> graphics that he prepares, comparing the approval ratings from different
>> polls. )You can see it by clicking in the graphic below:
>>
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http://photos1.blogger.com/img/227/958/640/approval_alert_graph2.jpg>
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>> There are few things that are quite evident from the chart:
>>
>> - Whenever his ratings dip, there's a new terror alert.
>>
>> - Every terror alert is followed by a slight uptick of Bush approval ratings.
>>
>> - As we approach the 2004 elections, the number and frequency of terror
>> alerts keeps growing, to the point that they collapse in the graphic. At the
>> same time, Bush ratings are lower than ever.
>>
>>
>> # Posted by Julius Civitatus @ 6:01 PM
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