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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 02:54 PM
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Time To Play... What's The Terror Alert Covering Up THIS Time !!!
I'm thinkin it's this: Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops

Link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031221/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_saddam_britain&cid=1514&ncid=1480

DU Thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=279094

But I just woke up (door dude at a bar), anybody have any other possibilities???

:shrug:
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 02:55 PM
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1. Bingo!
Plus the Christmas shopping season is just about over, so it won't hurt retail sales too much.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 02:55 PM
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2. Khadafi is behind a terrorist attack in the planning...
...and he has protected himself from speculation by his recent agreement? :)
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 02:59 PM
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3. maybe to cover for the upcoming attack
on dems if they don't pass the omnibus bill which includes all the bits of patriot act 2 in pieces, along with major, major pork for all those "fiscally conservative" repukes.. LOL.

I dunno...did they warn about the anthrax attack before that bit of psychological terrorism on Congress?
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:03 PM
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6. Oh Hell No... They Don't Warn Before The Attacks They Want...
to succeed!!!

:nuke:
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KeepItReal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:01 PM
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4. Saddam held by Kurds...X-mas sales down...Democrats on attack..
What else did I miss?
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:52 PM
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20. Don't forget to include - Bush* got a whopping...
three point bounce after capturing Saddam...Three points, and that's after the spin! Are we safer yet?
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:02 PM
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5. Another Bush vacation?
I mean come on, it is Christmas and the girls will be home. Can you say par-tay?
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:05 PM
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8. PAR- TAY !!! --- We Need To Come Up With Color Coded Cocktails...
to get us through these dispeptic times, no???

:beer::smoke::party:
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:08 PM
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9. Color-coded booze
Try this:

Red: just gimme the bottle - scotch or boubon, I don't care!
Orange: martini
Yellow: gin & tonic
Blue: a girlie drink
Green: a beer
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KeepItReal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:12 PM
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10. Heck...I was at Orange level last nite!
Must have been due to all that chatter in the room...
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:15 PM
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12. LOL !!! --- Well... I Was At Orange And A Half... Jack Daniels, Neat !!!
:hangover:
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:18 PM
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13. I'd say that's the red zone, Willy
Feel free to modify the booze color-coding....

I'm tempted to switch beer and girlie drink.... but, since I'm mellow and never drink girlie drinks, leaving it as it is indicates that I'm not buying into the threat bizness. Call me naive, but brewskies are mellow on the booze scale.
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sexybomber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 09:49 PM
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35. yeah
Edited on Sun Dec-21-03 09:49 PM by sexybomber
I'd say it's like:

Uber-Red - Tequila, straight from the bottle
Red - Jack straight
Orange - Jack & Coke
Yellow - Martinis, Gin & Tonic
Green - Screwdrivers, things made with fruit juices
Blue - Beer.
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-03 12:14 AM
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37. Yeah... I like your list
Works for me... though I'm not much for tequila straight. But, I can learn.
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:05 PM
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7. To convince Murikans that the War on Terra is never finished...
That would be my guess,Bush doesn't want a bunch of softies thinking that with the capture of SH that we could actually start getting the FUCK out of Iraq.

Nope,keep that "fear factor" on high all the way to Nov 2004!!!!!


David
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 10:06 PM
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36. That's about the size of it!
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Killarney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:13 PM
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11. That Iraq doesn't have WMD and Saddam was telling the truth
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:22 PM
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14. Check out this for a terror scenario
It's the end of the world in cartoon form:

http://members.cox.net/impunity/endofworld.swf
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:24 PM
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15. Try This One.
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:34 PM
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16. Hmmm.... Veeeerrryyy Interesting !!! --- I Like It !
:bounce::kick::bounce:
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Military Brat Donating Member (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:40 PM
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17. The stage-crafted "capture" of Hussein
and the anticipated drop in polls.
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TygrBright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:43 PM
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18. Oh, gee, is there another Terralert?
I must have missed that one with all the dreck in the newspapers about the retail shopping season, maudlin do-gooders, useless "gift ideas" and fights between local politicians....

But maybe that was on the *other* page one? The one the evil terrorists took off my newspaper before I got it?

Because everyone knows that they would only ever issue a Terralert when there is REAL REASON TO WORRY....

I think I'll make a batch of eggnog and take it back to bed with me...

anxiously,
Bright
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mandyky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 03:49 PM
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19. Not so much a cover up but a way
to keep folks like Jose Pedilla incommunicado and as an enemy combatant.
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goobergunch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 04:33 PM
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22. My thoughts exactly.
It's an attempt to pressure the courts into staying the 30-day order.
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spotbird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 04:11 PM
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21. Maybe there is an increased threat?
Really, after 9/11 there was discussion that AQ waits two or more years between major attacks so that its targets let their guard down. If there really is an increased threat the Clintons aren’t around to thwart it so we may be in for another big one. * is off the hook because he warned us before he went into hiding (who thinks he is at Camp David?), and whatever is left of Democracy is gone forever.

How long will DU remain here if there is another attack? Our kind of speech couldn’t be tolerated when the next crackdown occurs. Two years ago I wouldn’t have even thought a thing like that, much less speak it, now I have very little doubt about it. Where is the tin foil?
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anakie Donating Member (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 04:48 PM
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23. let's see
9/11 enquiry, Enron, Shrub's druggie and wandering past, quagmire in Iraq, economy and dropping dollar, plans for a draft, SH's capture, where's Osama etc.

Could be anything and nothing would surprise
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Nashyra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 05:26 PM
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24. Probably that Saddam was captured by Kurds
and he is probably singing like a bird about the Regan, *1 and Rumsfield connections. Probably getting the story out that it was US gas that killed the kurds.
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moondust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 05:30 PM
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25. "We got him!" And now we return to our regularly scheduled war.
:puke:
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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 05:32 PM
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26. Dead and Buried stories 2003
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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 05:34 PM
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27. Cheney to be prosecuted?
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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 05:36 PM
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28. Rumsfeld OK'd Saddam's use of chemical weapons in March 1984
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 05:41 PM
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29. We Have Nothing To Fear But Bush Himself...
What the hell is the point of this ridiculous color coded nonsense, if not to distract? If they had some useful info like, don't take a plane, go to a mall, or whatever, but always the mind-boggling "don't change a thing!" advisorty THEN WHAT IS THE FREAKING POINT???
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stickdog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 06:18 PM
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30. I don't care what the Bush Administration says.
I feel a lot safer now that Hussein has been captured.
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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 06:25 PM
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31. cross-threading
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 08:02 PM
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32. Kick !!!
:kick:
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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 08:19 PM
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33. Well DONE, Evil DUers!!
"What is (insert current Regime Pronouncement) covering up?" is a question that needs to be asked EVERY time!

(Notice how fewer and fewer people are showing up to denounce you as :tinfoilhat: this year?)

:evilgrin:
dbt
(Looking back atcha through The Looking Glass)
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La Resistance Donating Member (265 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-03 09:42 PM
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34. I know a few people that work for TSA
They told me last night at dinner about the briefing they got yesterday at the start of their shift. From what they were briefed on, there is an informant (of Philippine-Muslim descent) who came to the FBI with some information involving a plot to blow up a plane between Dec. 24 and New Year's Day. the plot is quite sophisticated (C-4 loaded into the false bottom of a shaving cream can is one possible scenario) and it will be either a flight originating in the Philippines to be blown up over the middle Pacific or a cross-country flight over the US. The plot in its entirety is quite sophisticated from what was relayed to me. Now, like my friend said, this all seems really suspicious that someone with access to this much information would squeal. but then again it is entirely possible that it's a mole rather than a stool pidgeon. The specifics that were given to TSA kind of make me believe it a little more than the other warnings, but I'm still skeptical that they could pull that off.
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