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There is no commodity identified as a terrorist in this world, these are just "FALSE EXCUSES" to overpower oil wells or establish military bases anywhere, outside the jurisdiction.

FALSE FLAG OPERATION ANYONE?

OUR GOV'T ARE THE REAL TERRORIST.

A lot of responders seem to have their heads in the sand...poetic justice would be for an attack (I pray it doesn't happen) hits the Democrat National Convention. Then, would you boneheads believe the threat is real? For some of you zealots, you'd probably think, no, you would be CERTAIN our Govt did it.

Jr., California

Maybe YOU voted for that numbskull twice. Many of us recognized his gross incompetence after the first term and only voted for him once. Then there are those of us who never voted for him at all. Clearly the majority of Americans are now against him. And then there are those like myself who actually despise everything he is and everything he stands for. Perhaps it is you who should find another country to live in. I'd suggest sneaking into Mexico but they enforce their immigration laws there. And yes, God bless America...but not George Bush.

You're either with Bush or against him. If you don't like it, then find another country to live in. He is our President, we voted for him twice, and God bless America!

When was the last time the 'national threat level' changed? Correct, if you said before the 'last elections'. Fear mongering. Wake up America.

People be concerned about this comment.
If a terrorist attack were to come, Bush could possibly pull the "No elections–I'll remain President Card".

This would be dangerous for America and the world. Talk about the end of it.

Those who know, understand exactly what I'm talking about.

Wallace

Wow, Brad from Texas, that thought sure was "profound". About as "profound" as your great state of Texas executing the retarded on a regular basis. (How did you escape those pogroms, by the way?)
Since your understanding of geopolitics and imperialist hegemony obviously comes from reading the can of Cheez Whiz that you invert above your mouth, allow me to utter one word for you to ponder: "Reichstag".

Now run along to a dictionary and do your best.

The monsters we fear do not live in Baghdad. The monsters live in Washington D.C.

Tell us who the terrorist are??

The REPUBLICAN using FEAR to get reelected.

Terrorist uses fear to impose there ideas. That is the definition of terrorism. Republicans using fear to pass there ideas. Reelect me or terrorist will get you.

So who are the real terrorist??? WhiteHouse

If terrorist hit around election time It be Bush and republican that failed to stop em. Probably so they can get reelected.

The U.S. will probably also find Osama BL around the '08 elections, just before. I expect they could snatch him up right now, but the timing isn't correct, politically.

To: JR, California

Well JR you should be posting from Iraq then. If you agree so much. Suit up and go over there and if you to old to join the military then go as a civilian.

But if you are not doin that, then you need to shut up. It's just that simple. Funny how ALL the neo-cons that supported this war, will not go to Iraq to stand up for American interest. Military or civilian.

I know you won't have time to reply , as you shoulod have a plane to catch...To Iraq.

Yes Jr. I would probably vote for him if I were in the top 1% income bracket and had a great bunker built in my back yard. lmao You must have made a bundle. well good for you. Spend it fast though, its not worth much, and wont be worth spit soon.

Being an independent, I don't invest my time in partisan bickering. I just wonder what people really want our government to do.

Perhaps you can give Homeland Security our email addresses ONLY IF you want to be warned of any threat. It's your choice. Now can we move onto something constructive?

These fools are something out of a horror book. Junior George always wanted to be King.

Please, Jr. tell me you're about nine years old! You trust this man? The ecomony here in Michigan is going down the tubes because of past and current Republican tax cuts, among other things. We now have to raise taxes just to keep basic services and schools open. Yup, Bush has been super for Michigan all right.
And safer..not a bit! In fact, I fear this White House will stage an attack right around October, so bush can suspend elections, declare martial law, and be the King he thinks he is.
IMPEACH!!!

Operation Northwoods anybody?? Good ol' state sponsored terrorism at its best. Don't you love fear mongering? I sure love it. Can't wait for the chip in my forearm. Oh wait thats just for elderly...at the moment...We need a One World Order. Big Brother loves us all. *note my sarcasm*. Better yet a North American Union and Amero dollar. Coming to a town near you. I say to hell with that. Vote Ron Paul to end this fascist regime. PeacE to you all and all a good night.

You people are naive–this same tactic was used in Spain a few years ago(remember the train bombings?). I know 99% of you only like to think of "happy" things, but I for one take some satisfaction in knowing there is a plan to deal with this frightening possibility.

Oh, and for all you people who use the term "fearmongerer" so loosely? You're some of the same ones who call Bush "Hitler" "Stalin" "Mussolini" "the devil", then you imply that he is trying to defy the Constitution and remain in power. What purpose does the namecalling serve? Aren't you trying to convince others to fear the president? Therefore, you Bush-haters are the ones fearmongering (as well as inciting hatred). I know it's a profound thought, so I don't expect most of you liberals to get it!

Tell you what, if everyone is too frightened to vote Ron Paul will definitely win. His people will barrel roll and crawl all the way to the polls if they have to. We feel that strongly about him.

Here we go again, get used to constant phony terror alerts like they did in 2004.

The sky is falling, the sky is falling

What "special" precautions do you put in place in the absence of a specific threat that you wouldn't already have for general protection of the public 24/7? Is this effectively an admittance by the administration that despite taking full credit for protecting the homeland from international terrorism they really had no control after all?

More of the same old, made-up "scare" baloney from an administration that wouldn't know the truth if it bit them in their comfort zones. All done to give the false impression that "we're in control of the situation." How do these people sleep at night? Good riddance, Ms. Townsend.

Be afraid, be very afraid. You people are crazy! What are they going to do swim over?

This Bush supporter writes:
Stop attacking Bush. He is a great president. I believe his warnings of the terrorists. This country couldn't be safer and the economy more robust. I would vote for him again if I could.

Posted By Jr., California : November 20, 2007 4:12 pm

What a joke! No wonder this country is not making any progress with these kind of people who still this date believe that Bush is the greatest president this country ever had!

Mommy! Mommy! There's a terrorist under my bed!

The Republicans aren't just beating a dead horse. They're violently smacking it's rotten carcass.

Stop attacking Bush. He is a great president. I believe his warnings of the terrorists. This country couldn't be safer and the economy more robust. I would vote for him again if I could.

Posted By Jr., California : November 20, 2007 4:12 pm

Thanks for the laugh!!

The sky is going to fall! The sky is going to fall! Run in circles! Scream! Shout!

We've heard it all before.

And here come all the Democrats... "NOOOOOOOOOO, there are no terrorists! It's all made up by Bush!!"

Jr.,California

I'm half tempted to dignify your remarks with some sort of a response of my own. But not really though...

Boo!

So vote Republican, everybody!

This is ridiculous. When are we going to stop giving in to the fear tactics of the Bush administration??

What's more, it could be true "fedspeak". It might happen. It will probably be planned by the government and not terrorists. Then they can say, "I told you so".

Many people will follow Bush to the grave, where they very well may follow him. It is my hope that truth will prevail.

I'm not saying that there isn't people out there who want to smack some Americans around, but why be afraid? Who gains extra life by being scarred?

Terrorist could and would attack anytime and any place they could, let us not forget that they managed an attack under this administration.

The fact that another attack has not occurred is not news worthy, what would be news worthy is if this administration failed a second time and permitted another attack to ocurr.

Fear mongering is basically all this administration is capable of. Just remember if an attack would occur it would occur with a Republican in the White House.

Oh my GODDDDDDD another attack...Oh no, say it aint sooooooo. I'm definitely not gonna VOTE now!!!! Raise the CODE, shut the booths...ANOTHER ATTACK IS COMING...OH NOOOOO, DONT VOTE AMERICA, especially if you are a DEMOCRAT!!!!! OH NOOOOOOOOO!

Stop attacking Bush. He is a great president. I believe his warnings of the terrorists. This country couldn't be safer and the economy more robust. I would vote for him again if I could.

Fear makes the world go round. Correction, America. It makes America go round and round in endless circles of sadness and despair. Go to hell, you old priss, Townsend. Join the private sector and shut up.

The power of Nightmares once again...
Time was leaders offered us something positive. That's how we grew and advanced, built things and made life better. Remember Kennedy? King? They offered dreams of a better tomorrow we could all build together. These guys offer only nightmares without them. When will this end??

You know what's funny? People thinking that Bush is the reason we haven't been attacked again is funny. Meanwhile, 80 percent of Bomb parts make it through airport security and our borders are wide open.

Haha. A terrorist attack could happen at any time in the United States, or around the world for that matter. More fear, more fear, more fear. This administration is a joke. I am completely sick of how "we" as a country accept this. IMPEACH BUSH. Kick him out of the White House. I encourage everyone who hasn't seen it, to watch V for Vendetta. That movie could not speak more to the truth about how this administration is run.

Convenient timing for a terrorist attack. It would allow Bush to call for martial law under the pretense of homeland security, which means newly-elected officials cannot be sworn into office until the President calls for a return to civil law.
We deserve to be punished for allowing this creep to assume office when that 2000 election was so blatantly stolen. The empire has crumbled.

Trillions of taypayer dollars at work and this is the best the supposed DHS czar can come up with?

No specific threat? What a collosal waste of my tax money.

War on drugs/War on Terrorism = money down the drain

Yeah, it's been about a week since the last Doom and Gloom scenario....time to try to get the public paniced again.
If they're so worried about the inauguration, hold it in the Oval Office, there is no law that says it has to be public.

John, Sarasota, FL;

I know what you mean. It is 100% the medias fault. Those who control the information control the population (at least a wide % of it). It's up to us to educate our parents and grandparents. Tell them to forget all the misinformation they've been fed over the years.

The internet is our only hope at this point. All the news papers and TV news outlets are all dominated by the elite. The try to polarize them to make us think there is a choice. However, it is all in the same.

Our fight is with the media and their false information, not with each other. Then, we can smack some bankers around after that.

Such a comment is silly. No wonder Homeland Security Department is not respected in our country having leaders like this and the McDonald's dropouts at the airport security lines. An election day and political turnover may be a day of turmoil in countries about which the enemy is familiar; but we know that all aspects of our government will operate at they should after the election as before and whether we elect and African-American or a Woman there is no vulnerability in our country or our government. Let's stop fearing because those people have no experience of the world.

Wait. I don't understand why I have never heard of her until the past few days. The first day she says she will resign, the very next day she claims there might be an attack next year.

What in the world is going on? Why would you do that? Did you not have this information yesterday? You, along with the others, seem destructive.

Good luck to you, but you are very odd to do this type of thing.

What a hilarious joke this is. That's got to be up there with the one about 21 guys from Stone Age-style villages taking down the most militarily prepared nation in the history of the planet using some boxcutters-or even funnier-the one about steel skyscrapers collapsing due to fire.
It would take someone with an IQ of below 60 to believe any of these ridiculous jokes.

Seriously, didnt bush sign some legislation, that in the event of a terroist attack, if W doesnt think its safe to hold an election, he can suspend it? Please dont censor this CNN Im just asking.

And if we get hit, the left will blame President Bush for not warning us. Keep your heads in the sand, people.

And wouldn't that be just convenient for the fear mongering Republicans?

Another fear tactics that is bogus

Fear mongering at its finest.

Vote who we tell you to or we will be attacked!!!

Well, maybe if we still actually had a decent military on our own soil, we wouldnt be so vulnerable.

How many times can one call, "Wolf"? It was done before the 2004 election, it was done everytime the administration thought it would be in it's best interest, (to divert the public's attention from something else that would bring a negative light onto the administration at any particular moment).
Of course, they will bring up 9/11.
I would suspect it would be to push Rudy Giulini into the lime light for the election. He will work the 9/11 card well.

GOP=Party of Chickenhawk Fearmongers. This statement by Townsend is so lame it is actually funny.

Semper Fi.

And I suppose we'll have 5 major hurricanes hitting the US at that time too!

My gawd is there no shame in this administration?

Speaking of those failed random bomb checks . . . . guess the terrorists aren't trying so much! They see that our administration is doing the terror work for them.

Whatever fearmongering this lady (Fran) spits out, this time 60% of the americans are not going to vote republicans based on this fear tactics. In 2004, 51% fell into that trap (including stupid republican person like me). But, being an independent for this election, I will vote anyone but republican even if as a worst case scenario as Fran suggested. Enough is enough on this Bush presidency!

Out of one side of the mouth we get fearmongering.
From the other side, we get open borders and a staunch refusal to enforce the laws of the land.

IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY FOLKS!!!

We can all go to hell as long as business and capitalism are not checked and balanced.

The worst part about this stuff, is that my parents who are in their sixties fall for it every time. My jaw drops when I hear them reiterate this stuff. I have no idea why they beleive and trust this government.

I'm more afraid of the Bush/Cheney administration than anyone else.

I fear that they will create an "emergency" that will allow Bush to enact Presidential Directive 51 and the elections will be canceled and we'll be stuck with them.

I blame the spineless Congress for not reigning them in.

Dennis Kucinich is right that we must IMPEACH before they invade Iran and do Lord-knows-what-else.

They are much scarier than Al-Qaeda!!

One last FRIGHT Hurrah from Townsend before she abandons the shipwreck that is the "Bush Administration." The more BushCo. cry out WOLF!, the less serious they are taken. I wonder if that is the effect they want?

I am sooooo sick of the White House playing the fear card. They are going to cry "Wolf!" one to many times. Maybe they'll hit the ranch in Crawford...

And Russia could attack, and China could attack, and North Korea could attack, and Iran could attack, and the boogie man could get you . . whatever; if they could really do anything about terrorism, it wouldn't be terrorizing now would it? But, this administration wants to make sure that you're scared into submission, don't they?

And in other news, the terrorist threat level has been raised to violet.
That means the Devil will implode the earth unless the brave Republicans are allowed to stay in power in order to summon Jesus to save us!!!!!!!!!

Oh my God, we will all die unless we vote Republican!!!!!!!

In other news, Roger Rabbit murdered Barney. Apparently Barney votes Democratic.

"Bush administration is already putting in place a plan to ensure there is a smooth transfer of power following the elections."
LOL – This administration has done anything smoothly since day one.

Oh yes, just so that anyone who might be thinking of ditching the Republican party puts their scaredy pants back on!

Ms Townsend would like you to believe that the administration actually cares about this country and its safety. This while the borders are like old chicken wire fencing, allowing everything that wishes to cross over, or in many cases under the border through tunnels. The fact is, we are spread so thinly that this nation is very vulnerable. In its total folly and mindless pursuit of a mindless war, this administration has abdicated all responsibility to us domestically. No wonder the proverbial rats are leaving the ship

She has her bunker built and she is staying close to it!Wide open borders after 6 and a half yrs,No port security. etc.etc. Gee thanks. Great job Franny? ps, wheres Osama???

Why are Christmas and New Years always safe, but the 2008 elections? Please. Don't tell me John Negroponte came back with advice from Musharraf.

Better just cancel the election to be safe. Give Bush a third term because he's such a success.

I am just afraid and unsure if Obama becomes President at this sensitive time. What will happen to our country, I have no clue!

You know, that is a really convenient statement for the administration to issue considering the Republican's are struggling as it is in finding a candidate who isn't morally bankrupt.

Fear seems to win people over every time.

This is the same drum the GOP banged during the last presidential election, even going so far as suggesting that Election Day might have to be postponed. I guess the only way the Republicans can win is through a politics of fear, but it's a tired tactic that's fooling less and less Americans six years down the road.

There will be no grounds for attack because a Democrat will be in the White House.

Watch out everyone, here comes the GOP and their "if you don't vote for me, then you will be attacked" strategy. I can read between the lines, can you?

False flag coming to a city near you!

I think Fran is absolutely right - the terrorists will do anything they can to make sure that a Republican is elected.

Here they go again....
Do any republicans not believe that there is a terrorist under every bush???

Yada, yada, yada. They are already ramping up the fear mongering.

Is the first hint that Bush/Cheney will use an excuse to cancel the elections and stay in power? They have continuously shown that they believe that their power is absolute anyway! Let's just say I wouldn't be surprised.>

Wow. Thanks for the warning of the "no specific threat" that may or may not happen. So in other words, once Bush our lord and savior leaves office we are all just sitting ducks because he's protected us so well. I guess that explains the failing random security tests done in our airports and our still open borders and ports.

I like how there's "no specific threat," but look out, they're coming. They might jump out from behind your car on the way home from work today, or get you on the way to the bathroom. This government likes to rule by fear.

Oh be quiet Fran and go to your new job already. Enough of the fear-mongering.

Here we go again. I suppose next they'll be telling us that that only safe way for us to proceed is to impose a state of emergency, suspend the constitution, sack the Supreme Court (at least half anyway) and allow our dear leader George Bush to rule ad infinitum.

Title should read: One more bout of fear-mongering from worthless sycophant on her way out the door!

Wow, guess thats why shes leaving,probably to build a bunker for her family and friends.Thanks for the warning Fran.How much does it cost for one of those "Super bunkers"?Shame the rest of us will have to suffer your incompetance for leaving our ports and borders wide open.

The Boogeymen don't want us to vote!

Woooo... keep it coming. GOP will stop at nothing...

just like that did in 04 right around the DEMs convention. My God please stop this people. They are evil.

In the last 6 years since 911 the US government has terrorized its own people more that the terrorist could.

Republicans never get tired of the politics of fear. Even with Bush as a lame duck, Fran Townsend STILL acts like Rove is writing her talking points.

And so it begins. Honestly, is there anyone out there that didn't see this coming? It is too bad that the vast majority of Americans trust president Bush and his people as far as they can throw them.

"terrorists could launch an attack against the U.S. in 2008"

More fearmongering from the bush administration, eh? I mean... even a 3 year old kid could make such a generalization. The sick part about all of this is that a terror attack would probably help bush carry out his goals of attacking iran and taking over the world.

Dear God: Please let us survive the remainder of the bush presidency. Please save us from this tyrant.

If an attack actually does happen you know Cowboy Bush isn't stepping down.
SCARY!!!

This is typical republican fear mongering...they can't win elections the fare way so they scare the people into voting for them...we can see right through this.

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your scare tactics have worked – congrats