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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop - In the wake of the discovery of the bomb plot in the United Kingdom, that aspiring terrorists planned to use binary chemicals to produce an explosive that would be detonated inflight, we can anticipate the following future developments:
1. The Sun rises in the East
2. You can contract a cold on board an aircraft
3. There is no system in place to detect explosives in cargo.
JESUS CHRIST!! How much stupidity must we endure from the Bush Administration? How much farther up their a-- can they stick their heads? Binary explosives, and their ready availability, have been a fact since World War II. And we're supposed to believe that George Bush, Tony Blair, and Michael Chertoff have just awakened to this fact? At a minimum, this is a further indictment of the incompetence of Bush and his cronies. They have done NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING to deal with this threat even though security professionals have known and fretted about this for years.
Larry Johnson
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Nice try, Ty. Larry selectively focuses on the type of explosive, missing the fact that the Brits uncovered a conspiracy. Of course Bush, Blair and Chertoff were aware of this type of thing happening. And it has been thwarted. The Brits actually knew about this plot for a while, and just sat back and waited to cach more conspirators with a bigger net.
This editorial is the type of clever criticism the Left loves to throw when it loses face. They get a guy with experience in the field to take one aspect of the issue out of context and rip into it. Larry created a neat unsubstantiated strawman (the notion Bush and Blair weren't ready for binary weapons) then shredded it.
Sometimes, Ty, it's just better to concede the other side did a good job and move along. I admit whenh the Left has a better idea. I expect the Left to do the same. I at least expect you to do the same, being a non-Kool Aid drinker.
