2 great Buzzflash headlines/articles

Frank Rich: It will be all 9/11 all the time this week, as the White House yet again synchronizes its drumbeating for the Iraq war with the anniversary of an attack that had nothing to do with Iraq. Ignore that fog and focus instead on another date whose anniversary passed yesterday without notice: Sept. 8, 2002. What happened on that Sunday five years ago is the Rosetta Stone for the administration's latest scam.

We Just Don't Get It. Bush Promised to Get Bin Laden "Dead or Alive," Cowboy Boasting Style. Then Bush Said That He Really Didn't Think About Osama Much. Now We are Back to Osama Being the Bogeyman in All Our Closets and Living Comfortably in a "Safe House" with a Photo-Shopped Black Beard. Shouldn't Bush be Held Accountable for Letting Osama Get Away? And What Ever Happened to the Domestic Anthrax Terrorist Who Brought Capitol Hill to a Standstill by Targeting Key Democratic Senators and Their Staffs? Bush's Mission Unaccomlplished, Unless Letting Osama Get Away and the Anthrax Terrorists are Part of the Great Game to Ensure that Fear Keeps the Republicans in Power. Naw, Don't Think Such a Thing! Isn't it Prima Facie a Pathetic Reminder of Bush's FAILURE to Protect Us That He is Reduced to Finding About Osama from Videotapes That Appear When They Can Maximize Bush Playing the Terror Card?