Beltway Traffic Jam

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Beltway Traffic Jam

James Joyner

August 2, 2004

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The Monday linkfest:

Julian Sanchez finds it ironic that Kuwait is banning Fahrenheit 911, which claims Saudi is “undemocratic.”
Dean Esmay answers Spoons and Michelle Malkin.
Courtney Knapp pledges to quit posting about ice cream for a while.
Scott Koenig writes about fake planes and fake medals in the Navy. And, no, it’s not about John Kerry.
Steven Taylor has a new Toast-o-Meter up.
Stephen Green offers yet another reason to be thankful Howard Dean won’t be president.
Mrs. Blackfive is supposed to deliver today. Congrats, guys.

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11 responses to “Beltway Traffic Jam”

Jim Henley

August 3, 2004 at 10:29 am

A day later, Stephen Green looks a lot dumber than Howard Dean does. Louder too. I wonder if we could get a scream recording for comparison purposes.
McGehee

August 3, 2004 at 11:56 am

Looks like Mr. Henley is making the same mistake others are, in assuming that “much” means “all” when it comes to the al Qaeda intel seized with Technical Ali.

I might also point out (thus repeating myself, but I’m getting used to it) that 9/11 was being planned a damn sight longer than three years.
Jim Henley

August 3, 2004 at 12:27 pm

I might also point out (thus repeating myself, but IÃ¢Â€Â™m getting used to it) that 9/11 was being planned a damn sight longer than three years.

Absolutely. But we can’t close the roads in DC every day from now until Freedom Comes to the Middle East and All Our Problems Are Solved. So either we just happened to find stuff on a laptop last week specifying the attack would be this week (or this month, to be charitable), which would be a heck of a coincidence, or this is all a big show. I’m open to the possibility of the former, but the pattern of terror alerts until now runs in the other direction.

Let me be clear that I’m NOT claiming the big show is driven purely by “Let’s panic the electorate into reelecting us” motives. I think there’s a lot more “We’re a bureacracy – let’s be visibly DOING SOMETHING” to it. IOW, if there is ever a Kerry Administration, I expect stuff like this to continue.