Bush Made Sure Americans Were Scared

August 20, 2009

The threat level coding scheme was created years ago to give Americans an easy way to figure out whether the country was in danger. Presumably threat levels were based on credible intelligence and were supposed to be a public service.

They weren’t.

Now, Tom Ridge the former Homeland Security Director says threat levels were changed for political reasons. He will say in his new book, he was pressured to raise the threat level just before the 2004 elections in order to help Bush with his re-election. After the threat level was changed, Bush’s popularity went up.

The politics of fear during the Bush Administration is again confirmed.

Coincidentally bin Laden released a video at the same time so both threats worked together to keep Americans afraid.

If you recall, the re-election theme back then was “Vote For Me or Die”. So, naturally people got scared and voted for someone they thought would protect them. The didn’t want to die so Bush was re-elected.

This shows how morally contemptible the Bush Administration was …. they saw Americans as ”useful idiots” to keep them in power. It worked.

Bush had little else to offer but fear. The Administration failed to find WMDs in Iraq and bin Laden was not captured, dead or alive as promised. All that mattered was political power not truth and honesty.