Is the Bush Administration just using scare tactics?

Even I will agree with you that some conspiracy theories, okay, most conspiracy theories are just plain absurd. I mean come on, who really believes the government of the United States is being controlled by Aliens (from outer space, not Mexico)? or Elvis and Tupock are living out their geriatric years on their own private island in the Bahamas. This is the reason I think most of us pass over stories, like one published Friday, July 7th on Time.com. The article postulates that the Bush administration is raising terror alerts to boost GOP poll numbers. I know, I even thought this sounded a bit "beam me up Scotty" when I first read it. But then I turned off the three ring circus (television) in my living room, and applied some good ol' rational thought to what I had read. Could our own government be using terror alerts, a pretty serious thing since 9/11, just for political gain?

Just weeks before the London scare, Bill O'rily, host of the O'rily factor, said that if the United States were to suffer another Terrorist attack, it would be "the end of the Democratic Party". And we all remember the infamous tape by Osama Bin Laden, released just three nights before the general Presidential election, one that even the Republicans admit helped Bush win his second term Presidency. So with Congressional mid midterm elections just around the corner, wouldn't it be a great tactic to remind the Country how much danger we are in and how much the Republicans support national security and how the Democrats are "weak" when it comes to fighting "terror"? Just a thought.

After the terror plot to use watter bottles and cell phones (now it has been admitted that using such devices are more complicated than initially reported) to blow plains out of the sky, the United States immediately banned ALL passengers from bringing ANY liquid aboard a plain. Oh, and they also raised the terror alert from "yellow - elevated" to "red [ohhh, scary] - high". The next day, Sean Hannity, another conservative television and radio talk show host, said that the timing was "coincidental" and that no one can control when "these things happen". All right, I'll give him that. But doesn't it strike anyone as just a bit odd, just one iota, that we see a rise in the number of terror threats around elections? I can't make up your mind for you, but hopefully I can help to connect the dots. What do you think?

Cody Hobbs