2 FROM THE BACKLOG

Here are a couple of stories from my backlog that I felt shouldn't be missed............PEACE.........Scott


Robert Scheer | Spinning Old Threats Into New Fears
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081606O.shtml
"Investigators have known for a decade about terrorist plots to bring down
passenger jets with liquid explosives. So why, all of a sudden," Robert Scheer
asks, "did Bush ban most liquids on flights? Government-induced hysteria thrives
on public ignorance, which is why President Bush is so confident of turning the
British bomb plot to his partisan purposes.

George Soros | A Self-Defeating War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081606P.shtml
"The war on terror is a false metaphor that has led to counterproductive and
self-defeating policies. Five years after 9/11," writes George Soros, "a
misleading figure of speech applied literally has unleashed a real war fought on
several fronts - Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Somalia - a war that has
killed thousands of innocent civilians and enraged millions around the world.
Yet al Qaeda has not been subdued; a plot that could have claimed more victims
than 9/11 has just been foiled by the vigilance of British intelligence."