| Thursday, February 09, 2006 |
| Excuse me, sir, your shoe bomb is in the way of my rolly cart |
HT to retired Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant, who noted a funny element in Bush's big speech today on Al Franken's radio show. Bush announced, coincidentally on the day Scottie McClellan apparently had penciled in as the start date for intelligence hearings on the spy program, and on the same day the administration reversed course and briefed the full committees (see next post), that the U.S. had disrupted 9/11-like plots via it's super-secret anti-terrorism operations (not that secret, apparently, since Bush is now eager to talk about it -- to the media, if not to the mayor of Los Angeles...)
Bush told the audience that one of the 10 plots "uncovered" by the Bush Security Offensive involved Khaled Sheikh Mohammad (sorry, I can't remember, did we wiretap him to get that info or torture him ... it all runs together after awhile...) involved a team of terrorists using shoe bombs to "gain access to the cockpit of an airliner" and hijack it, and then to fly the plane into the tallest building in Los Angeles.
... now would they be flying the plane before or after the shoe bombs destroy the aircraft, not to mention their lower extremities...?
SCENE: Cockpit of commercial airliner, 6,000 feet above land... Ahmad and Jalal arey outside the cockpit door, with Jalal standing over a bloodied and badly injured Ahmad, as stunned passengers and flight attendants look on...
AHMAD: Jalal! My legs! The stupid shoe bomb blew off my freaking legs!!! How am I supposed to fly the plane??? The bomb didn't even open the cockpit door!!!
JALAL: Oh, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, I knew we should have used the nunchucks made out of a jumprope and extra thick tube socks instead...! Damn you Transportation Safety Administration of the United States Department of Homeland Security...!!! Tags: Bush administration, war on terror, GWOT, civil liberties, fear, Politics, Terrorism |
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