New York Times columnist Frank Rich:
The president has no one to blame but himself. The color-coded terror alerts, the repeated John Ashcroft press conferences announcing imminent Armageddon during election season, the endless exploitation of 9/11 have all taken their numbing toll. Fear itself is the emotional card Mr. Bush chose to overplay, and when he plays it now, he is the boy who cried wolf.
In the original story, the boy cries wolf because he thinks it’s funny. In the current version of the story, Bush and Company cry wolf because they think there’s a political profit to be made. The real crime of both is that their lies dull our preparedness by blurring this important truth: there are wolves out there.
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