{"id":6001,"date":"2004-06-09T10:34:56","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/09\/october-surprise.html"},"modified":"2004-06-09T10:34:56","modified_gmt":"2004-06-09T17:34:56","slug":"october_surpris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/09\/october_surpris.html","title":{"rendered":"October Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, if Osama Bin Laden really is captured in October, or if terrorists really pull off an attack on US soil at that time, or (sufficiently accepted) WMDs really are found in Iraq that month — will that be a “real” event, or a Bush\/Cheney\/Rove October Surprise<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The danger, of course, is that at least some of these events (and the others mentioned in the poll) could legitimately happen, by coincidence or by intentional action by other parties. <\/p>\n

Indeed, that would seem to ratchet up <\/i>the possible danger from a terrorist attack in US soil in October — the terrorists can count on not only the “terror” effect (cf. Spain), but the “conspiracy” effect as well (given that there are already folks willing to believe that the US government was complicit, if not co-conspirators, in the 9\/11 attacks in the first place). <\/p>\n

So maybe a better question is, who’s responsible for that danger? An Administration that promotes at least some level of cynicism as to its motivations, or the cynics who are willing to go the extra yard with it? And, of course, “All of the above” is always an acceptible answer.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, if Osama Bin Laden really is captured in October, or if terrorists really pull off an attack on US soil at that time, or (sufficiently accepted) WMDs really are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132871,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/17\/a-tale-of-two-terrorists.html","url_meta":{"origin":6001,"position":0},"title":"A Tale of Two Terrorists","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-Feb-17 1:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"But you've likely heard neither of their names, nor of their arrests, nor of their records, nor of the violence they planned to commit.Because they are white, native-born American terrorists. 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