July Surpise? or Idiocy?

It's the timing, not the reality. That's how far the Left has sunk. Everything is a stunt to them, designed to drive politics and the election.

July Surprise? by John B. Judis, Spencer Ackerman & Massoud Ansari is a good example.

Pushing Musharraf to go after Al Qaeda in the tribal areas may be a good idea despite the risks. But, if that is the case, it was a good idea in 2002 and 2003. Why the switch now? Top Pakistanis think they know: This year, the president's reelection is at stake.

How about the logistics of the campaign? How about the time needed to turn Pakistan from tolerating, if not supporting, terrorists to a partner in eliminating them? How about the fact that much of the Pakistani population is sympathetic to the terrorists? No. It's a plot.

An Editor note from the top of the article, added Jul 30th:

"Earlier this month, John B. Judis, Spencer Ackerman, and Massoud Ansari broke the story of how the Bush administration was pressuring Pakistani officials to apprehend high-value targets (HVTs) in time for the November elections--and in particular, to coincide with the Democratic National Convention. Although the capture took place in central Pakistan "a few days back," the announcement [of the capture of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani] came just hours before John Kerry will give his acceptance speech in Boston.]

Timed for the Democrat Convention. The importance of the capture of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is immaterial, peripheral to their fantasies. Reuters on Ghailani.

* Ghailani is probably the most senior al Qaeda operative caught in Pakistan since the arrest in March 2003 of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.

* Ghailani was indicted in New York in December 1998 for the synchronised blasts that blew up the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Tanzania, killing 224 people. Prosecutors in the embassy bombings said he bought the Nissan Atlas truck used in the attack on the embassy in Dar es Salaam.

* A year-long European investigation into al Qaeda financing found Ghailani and Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, also indicted for the 1998 embassy bombings, went to Liberia and Sierra Leone in 1999 as part of a $20-million al Qaeda diamond-buying spree, U.S. newspapers reported.

Ghailani was captured after a 14 hour gun battle, a blow to Al Qaeda. You wouldn't know any of that from the New Republic.

SANDY BERGER
Then there was the announcement of Sandy Berger's illegal removal of and admitted destruction of Top Secret documents from the National Archives, the timing of which the Left insists was designed to detract from the release of the 9/11 report that, oddly, was not remotely unfavorable to the Bush administration.

No one seemed to know who leaked the story, at least the Elite Media claimed not to know. How they could they not when the story was broken by an Associated Press reporter?

Is it really people divorced from reality or people who no longer can even tell the truth? Whatever it is, it is why people don't want to be called liberal anymore.