"You have to realize that a lot of people involved in the Bush campaign are CIA people. Don't be shocked, his daddy, George H. W. Bush, used to be their boss, and you know the expression, once CIA, always CIA.
You must remember how during the Florida fiasco last election it was reported that in Seminole country 14,000 Republican ballots were corrected by a "former" CIA employee on behalf of the Bushes, while the defective Democrat ones were thrown out - enough to decide the election right there. (read AP Story)
You must recognize how what the "Swift Boat Vets" are doing uses the exact sort of tactics we use in places like Iran or Venezuela to try and destabilize a government or promote our leader of choice.
And you must recognize, seeing these people be so successful at it again and again, against McCain, Cleland, now Kerry, that these are experienced, well-trained pros at work.
You saw how they completely controlled the media message last election. You saw how they did it with the Iraq war. You saw how they did it in the primaries (which we documented step by step for you as they pushed first Dean, who, not coincidentally, sprang into the lead, then pushed Kerry and Edwards for the sake of burying Clark - and, not coincidentally, Kerry and Edwards then went ahead and won. If you missed all this, go back and read our primary coverage.)
So here it is again. The Bush campaign is making "complete use of their media machine to personally attack and smear while the President seems to have nothing to do with it," as they have before, as we knew they would. And again the "inevitability" is beginning to be reported - not just in one paper, not just in a few, not even just here in this nation, but around the world, from ABC News to O Globo in Brazil."
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