Bush to Give State of Union Speech Tomorrow – Time to Raise the Threat Level Another Color

President Bush is set to deliver his State of the Union speech tomorrow. An overwhelming number of Americans disapprove of his handling the Iraq War, distrust him personally and disapprove of the escalation of US troops he has called for. Time to increase the Threat Level to RED ALERT. ABC News reports that the White House has just leaked that it has uncovered plans for al Qaeda in Iraq to send terrorists posing as students into the US to strike at us. The problem is that the documents were discovered over six months ago when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed and the plans were only in their “earliest stages” and there is no evidence of an imminent attack on the US. Suspiciously, this half a year old information is being leaked on the eve of the first State of the Union where a majority of the American people don’t trust President Bush.

Hmmmm.

I predict that Bush will cite this six month old news as a reason for his escalation in Iraq when he delivers the SoTU address tomorrow night and he may possibly use it later (some time after the SoTU) to bolster his case for declaring war on Iran. Even though Iran and al Qaeda are enemies.

I’d like to be proved wrong. But after the Terror Color Level being raised every time the Bush Administration dipped in the polls for so many years, I’m cynical now. As the President famously said, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, uh, um, uh, you can’t get fooled again.”

You said it Mr. President! We won’t be!