2008-05-29 Gingrich quips Bush should have allowed some 'reminder' attacks

2008-05-29 \We need another 9/11\Newt Gingrich http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Gingrich_Bush_should_have_allowed_attack_0529.html Gingrich quips Bush should have allowed some 'reminder' attacks  "'This is ... one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration,' Gingrich continued. 'The more successful they've been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we're in danger. And therefore, the better they've done at making sure there isn't an attack, the easier it is to say, 'Well, there never was going to be an attack anyway.' And it's almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us.'"
 * 1) Hypocrisy: the success at interception has been through regular police methods, not through Bush's elevation of presidential powers.
 * 2) Whenever someone says something like this, it gives yet more credibility to the still-incredible-seeming idea that a US president might have deliberately engineered something like 9/11 in order to increase his personal power.

Gingrich: "...it's almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us."   