And... On cue the next big distraction

The Bush media team at USA Today is busy coming up with the next big "cover ass" story to create all the distraction necessary from having a member of your administration committing treason. And here it is...

In the nearly four years since the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI and many local police often have considered an uncomfortable scenario: the emergence of Middle East-style suicide bombers picking up the campaign of terror ignited by the 19 suicide hijackers.

Since 2001, the nation's ranking law enforcement officials have struggled to explain why -- given the large number of potential targets and freedom of movement in the USA -- suicide bombers have not struck again.

If suicide attackers are responsible for last week's bombings in the London subway, an important threshold in terror operations waged in the West has been crossed, law enforcement officials say.

"The London attacks have all sorts of implications for us," Miami Police Chief John Timoney says.

High among them, Timoney says, is the suggestion that the British bombing suspects are homegrown terrorists who did not draw the attention of law enforcement before the attacks.

"If these guys did not appear on the radar screen before the attacks, it raises the question of how many more are out there and how many are here," he says. "We have not faced these kinds of attacks before, and the incidents in London bring it that much closer."

Timoney and Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton say small-scale assaults at subway stations or shopping centers that are similar to the string of bombings in Iraq and Israel in recent months have the potential to leave more lasting psychological scars than even Sept. 11.

"People may begin to think that they can't be safe anywhere," Timoney says.

Oh Jeebus, save us from your idiotic followers and their attempts to remake the world in what they think is your image. And while we are chatting J.C. sorry that you didn't make the philosophers list that I mentioned earlier today.