In the wake of the discovery of the bomb plot in the United Kingdom, that
aspiring terrorists planned to use binary chemicals to produce an explosive
that would be detonated inflight, we can anticipate the following future
developments:

1. The Sun rises in the East
2. You can contract a cold on board an aircraft
3. There is no system in place to detect explosives in cargo.

JESUS CHRIST!! How much stupidity must we endure from the Bush
Administration? How much farther up their ass can they stick their heads?
Binary explosives, and their ready availability, have been a fact since
World War II. And we’re supposed to believe that George Bush, Tony Blair,
and Michael Chertoff have just awakened to this fact? At a minimum, this is
a further indictment of the incompetence of Bush and his cronies. They have
done NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING to deal with this threat even though
security professionals have known and fretted about this for years.

I commented specifically on this two summers ago on the Joe Scarborough show:

[Referring to Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first World Trade
Center attack in 1993) He got aboard the plane and built that device in the
lavatory, took it back, put it under the seat, got off the plane, someone
else got on board. The plane took off and it exploded in flight. So one of
the gaps still in place is that we havenŒt come up with effective detector
at screening checkpoint for liquid explosives.

Don’t let these clowns off the hook this time. The time for action came and
went while the Republican Congress and President focused on more important
matters, such as Terry Schiavo and gay marriage.