It is a week since news broke in London about an alleged plot to blow up nine
commercial jetliners and there are emerging indicators that Bush and Blair
exaggerated the truth about the actual readiness of the so-called plot. 
And yes, I mean so-called plot.  Why would Bush and Blair hype a terrorist
threat?  A very simple answer.  The White House was on notice that Seymour Hersh’s story that the Bush Administration encouraged
Israel to invade Lebanon as part of a broader scheme to set the stage for war
with Iran.  Tony Blair, Bush’s enabler, went along with the ruse.

The initial story out of London gave the average traveler the clear
impression that Muslim terrorists were thwarted at the last minute from planting
bombs made of liquid explosives on board aircraft.  Since then, the facts
about the story shifted significantly.  It is true that some of the people
in the custody of British and Pakistani security forces had thought about
bombing airplanes.  But there is substantial evidence that the plot was far
from implementation.