WI: Terror Alert Raised Before 2004 Election

[Oppo]

Homeland Security Tom Ridge was urged by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft to raise the terror threat to improve Bush's re-election victory. What if a different DHS secretary follows through? Would Bush have a bigger victory, or would it backfire? What if it leaked out during Bush's second term?

 

[Colonel Zoidberg]

The number one issue in 2004 wasn't terrorism or anything people expected; it was "moral values." Anti-gay sentiment, not fear of al-Qaeda and Saddam, got Bush re-elected.