Tom Ridge confirms a long-held suspicion among Bush critics, writing
in his new autobiography that he "was pushed to raise the security
alert on the eve of President Bush's re-election, something he saw as
politically motivated and worth resigning over."

jps wrote:
Tom Ridge confirms a long-held suspicion among Bush critics, writing
in his new autobiography that he "was pushed to raise the security
alert on the eve of President Bush's re-election, something he saw as
politically motivated and worth resigning over."

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Former US homeland security chief Tom Ridge charges
in a new book that top aides to then-president George W. Bush pressured
him to raise the "terror alert" level on the eve of the November 2004 US
election.

Then defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and attorney general John
Ashcroft pushed him to elevate the color-coded threat level, but Ridge
refused, according to a summary from his publisher, Thomas Dunne Books.

"After that episode, I knew I had to follow through with my plans to
leave the federal government for the private sector," Ridge is quoting
as writing in "The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege... And How We
Can Be Safe Again.

Some of Bush's critics had repeatedly questioned whether the
administration was using warnings of a possible attack to blunt the
political damage from the unpopular Iraq war by shifting the debate to
the broader "war on terrorism," which had wide popular appeal.
Ridge, a former governor of Pennsylvania, was the first secretary of the
US Department of Homeland Security that the US Congress created in
response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist strikes.

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I'd say some of the worst things a politician could do is:
Manipulating an election with lies
Starting a war on lies
Profiting from that war

Bush/Cheney did it all, with a lot of support.

Now, let's hear from those who supported such behavior.