Word: warningsã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...administration probably felt that the advantage of being able to say “I told you so” if another attack occurred outweighed the obvious costs of such ominous, vague warnings??that potentially holding bragging rights for clairvoyance was worth the price of alarming an already nervous populace...
...terrorists had attacked after the Bush administration issued those ambiguous October warnings??no matter how they struck, or where—the administration would have been able to say it had foreseen the threat. As all interpreters of Nostradamus worth their salt know, the advantage of vague yet dire prophecy is that it may be interpreted to describe almost anything that occurs after the prophecy is issued...