This might have been a distraction from Iraq killings.

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The question is why would the Bush Administration benefit from a massacre such as this taking place on American soil at this point in time. The answer is foregone: this week saw 169 people killed in Iraq, in what the New York Times described as "the deadliest day in the capital since the American-led security plan for the city took effect two months ago". Clearly, Bush needed a diversion, something to take attention off Iraq in much the same way as did Hurricane Katrina or the South East Asian tsunami (both joint CIA and Department of Meteorology operations). A school massacre by a lone gunman, utterly unlinked to the War on Terror, was just what the doctor - or, in this case, the President - ordered.--Jack Marx.