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| President Bush and Tom Ridge announced the new color coded terror system. |
| New color coded 'what we know' terror system released |
| WASHINGTON--A new color coded terror alert system was released by President George Bush and Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge early Tuesday morning. The system, What We Know (WWK) comes amid speculation that the powers that be, could have prevented Sept. 11. "WWK is to cover our asses," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield said. |
| The system came Bush returned from Russia Peace Talks. The system is to have the government as an open government and ordinary citizens can know what the President knows. "I think it's great stragerory," Bush said. WWK is broken into four alert codes depending on how much information the government knows. |
| Once new terror alerts come in, it will be reviewed by government intelligence officials, then it will be assigned the appropriate defense code to it. "We don't want to give out vague info again," Ridge said. "That sure bit us in the ass last time." Instead of using fancy names and codes, the administration opted on colors. "We decided to use a color system because colors are more fun," Bush said. The four colors and meanings are: Blue: We don't know shit. Yellow: We know a lot, but we're not fucking telling you. Fuchsia: We have to tell you this info because we don't want to get busted later. Red: Evacuate! We're all going to fucking die. "The colors aren't finalized yet," Ridge said. "I mean who picked fuchsia? We're the freakin' United States of America, not a bunch of sissies. With that color, we deserve to get our asses kicked." The new system will go into effect after Congress passes the budget of $32.2 billion. |