Friday, September 29, 2006

Rummy Hindered, Rice Blew Off Hunt For Bin Laden Pre-9/11

Book Says Bush Ignored Urgent Warning on Iraq - New York Times:
The 537-page book describes tensions among senior officials from the very beginning of the administration. Mr. Woodward writes that in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Tenet believed that Mr. Rumsfeld was impeding the effort to develop a coherent strategy to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. Mr. Rumsfeld questioned the electronic signals from terrorism suspects that the National Security Agency had been intercepting, wondering whether they might be part of an elaborate deception plan by Al Qaeda.

On July 10, 2001, the book says, Mr. Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, met with Ms. Rice at the White House to impress upon her the seriousness of the intelligence the agency was collecting about an impending attack. But both men came away from the meeting feeling that Ms. Rice had not taken the warnings seriously.
What? They lied to us? Shock and awe!

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Hate You Both, Now Go Away!

My Way News - Poll: Iraqis Back Attacks on U.S. Troops:
WASHINGTON (AP) - About six in 10 Iraqis say they approve of attacks on U.S.-led forces, and slightly more than that want their government to ask U.S. troops to leave within a year, according to a poll in that country.

The Iraqis also have negative views of Osama bin Laden, according to the early September poll of 1,150.
Yep, we really know how to please, don't we? Guess the Iraqis still aren't ready to show their appreciation, even after Georgie-porgie threw a hissy fit at the ingrates. Well!

Worse Than We're Told

Terror Watch: How Bush Spun Terror Intel - Newsweek Terror Watch - MSNBC.com

Not really surprised, are you? The Bushies are fighting for their lives and futures, so what's a little double-speak when the whole chimichanga is in the frier?

Not only are things worse in Iraq and elsewhere than the administration wants us to think, they are getting worse by the day! The number of terrorists worldwide is increasing, not decreasing, and our invasion of Iraq has stoked the fires. It's the worst Catch-22 we've ever been involved with, and it's not going to go away.

And on top of all this, people think that because gas prices are falling (funny how they always do before elections), that the Bushies might not be so bad? If the Republicans keep control of even one of the houses of Congress, this fucking country of idiots will only be getting what it deserves and those of us who vote for the Dems should head for Canada before it's too late!

Worse Than We're Told

Terror Watch: How Bush Spun Terror Intel - Newsweek Terror Watch - MSNBC.com

Not really surprised, are you? The Bushies are fighting for their lives and futures, so what's a little double-speak when the whole chimichanga is in the frier?

Not only are things worse in Iraq and elsewhere than the administration wants us to think, they are getting worse by the day! The number of terrorists worldwide is increasing, not decreasing, and our invasion of Iraq has stoked the fires. It's the worst Catch-22 we've ever been involved with, and it's not going to go away.

And on top of all this, people think that because gas prices are falling (funny how they always do before elections), that the Bushies might not be so bad? If the Republicans keep control of even one of the houses of Congress, this fucking country of idiots will only be getting what it deserves and those of us who vote for the Dems should head for Canada before it's too late!

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Propaganda R Us

My Way News - Firm That Paid Iraq Papers Gets New Deal:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A public relations company that participated in a controversial U.S. military program that paid Iraqi newspapers for stories favorable to coalition forces has been awarded another multimillion-dollar media contract with American forces in Iraq.

Washington-based Lincoln Group won a two-year contract to monitor a number of English and Arabic media outlets and produce public relations-type products like talking points or speeches for U.S. forces in Iraq, officials said Tuesday.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

And He Blew Off The Orals, Too

My Way News - Professor Says Senator Used Racial Slur:
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A noted political scientist joined one of Sen. George Allen's former college football teammates in claiming the senator used a racial slur to refer to blacks in the early 1970s, a claim Allen dismisses as 'ludicrously false.'

Larry J. Sabato, one of Virginia's most-quoted political science professors and a classmate of Allen's in the early 1970s, said in a televised interview Monday that Allen used the epithet.

Shouldn't Rummy Be Fired By Now?

My Way News - Retired Officers Criticize Rumsfeld:
But Batiste, Eaton and retired Col. Thomas X. Hammes were unsparing in remarks that suggested deep anger at the way the military had been treated. All three served in Iraq, and Batiste also was senior military assistant to then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.

Batiste, who commanded the Army's 1st Infantry Division in Iraq, also blamed Congress for failing to ask 'the tough questions.'

He said Rumsfeld at one point threatened to fire the next person who mentioned the need for a postwar plan in Iraq.
If not in jail.

Oh, Really?

Rice Disputes Clinton Claims

First she says Clinton didn't leave a "comprehensive strategy" for fighting Al Qaeda, then she says there were "big pieces" missing. Missing from what? The comprehensive strategy for fighting Al Qaeda? Hmmmm. And didn't she say to a Congressional panel that BushCo had no clue about a threat from Al Qaeda on U.S. soil, but she did know the title of the document "Al Qaeda Determined To Strike In U.S.?" Hmmmmm.

More Proof We're Re-Losing Afghanistan

Gunmen Kill Afghan Official Who Backed Women’s Rights - New York Times:
"KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 25 — A senior Afghan official specializing in women’s rights was gunned down here on her way to work on Monday morning by suspected Taliban gunmen. It was the highest-level assassination of a woman in Afghanistan in the five years since the Taliban were ousted from power."

Monday, September 25, 2006

Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat - New York Times

Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat - New York Times:
The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,’’ it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe.

An opening section of the report, “Indicators of the Spread of the Global Jihadist Movement,” cites the Iraq war as a reason for the diffusion of jihad ideology.

The report “says that the Iraq war has made the overall terrorism problem worse,” said one American intelligence official.
There's really nothing more to add to this. We are NOT safer, as BushCo would have us believe. In fact, BushCo is responsible for making us less secure by pushing for a worse-than-useless war in Iraq!

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