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Posted By ybdogsct 1 year, 7 months ago in NewsThe GAO said "al Qaeda had regenerated its ability to attack the U.S. and had succeeded in establishing a safe haven" in Pakistan's Federally Administrated Tribal Areas. "No plan for meeting national security goals in FATA has been developed, as stipulated by the National Security Strategy for Combating Terrorism [in 2003], an ind
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ybdogsct1 year, 7 months ago
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The original GAO report can be found here:
http://www.hcfa.house.gov/110/GAO041708.pdf
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flyonthewallzz1 year, 7 months ago
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From the .PDF
"The NIE, The Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland, also found that al Qaeda had effectively found replacements for many of its senior operational planners over the years. The NIE stated that, in the past 2 years, al Qaeda's central leadership regenerated the core operational capabilities needed to conduct attacks against the United States. It also found that al Qaeda's central leadership, based in the border area of Pakistan, is and will remain the most serious terrorist threat to the United States."
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flyonthewallzz1 year, 7 months ago
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"We are telling the Americans too that they should be patient. Whatever their plans, they should be cautious and balanced: We are asking them to come up with whatever evidence they have against Osama bin Laden; What I would like to know is how do we save Afghanistan and Taliban. And how do we ensure that they suffer minimum losses: I am sure that you will favor that we do so and bring some improvement by working with the nations of the world. At this juncture, I am worried about Pakistan only."
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/pakist...
delivered 19 September 2001
Address to People of Pakistan
President General Pervez Musharraf
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ETproductions1 year, 7 months ago
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Bush failed at so many things. But this is one place where he succeeded. We had Bin Laden and the Taliban leadership locked down at Tora Bora.
http://www.antiwar.com/sperry/?articleid=10981
CIA officer Gary Berntsen states in his book, Jawbreaker that Bin Laden could have been captured if United States Central Command had committed the troops that Berntsen had requested. CIA questioning of Al Qaeda detainees in Guantanamo confirm his account.
Bush let Bin Laden go because catching him or killing him in 2001 would have derailed plans for his invasion of Iraq.
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walden31 year, 7 months ago
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Which party would benefit more, god forbid, there was another attack before the November election?
What are the chances that the terrorist warning flag is going to be put back in use again? I guess there's no need of the alert level going up and down if an election isn't approaching.
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Will13131 year, 7 months ago
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Which party would benefit more, god forbid, there was another attack before the November election
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what's your opinion.. both sides will TRY to use it against the other.. and there's still the 28%ers... and the right wing talk radio propaganda machine...so i'd say the republicans..
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RussianThreats1 year, 7 months ago
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"Take the so-called politics of fear â;; the constant reference to risks, from hoodies on the street corner to international terrorism. Whatever the truth of these risks and the best ways of dealing with them, the politics of fear plays on an assumption that people cannot bear the uncertainties associated with them. Politics then becomes a question of who can better deliver an illusion of control."
-Ex-vicar Mark Vernon quoted in "God. Who knows?", BBC News, 4 December 2006
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Dionys1 year, 7 months ago
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If there's another attack, we won't have to worry about elections thanks to NPSD-51:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05...
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Tangent0011 year, 7 months ago
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An interesting thing about the terror alert level constantly being announced in airports. Have you noticed it's been at orange since August 10, 2006. Have you also noticed that even though it's been at the same level for a year and a half, the announcer always says it has been RAISED to orange.
Listen next time your at the airport. It's positively Orwellian. I'm waiting for the announcement of the glorious victory at the Malabar front.
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panzerv1 year, 7 months ago
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Here we go again, okay everybody be frightened. The terrorists are coming back, and let me guess, this time they will come from Iran. THAT must be where Bin baby went. No wonder they couldn't find him in Afghanistan. I hate to think that they would pull yet another "9/11" I can't imagine why they would even bother.
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Charlson1 year, 7 months ago
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Afghanistan is another disaster in the making. It's central government, propped up by the multi-national forces and only in control of less than a third of Afghanistan, is weak and for the most part ineffectual. Most of northern Afghanistan is in the control of drug warlords. In the South the Taliban has reemerged. And our resources, there, is a pittance of what we are now wasting in Iraq. Bush doesn't know how to win so all he's doing is a holding pattern until someone more competent than he is assumes the presidency.
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TrueProgressive1 year, 7 months ago
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ET Productions,
You are absolutely right, Bush allowed bin Laden to escape because to have killed or captured him then would have deflated the lies that Saddam had WMD or was connected to 9-11. Moreover, by eliminating bin Laden, Bush would have lost his bogey man to conjure up and scare the American public when things turned bad for the administration. If bin Laden had been eliminated, Bush would have forced into actually having to do something constructive, a terrifying prospect in Bushworld. Cretins like "libs" ignore that Bush and bin Laden are in symbiosis. They need each other to legitimize themselves before their own constituencies. This explains, for example, why bin Laden returned the favor in 2004 with his election eve video appearing to endorse Kerry. Bin Laden bet that many Americans, being the dumbf**ks that they are, would fail to perceive his reverse psychology and would be fooled into re-electing Bush. bin Laden was right.
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BravoSierra1 year, 7 months ago
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True very astute analysis of the situation. We have two paranoid schizophrenics of paranoid type with non-bizarre, well elaborated delusions acting out in a symbiotic self-fulfilling relationship. The radical right jumped on board with a folie de deux or shared delusion. The war profiteers in the US and Saudi Arabia are rubbing their hands together in glee as are the Chinese who are the real winners in this. By funding funding both us and our opposition they have focused our attention upon and have drained our national resources on a limited objective offensive action at virtually no cost to them. Iran and China have executed two of the most brilliant strategic moves in the past 100 years. What's doubly brilliant is that the Chinese based the entire move on knowing their enemy, Bush. It's been a brilliant manipulation based upon his psychopathology.
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dunkirk1 year, 7 months ago
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But But th3ey were all but obliterated, but but they are spiritless and depressed, but but htey have no base from which to operate, but but we got their No 2 (for the 50th time), but but WE'VE been being lied to and seem to accept it.
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BravoSierra1 year, 7 months ago
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The administration and military commanders who went along with this stupidity (as opposed to the ones who recognized it was stupidity and got fired) treat it like body counts in Vietnam. They measure performance using totally irrelevant measures. Not so much of a lie as simple stupidity and failure to recognize what they are dealing with. It's taken them 3 years to create the "petraeus generation" and figure out how to fight something they should have seen coming 30 years before when the war plans for this war were originally written.
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TrueProgressive1 year, 7 months ago
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That's how the neo-clown right operates. (I love that term "neo-clown.") If the facts don't fit, revise the facts.
Paul Krugman shows a great example of this in his new book, "Conscience of a Liberal." He cites a neo-clown writer claiming that Reagan's tax cuts spurred growth unparalleled since the Civil War. Wrong. The boom period of the 50's and 60's was the greatest economic growth in human history, and resulted entirely from the strong middle class CREATED by the New Deal policies. Ahh to be a right wing writer, and have the luxury of simply making history vanish to deal with contrary or unpleasant facts.
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