Bush vs. Terror: Something's Working »
Posted By bobo-in-texas 1 year, 5 months ago in NewsBased on the historical record, the Bush administration obviously has done something since 2001 to dramatically improve our security against terrorism. To fail to recognize this is to sow the seeds of greatly increased susceptibility to terrorist attacks in the next administration.
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Dionys1 year, 5 months ago
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"Empirically, however, something clearly has made us safer since 2001. Successful attacks on the United States and its interests overseas have not increased, as had been widely predicted, but instead dwindled to virtually nothing. "
Lie.
"the Bush administration obviously has done something since 2001 to dramatically improve our security against terrorism."
By the same logic this article employs, the Bush administration has also obviously done something since 2001 to dramatically improve our security against a giant asteroid destroying the earth.
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bobo-in-texas1 year, 5 months ago
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donald511 year, 5 months ago
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Bobo, you really are an idiot!
almost 300 % increase in terrorist attacks worldwide since teh Iraq invasion. Dumya never caught the Anthrax killer and has said he doens't even care if he gets Bin laden. Then he dismantles the 911 Commission that he didn't want in the first place because he knows he would get the same F's he got when the Commission was active.
Neither of the two people you mentioned would have surrounded themselves with such incompetent people as to ignore a Presidential brief titled: "OBL Determined to Attack Inside the USA", that mentioned the use of planes. What an idiot you are!
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NoWayMan1 year, 5 months ago
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this "no attacks since 911" stuff is nothing more than a big fat lie.
since 911...
anthrax attack. 5 dead. no leads. no arrests.
Saudi Arabia, numerous attacks on US interests (including our embassy) and numerous American deaths since 911.
attacks on US consulates/embassies in Pakistan, Greece, Syria, Yemen, Serbia. plus thwarted attacks in France, Azerbijan, Austria.
the story says that for 2004 - 2008 there's been "No successful attacks by terrorist groups inside the United States or against American interests abroad."
more lies.
2004 Saudi Arabia:
- terrorists kidnap and execute Paul Johnson Jr. 2 other Americans and BBC cameraman killed by gun attacks.
- terrorists storm the US consulate, kill 5 consulate employees.
2005 Jordan:
- Suicide bombers hit 3 American hotels (Radisson, Grand Hyatt, Days Inn). 57 dead.
2007 Greece:
- US embassy attacked by anti-tank missiles. damage but no injuries.
so, enough with the lies!!
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icono11 year, 5 months ago
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donald511 year, 5 months ago
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Great, the article starts with all the stuff during clinton's tenure, but doesn't mention that the repug Congress refused to fund any of the Clinton anti-terror requests or that Clinton and Clark passed Al Qaeda off to Dumya as the greatest threat; but, Dumya, was too busy setting a presidential record for being on vacation!
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bamababy1 year, 5 months ago
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Someone is over looking the 4,000 dead American soldiers who've been killed fighting Bushs' war, are they not csualities of terrorism? Gearge Bush's terrorism? While i'll conceed that there have'nt been any new attacks on US soil, we are a very long way away from being safe, under this administration or the next.
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TOD3961 year, 5 months ago
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"While i'll conceed that there have'nt been any new attacks on US soil, we are a very long way away from being safe, under this administration or the next."
Would you rather have had our country run as Obama wanted to? Where we wait for the terrorists to come to us? Strike in our major cities? Attack our children in our schools?
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TOD3961 year, 5 months ago
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It's hard to argue with results. I am honored and proud of America's Armed Forces. They have shown the world that America is still the best in the world. While there have been casualties and injuries, they were unfortunately necessary to preserve the safety of all Americans at home and abroad. For this, I am thankful to be in America. I sleep better at night, still watchful, but I sleep better.
God Bless America.
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Jaydee401 year, 5 months ago
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Considering for how many years now that the US has spent more on defense than the rest of the world combined and all the technology that money has bought the so called best army in the world, they have failed against the most backward, poorly armed people in the world. Spending all that money on the military had crippled the economy to a point where the US dollar has devalued by almost fifty percent and you brag about being able to sleep better?
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Commodore11 year, 5 months ago
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fsev411 year, 5 months ago
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Funny thing but Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Lebanon seemed to be mentioned more than once while Iraq only gets one mention. Are S.A. and Pakistan really our allies in this war on terror or are they just playing us for fools. Maybe we should be concentrating our anti-terrorists efforts where the terrorists are.
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rimbaud1 year, 5 months ago
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We have thwarted more Terrorist attacks from cooperative police work than the war in Iraq. Terrorism is something you have to be vigilant against and stirring up violence n the world is not going to convince suicide bent terrorists to give up from far of war with the big bad USA.
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rimbaud1 year, 5 months ago
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The terrorists are not rich and powerful, like us. They try to get as much mileage as they can from a few dramatic acts of terror (that's what terrorism is). The reason there has not been "another 911" is we are doing a good job, all by ourselves, of extending the "mileage" from the first one. Which of them ever imagined they would be elevated to the number-one feared enemy of the world's greatest military power? How can a handful of terrorists do so much damage to us, at so little cost to themselves? I guess thay know how to draw us in, eh? By creating a trillion dollar war against them, we have inflated their importance and amplified their effect. Iraq has become the jihadist battleground Afghanistan was during the Soviet occupation. It is the children of those we assembled to fight the Soviets who are fighting us, now. Iraq is AlQaeda's live terrorist training lab and world jihadi recruitment center. There's no way we can leave, now.
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Grrr1 year, 5 months ago
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So, uh, now the insurgents in Iraq AREN'T terrorists? I don't see the daily attacks in Iraq in this tally. DAILY.
Making this article's conclusions COMPLETE BS.
Throw those in and terrorist attacks on US interests abroad have escalated IMMENSELY.
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rimbaud1 year, 5 months ago
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Gransater1 year, 5 months ago
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As Grr points out above, if you include attacks in Iraq, then this article is way off.
Exclude Iraq, and I conced the numbers have gone down. I just wonder if this hasn't more to do with the fact that every western nation in the world has dramatically increased their security, particularly at international airports, harbors and common borders. Has Bush had anything to do with that? We could probably debate that aswell.
Do we feel safer? Ask all the families that are having to choose between food and fuel to go to work, ask all those needing medical attention, but can't afford it, and so on. Should this kind of "safe" be included in the statement that "Something is Working"? I believe so, because its in direct proportion to what decisions are being made in Washington. Something is working allright, but in my view, not for the better.
Also, if the Dems don't have enough majority to override a presidential veto, effectively they are N O T in majority.
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endtyranny1 year, 5 months ago
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If there's any question as to how successful this administration's policies have been, I'd just like to remind us that not only did the most devastating terrorist attack in American history happen on Bush's watch, but that the number of worldwide terrorist attacks each year has grown exponentially since he took office.
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svensun1 year, 5 months ago
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It is more than OBVIOUS that the Bush strategy on terrorism: "the best defense is a GOOD OFFENSE", has WORKED VERY WELL, even better than I thought and would have expected. The strategy is clearly laid out in Doug Feith's new book, WAR AND DECISION, and it is clear that Bush's desire to wage a worldwide offensive against Islamofascist terrorism, with a strategy devised by Donald Rumsfeld and his advisors, has paid off in spades, no pun intended!
Of course the left will deny this; they denied that Hitler was a threat, too, when their Uncle Joe told them to embrace Fascism. The left had no credibility to begin with, so their carping, whining, and hysterics are nothing more than par for the course.
The louder they scream and holler, the more you know that America is winning. That's the bottom line.
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