Remind me again, how much tax payer dollars have we spent winning the war on terror?
More importantly, how many lives have been sacrificed for the effort?
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The U.S. count of major world terrorist attacks more than tripled in 2004, a rise that may revive debate on whether the Bush administration is winning the war on terrorism, congressional aides said on Tuesday.
The number of "significant" international terrorist attacks rose to about 650 last year from about 175 in 2003, according to congressional aides briefed on the numbers by State Department and intelligence officials on Monday.
..."What it effectively means is that the Bush administration and the CIA haven't been putting the staff resources necessary and have missed 80 percent of the world's terrorist incidents" in past years, said a Democratic congressional aide. "How can you have an effective counterterrorism policy from that?"
A Republican congressional aide said it would be unfair of Democrats to claim terrorism was getting worse under the Bush administration, stressing that the 2004 and 2003 numbers were not counted in the same way and hence were not comparable. "
That is a conclusion that cannot be drawn because we have no baseline and certainly last year's revised numbers offer no accurate baseline of the universe of terrorist incidents," he said. "Without that you cannot reach an accurate conclusion."
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Do you exept anything less than rhetoric from the reichwing about how the numbers lie?
3 comments:
Great post. It steams me to see conservatives dig into dems about not being hard on terrorism and simply ignore the fact that this admin has only made it worse.
Try as the administration may to distort the numbers to meet their own agenda, one need only turn to any reputible news outlet, at any given time, to see how widespread and increasing terrorist activity has become on Bush's watch.
The question is, how long will it take for Rove & Co to spin this into their version of "see, told you the world's not safe because of terrorists and that's why we need yet another $80B".
And when will the gullability end?
What could be more republican than math tricks? And, when will the gullability end?
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