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| This time, intelligence is with Bush |
| 2006-10-01 |
| TRUTH, like beauty, is apparently to be in the eye of the beholder. That's the only conclusion you can draw from the reaction to the US National Intelligence Estimate entitled Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the US, with a declassified summary of its conclusions released by President George W. Bush after parts were leaked to The New York Times. The media coverage and most political reaction suggests the summary is damning of Bush's position on Iraq. I have two things to say about that. One is that people must be reading a different document from the one I am. The other is that the summary seems to me to ignore some significant considerations. Bush says that if the US were to pull its forces out of Iraq it would lead to increased terrorism and, conversely, that victory in Iraq would be a blow to terrorism. |
| Posted by:Oztralian |
| #2 Well, until the penultimate (that's second from the end)paragraph, I had this guy pegged as a Bush tool. Mebbe that's just to throw off the Kos Kiddies? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-10-01 07:47 |
| #1 Given the almost inconceivable incompetence, misjudgment and delusional pigheadedness of Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, largely unconstrained by Bush, the Republicans deserve a drubbing, and at the moment are more likely than not to get it. Choke on it, Costello. There's more where that came from, too. Back to the subject, I haven't seen anything address how moderate Islam is going to be supported in a way that makes it so attractive to terrorists that they burn all those old made-up copies of the Kuran and change their evil ways. |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-10-01 03:30 |