Boy, Are They Slow To Get It

According to CIA data released yesterday, 11,000 attacks worldwide, killing more than 14,600 non-combatants, including 8,300 in Iraq. Of the 56 American civilians killed by terrorists in 2005, some 47 of them were in Iraq. They stated this shows the war has become driving factor for extremists. Three years after its invasion of Iraq the US Administration acknowledged yesterday that the war has become “a cause” for Islamic extremists worldwide and there is a risk of the country becoming a safe haven for terrorists hoping to launch fresh attacks on America.
Isn’t this what we have been trying to get across to these people? The one stated reason for the terrorists to be against us, is our continued military presence in Saudi Arabia and the other Arab nations? Then when you add the torture at Abu Ghraib, you could not have had a better enrollment add for joining a terrorist group. Are Mr. Bush and this Administration really that stupid?
Or is that part of the plan? If you want to have wars for a hundred years, you must have some group to use as an excuse. To sow fear. Maybe they are smart enough to think of this. But, it still is stupid, for all civilization. Unless you are in bed with the Corporations who make money out of war. Oh right! My stupid!

The figures in the State Department’s annual report on terror represented a fourfold rise compared with 2004, partly because it has adopted a broader definition of such incidents since having to withdraw data used two years ago on the ground that it was grossly understated. Officials conceded yesterday that the rising violence in Iraq was a factor in last year’s figures, saying that fatalities from terrorism there had “probably doubled”
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The State Department said that al-Qaeda as a worldwide terrorist network was getting weaker — but a growing threat had emerged from small and “difficult to detect” groups who were using the internet.
This trend means there could be a larger number of smaller attacks, less meticulously planned, and local rather than transnational in scope,” it said. These included the attacks on London last year which, the US says, were followed by two further thwarted plots. It was not yet clear if the July 7 bombers “had any ties to al-Qaeda or other international terrorist organizations”. Instead, they pointed to “a new phenomenon in global terrorism — that of homegrown terrorism in Europe. {Source}

“Since having to withdraw data used two years ago on the ground that it was grossly understated.” Why was this understated? Were they pressured to understate it by this Administration, to keep us from knowing the truth? It is hard to sell the war that is supposedly being fought to make us safer, if because of the war the terrorists are getting bigger and stronger. As usual, the truth is against what Mr. Bush and this Administration says and does.
“The truth will set you free”. I am ready for the truth being told now, not years later. Free from the lies. Free from these never ending wars. Free from Mr. Bush and this Administration.
This November, let freedom ring. Vote the Republicans out. Give Democracy a chance in America.
Let us shout, “Free at last, free at last, Thank God we and the world are free at last”! And keep the shouting going until the 2008 election, when we can throw the rest of the bastards out of government. Send them home. Let them be free at last.