Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Imcompetence, Greed and Downright Idiocy
While reading the Washington Post article awhile back (below), my sense of outrage escalated with each sentence. The Bush Administration has demonstrated total incompetence on pursuing (or even TRYING to pursue) the terrorists responsible for 9-11. In our fight against the “enemies of freedom/ democracy”, Pres. Bush is leaving the search for the terrorists who killed 3,000 innocent U.S. civilians to the country of Pakistan??? a country run by a military dictator???? (who seized power by coup in 1999?)
Only days after the Sept. 11th attacks, Bush stated that Osama bin Laden would be “sorely mistaken” to think he could “hide from the U.S.” Today, of course, Bush rarely mentions bin Laden -- and now, due to total incompetence and corporate greed/$$$$$, the trail for bin Laden has gone cold, even as more of our dedicated troops lose their lives conducting a “war against terrorism” in IRAQ --- while Halliburton, the Carlyle Group, the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root, and other war-profiteering corporations become filthy rich. In fact, Pres. Bush has already given away $40 billion of our hard-earned tax dollars to war profiteering CEOs. Where the hell are America’s priorities and why are 52% of Americans blinded to what is going on???
Found at: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushpic8.htm
Read below article (excerpts only - full article at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6652577/
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By Robin Wright and Peter Baker
Washingtonpost.com
Updated: 12:32 a.m. ET Dec. 5, 2004
WASHINGTON - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said yesterday that the search for Osama bin Laden has gone completely cold, with no recent intelligence indicating where he and his top lieutenants are hiding.
More than three years after al Qaeda's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon killed almost 3,000 people, Musharraf insisted that Pakistani forces are still aggressively pursuing the world's most notorious terrorist. But he acknowledged that recent security force operations and interrogations have been able to determine only one fact — that bin Laden is still alive.
"He is alive, but more than that, where he is, no, it'll be just a guess and it won't have much basis," Musharraf said in an interview with Washington Post editors and reporters. Pressed on whether the trail had gone cold, he said, "Yes, if you mean we don't know, from that point of view, we don't know where he is."
The United States shares major responsibility, Musharraf suggested, because the U.S.-led coalition does not have enough troops in Afghanistan, which has left "voids." The United States and its allies need to expedite training and expansion of the new Afghan army as the only viable alternative, he said.
Challenges in Afghanistan would be better dealt with "if the Afghan national army is raised faster, in more strength, so that they can reach out to fill these voids that I am talking about, where U.S. forces or coalition forces are not there," he said.
Musharraf also pressed the White House to more aggressively press for resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, which he said is the key to defusing tensions in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Islamic world. "This is the source of all problems," he said. Bush, he added, now appears "more focused and serious" about ending the Middle East conflict. (Emphasis added). "
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Kind of says it all, doesn't it???????????????????????????? Too sad, really.
Only days after the Sept. 11th attacks, Bush stated that Osama bin Laden would be “sorely mistaken” to think he could “hide from the U.S.” Today, of course, Bush rarely mentions bin Laden -- and now, due to total incompetence and corporate greed/$$$$$, the trail for bin Laden has gone cold, even as more of our dedicated troops lose their lives conducting a “war against terrorism” in IRAQ --- while Halliburton, the Carlyle Group, the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root, and other war-profiteering corporations become filthy rich. In fact, Pres. Bush has already given away $40 billion of our hard-earned tax dollars to war profiteering CEOs. Where the hell are America’s priorities and why are 52% of Americans blinded to what is going on???
Found at: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushpic8.htm
Read below article (excerpts only - full article at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6652577/
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By Robin Wright and Peter Baker
Washingtonpost.com
Updated: 12:32 a.m. ET Dec. 5, 2004
WASHINGTON - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said yesterday that the search for Osama bin Laden has gone completely cold, with no recent intelligence indicating where he and his top lieutenants are hiding.
More than three years after al Qaeda's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon killed almost 3,000 people, Musharraf insisted that Pakistani forces are still aggressively pursuing the world's most notorious terrorist. But he acknowledged that recent security force operations and interrogations have been able to determine only one fact — that bin Laden is still alive.
"He is alive, but more than that, where he is, no, it'll be just a guess and it won't have much basis," Musharraf said in an interview with Washington Post editors and reporters. Pressed on whether the trail had gone cold, he said, "Yes, if you mean we don't know, from that point of view, we don't know where he is."
The United States shares major responsibility, Musharraf suggested, because the U.S.-led coalition does not have enough troops in Afghanistan, which has left "voids." The United States and its allies need to expedite training and expansion of the new Afghan army as the only viable alternative, he said.
Challenges in Afghanistan would be better dealt with "if the Afghan national army is raised faster, in more strength, so that they can reach out to fill these voids that I am talking about, where U.S. forces or coalition forces are not there," he said.
Musharraf also pressed the White House to more aggressively press for resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, which he said is the key to defusing tensions in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Islamic world. "This is the source of all problems," he said. Bush, he added, now appears "more focused and serious" about ending the Middle East conflict. (Emphasis added). "
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Kind of says it all, doesn't it???????????????????????????? Too sad, really.
