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Oh Dear: "Al-Qaida has revived, spread and is capable of a spectacular"
guardian.co.uk — It wasn't easy but the Bush regime has finally managed to create the threat they always promised and hoped was there. "Asked whether al-Qaida had the capacity now to carry out a 9/11-style attack, and whether it was stronger than in 9/11, Nigel Inkster, the institute's director of transnational threats and political risk, replied: "Both"..."
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- rooftopsuicide, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1wow. this story, after reading the conspiracy 'theory' story earlier today. i'm going to the grocery store tomorrow...i have a feeling i may be inside all weekend.
- WeeWeeDance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0It wasn't easy.
After 9/11 Bush had the support of most of the world - even countries like Iran shrugged in a 'what did you expect' sort of way as the Taleban and Afghanistan got slapped around by the coalition.
But through sheer effort of will and some ingeniously ignorant policies, Bush's clique have managed to unify great swathes of people who previously had little more then enmity for each other and divide people who previously lived side by side. They nearly went too far though, they actually got quite close to eradicating Al-Qaeda altogether. That would have been a disaster for the "War on Terror". I mean, you can't have a war without an enemy now, can you?
"Mr Inkster, a former director of MI6 who was a candidate for the secret intelligence agency's top job three years ago, said there was much debate within al-Qaida after the September 11 attacks on the US. Many of its supporters believed the operation was a "tactical error", Mr Inkster said, because it led to the removal of a safe base - Taliban-controlled southern Afghanistan."
Effectively pulling out of Afghanistan and the ingenious idea of going into Iraq without finishing off the Taleban has now ensured a generation of war.
"The US and its allies have failed to deal a death blow to al-Qaida; the organisation's ideology appears to have taken root to such a degree that it will
require decades to eradicate,"
Massive profits for his mates and his family if a bit shortsighted. I'm not that sure his children and grandchildren will get a chance to spend the winnings. Shame really, all that effort going to waste.
".. the US suffered a loss of authority as a result of the failure to impose order in Iraq. "The strategic hole the US found itself in [in 2007] did not have any obvious escape; "
I reckon Bush isn't worried about what history will say of him, because he knows he's already rubbed out the future.
"You're either with us or against us" what an ingenious tool. - siszam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Bush sent thousands of our young men and women to die for profit and used the excuse that we must fight terrorism or else. Years later, they are saying terrorists are just as strong as before. In other words, soldiers are dead or disabled for life all for nothing. Just as the anti war people said it would happen. Bush and his friends don't have enough money so here we go again.
How can anyone still buy into the Bush propaganda and not see what is going on?!
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