http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/09/politics/09home.html?hp
Hmm...those tens of thousands of troops in Iraq...hmmm...
Wonder how they'd have done in surrounding that small area along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border had they NOT been sent to Iraq? Wonder how they'd have done if they were put in-country as soon as possible, instead of sending less than 10,000 troops five months after 9/11?
I wonder why there's such a strong push now against Pakistan to do something when, for the last 2 1/2 years, the efforts were not seen?
Abu Ghraib is plastered all over the news and Ashcroft comes out with a terror warning (and gets b!tch-slapped by Ridge who says there's no new evidence.)
Kerry picks Edwards and, WHAM!, a new terror warning with absolutely no specifics comes out again.
Hmmmmm...
Rove and Racicot must think they're geniuses.
WASHINGTON, July 8 - Osama bin Laden and his chief lieutenants, operating from hideouts suspected to be along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, are directing a Qaeda effort to launch an attack in the United States sometime this year, senior Bush administration officials said on Thursday.
"What we know about this most recent information is that it is being directed from the seniormost levels of the Al Qaeda organization," said a senior official at a briefing for reporters. He added, "We know that this leadership continues to operate along the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan."
Counterterrorism officials have said for weeks that they are increasingly worried by a continuing stream of intelligence suggesting that Al Qaeda wanted to carry out a significant terror attack on United States soil this year. But until the comments of the senior administration officials on Thursday, it was not clear that Mr. bin Laden and top deputies like Ayman Zawahiri were responsible for the concern.
Hmm...those tens of thousands of troops in Iraq...hmmm...
Wonder how they'd have done in surrounding that small area along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border had they NOT been sent to Iraq? Wonder how they'd have done if they were put in-country as soon as possible, instead of sending less than 10,000 troops five months after 9/11?
I wonder why there's such a strong push now against Pakistan to do something when, for the last 2 1/2 years, the efforts were not seen?
Abu Ghraib is plastered all over the news and Ashcroft comes out with a terror warning (and gets b!tch-slapped by Ridge who says there's no new evidence.)
Kerry picks Edwards and, WHAM!, a new terror warning with absolutely no specifics comes out again.
Hmmmmm...
Rove and Racicot must think they're geniuses.