Previous Boasts Of Success Against Al-Qaeda Come Back To Haunt GOP

[babylonsister]

http://www.beggarscanbechoosers.com/2007/07/previous-boasts-of-success-against-al.html

Previous Boasts Of Success Against Al-Qaeda Come Back To Haunt GOP
By MARC McDONALD

For years, George W. Bush and the GOP have been boasting that America is winning the fight against Al-Qaeda.

Now that cocky claim has come back to haunt Bush and the Republicans. The Associated Press has reported that U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded al-Qaeda has rebuilt its operating capability to a level not seen since 9/11.

You'd think that Bush would have learned a lesson in humility after his 2003 PR stunt fiasco when he strutted in his flightsuit across the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln beneath the "Mission Accomplished" banner. I mean, here we are four bloody years later, and no end in sight in Iraq's civil war.

And now Bush's boast that America is winning in the fight against al-Qaeda has been completely debunked by the new report by U.S. intelligence analysts.

This latest revelation makes a mockery of the cocky claims that we've been hearing from Bush and his supporters over the years. For example, on Sept. 7, 2006, Bush boasted in a speech to the Georgia Public Policy Foundation that "America is safer and America is winning the War on Terror."

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[Zywiec]

1. They've been rebuilding while our Army is stuck in Iraq n/t

[H2O Man]

6. Right.

This administration has helped them recruit, while our military has become stuck in the Iraqi quagmire. I'm reminded of this quote from the introduction of the book "Imperial Hubris":

" 'We thank God for appeasing us with the dilemma in Iraq after afghanistan,' Ayman al-Zawahiri said in late 2003. 'The Americans are facing a delicate situation in both countries. If they withdraw they will lose everything and if the stay, they will continue to bleed to death'." (page xxi)

[Ganja Ninja]

2. Relax, Joe Lieberman says we have them on the run and things

are getting better every day.:thumbsup:

[opihimoimoi]

3. How Much can the American people take before they figure out this Bush dude is all BS CRAP?

[fasttense]

4. And where is Bin Laden?

Maybe if he had been caught, al-Qaeda wouldn't be so powerful now.

[slj0101]

5. Don't you see? Al-Qaeda's resurgence is all the liberals' fault!

That'll be the new spin, if it hasn't happened already- I guarantee it.

[assclown_bush]

7. I don't doubt you for one second...

repugs will try to worm their way out of the responsibility.