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The Cleaner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 09:06 AM
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Bush Counterterrorism Advisors: Your Anti-Terror Strategy in Pakistan is a COMPLETE FAILURE.
But that's okay, cuz "Bin Laden? Well I really don't think about him so much..."


WASHINGTON, July 17 — President Bush’s top counterterrorism advisers acknowledged Tuesday that the strategy for fighting Osama bin Laden’s leadership of Al Qaeda in Pakistan had failed, as the White House released a grim new intelligence assessment that has forced the administration to consider more aggressive measures inside Pakistan.

Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, in Turbat recently. His strategy in tribal areas has been criticized by President Bush’s advisers.

The intelligence report, the most formal assessment since the Sept. 11 attacks about the terrorist threat facing the United States, concludes that the United States is losing ground on a number of fronts in the fight against Al Qaeda, and describes the terrorist organization as having significantly strengthened over the past two years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/washington/18intel.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
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GOTV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 09:10 AM
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1. "Complete Faiilure" is just another way to say "Turning a corner"....
.... after all, you only turn a corner when your current direction has no hope of getting your where you want to go.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 09:10 AM
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2. "Smirk, smirk, smirk" - Commander AWOL
Edited on Wed Jul-18-07 09:12 AM by SpiralHawk

"Smirk. You were expecting something other than abject failure from a Connecticut preppy c-student Deserter, who pretends he is a Texan, and who has totally screwed up with everything he has ever been involved with? Smirk, smirk, smirk.

"And now back to my record-breaking vacations. Smirk, smirk, smirk."

- Commander AWOL


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