SOTU: Terrorist Attacks Have Intensified
SOTU: Terrorist Attacks Have Intensified
Bush said: “We remain on the offensive against terror networks. We have killed or captured many of their leaders – and for the others, their day will come.”
FACT — GLOBAL TERRORIST THREAT HAS INTENSIFIED: More than four years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is still alive, al Qaeda has spawned new terrorist networks, and global terrorism is on the rise. According to the Bush administration’s own statistics, the problem of international terrorism is worse now than it was in 2001. The sum of global terrorist attacks in 2005 was 3991, up 51% from the previous year’s figure of 2639. According to State Department data, the number of international terrorist attacks tripled to 650 in 2004. In May 2004, the London-based Institute for Strategic Studies reported that “al-Qaeda’s recruitment and fundraising efforts had been given a major boost by the U.S. invasion of Iraq,” and the Afghan Defense Minister recently claimed that al Qaeda had “increased its activities in Afghanistan.” [Time, 5/26/04; Reuters, 4/26/05; AP, 11/16/05; tkb.org]
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His heart doesn’t seem into it…Seems tired and bored….Anyone else feel this??
January 31st, 2006 at 9:18 pmIt’s past his bed time.
January 31st, 2006 at 9:21 pm#2, when you’ve rehearsed the same speech a hundred times and you know it’s all BS it’s difficult to deliver it with conviction.
January 31st, 2006 at 9:23 pmHe doesn’t give a shit about any of it, he’s just trying to get people to write nice things about him in the history books.
January 31st, 2006 at 9:25 pm