Terrorism Increases So Bury The Report

I don't much go for highly emotive rants but if ever an issue deserved it, it is this - the annual National Counterterrorism Center report was about to say that global terrorism was at an all time high in 2004, so the Bush administration killed it.

Luckily, I dont have to write the rant - Mark Morford at SF Gate already did a crackling job:


Oh my God I feel so much safer. Don't you?

I mean, don't you feel so much more secure in your all-American gun-totin' oil-happy lifestyle now that we have wasted upward of $300 billion worth of your child's future education budget, along with 1,600 disposable young American lives and over 20,000 innocent Iraqi lives and about 10,000 severed American limbs and untold wads of our spiritual and moral currency, all to protect America from terrorism that is, by every account, only getting worse? Nastier? More nebulous? More anti-American?

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The obliteration of the National Counterterrorism Center report merely goes to prove what so many of us already know -- that BushCo's brutish and borderline traitorous actions since they leveraged 9/11 to blatantly screw the nation have done exactly nothing to stem the tide of terrorism -- and, in fact, have, by most every measure, apparently increased the threat of terrorism. In other words, the world is a more dangerous place because of George W. Bush. Is that clear enough?


If justifiable rant is an art form then this one is a masterpiece. Read it.

UPDATE 26th April

Just to underscore the point that the White House have been spinning stories like tops, General Richard Myers who is currently chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff has told the BBC that Iraqi insurgents have lost none of their capacity to stage attacks:

I think their capacity stays about the same. And where they are right now is where they were almost a year ago.

There are currently 50 to 60 insurgent attacks a day, the same level as one year ago.

Isn't it amazing how many administration appointees go back on the spin they were given to spout as soon as they know their days are numbered?