What’s in a Comma.
25 September 2006 6:30 am by Taylor Marsh
What's in a Comma.
Faces of soldiers, all dead, having given their lives for their country.
Are these soldiers “just
comma”?
Are these soldiers “just
a comma”?
How about these
soldiers?
There are pages and pages of “commas” for the president to ponder,
but I'd like to know something else.
If the National Intelligence Estimate was put together in April 2006, why have
you been giving speeches that we are all safer, which directly refutes the NIE?
It's 2002 all over again, only this time the NIE wasn't rushed out, but held
back.
It was held back for months.
And months.
And months.
In the hopes of getting beyond yet another election season. But this time…
It.
Didn't.
Work.
The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,” it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe.
(snip)
“New jihadist networks and cells, sometimes united by little more than
their anti-Western agendas, are increasingly likely to emerge,” said
Gen. Michael V. Hayden, during a speech in San Antonio in April, the month
that the new estimate was completed. “If this trend continues, threats
to the U.S. at home and abroad will become more diverse and that could lead
to increasing attacks worldwide,” said the general, who was then Mr.
Negroponte’s top deputy and is now director of the Central Intelligence
Agency.For more than two years, there has been tension between the Bush administration
and American spy agencies over the violence in Iraq and the prospects for
a stable democracy in the country. Some intelligence officials have said the
White House has consistently presented a more optimistic picture of the situation
in Iraq than justified by intelligence reports from the field.(snip)
More recently, the Council on Global Terrorism, an independent research group
of respected terrorism experts, assigned a grade of “D+” to United
States efforts over the past five years to combat Islamic extremism. The council
concluded that “there is every sign that radicalization in the Muslim
world is spreading rather than shrinking.”
They didn't want us to know what was in the Senate Intel Report – Phase II
until after the 2004 presidential election.
What else will we learn after it's too late?
Who can you trust?
It's.
Not.
The.
Republicans.
Oh, and one more thing. God isn't still speaking. He's finally been rendered speechless.
