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Friday, April 06, 2007
One of those "no duh!" moments
By VictorM: One of the notions put forth by the Bush administration to justify the criminal Iraq war was that of cooperation between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda before 9/11/2001. Sane people in the world knew this allegation made no sense at all, but the repetition by this lying administration (even as of yesterday Cheney was lying about this) and the gullibility of their base has allowed this notion to fester.Now, we have one of those "no duh!" moments after recently declassified documents were released:
The declassification came as a result of Democratic Senator Carl Levin's request. I can only imagine what else we will be finding out about the most corrupt regime ever in the history of this country.Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides "all confirmed" that Hussein's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a declassified Defense Department report released yesterday.
Labels: al-qaeda, declassified document, Saddam Hussein
Thursday, March 15, 2007
I did it! I did it! I masterminded it!
By VictorM: Holy mother of James Cameron, the Washington Post thought this was so important that it's the headline on their website as I type this:Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, confessed at a Guantanamo Bay military hearing that he planned and funded that al-Qaeda operation...So, the guy we tortured for months to tell us that he was the mastermind of 9/11 told us what we wanted to hear. This is breaking news?!?! Headline news to boot!?
Hell, all they had to do is threaten me with having to listen to Mariah Carey singing nonstop for a few hours and even I would have confessed to having masterminded 9/11.
Labels: al-qaeda, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of 9/11, terrorism
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Al-Qaeda: Partying Like It's 2001
By Spencer Ackerman: [John McConnell, the new director of national intelligence] declared himself "very concerned" that al-Qaeda's presence in Pakistan presents the "most likely" gestation of the next 9/11-style attack on America. In other words, after two wars, we're in some sense right back where we were before 9/11 itself: unable to invade the territory where al-Qaeda possesses a stronghold and groping for alternatives, while the intelligence community puts out warnings about the urgency of the threat. Except this time, our entire national-security apparatus is overtaxed from the strains of two wars -- wars that were supposed to significantly diminish, if not remove, the very threat that's regaining strength.
Labels: al-qaeda, john mcconnell
A more terrifying place
By Kim Sengupta and Patrick Cockburn: An authoritative US study of terrorist attacks after the invasion in 2003 contradicts the repeated denials of George Bush and Tony Blair that the war is not to blame for an upsurge in fundamentalist violence worldwide... The new study, by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, argues that, on the contrary, "the Iraq conflict has greatly increased the spread of al-Qa'ida ideological virus, as shown by a rising number of terrorist attacks in the past three years from London to Kabul, and from Madrid to the Red Sea... Even when terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan is excluded, fatal attacks in the rest of the world have increased by more than one third."
Labels: al-qaeda, peter bergen, terrorism
Friday, February 23, 2007
Dick Cheney: Amazing track record of being wrong continues
By VictorM: Dick Cheney continues to attack Nancy Pelosi saying the Democrats' policy would "validate the al-Qaeda strategy." One question: how does Dick Cheney know what al-Qaeda's strategy is? Is he trading emails from his bunker with the guys in the caves? Does he get a briefing from the terrorist group? Or he just guessing what al-Qeada's strategy might be? I think it's safe to assume he's guessing because if he KNEW we'd be doing much better against them. Based on Cheney's track record, if we simply did the opposite of what he says we should do, we'd be doing great. So, I'm taking his criticism of the Democrats' strategy for Iraq as a strong sign that it will work.
Labels: al-qaeda, democrats, dick cheney, nancy pelosi
Sunday, February 11, 2007
John Howard's Attack on Obama and Democrats
By VictorM: John Howard, Australia's Prime Minister said: "If I was running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would... pray, as many times as possible, for a victory not only for [US Senator] Obama, but also for the Democrats." Besides being highly innapropriate for a foreign leader to take sides with a political party in another country, this is just another sign that Mr. Howard comes from the same stock as Mr. Bush. In 2004 Americans blew their chance to remove one of these two war mongers from power; I hope Australians exercise better judgment and give Mr. Howard the boot.
Labels: al-qaeda, australia, Barack Obama, barak obama, democrats, Iraq war, john howard
