The Seattle Times: Nation & World: U.S. eliminates annual terrorism report
OK, so you’ve got Shrub telling us over and over that we’re making progress on “The War on Terra”. We’ve got the terrists on run! We’re going to fight them on their turf so we don’t have to fight them on our turf. Problem is, since the beginning of Gulf War II: Junior’s Revenge!, his own State Department keeps compiling these statistics that show the amount of worldwide terrorism to be increasing, not decreasing:
According to Johnson and U.S. intelligence officials, statistics that the National Counterterrorism Center provided to the State Department reported 625 “significant” terrorist attacks in 2004. That compared with 175 such incidents in 2003, the highest number in two decades.
The statistics didn’t include attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, which President Bush as recently as Tuesday called “a central front in the war on terror.”
So even forgetting the attacks on our troops (1,558 deaths so far), there were 350% more significant terrorist attacks from 2003 to 2004. Naturally, the reaction to this severe news would be to review our foreign policy and try to discover the meaning behind such an increase in terrorism, right?
The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government’s top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered.
Or you could just ignore the statistics and refuse to disclose them to the public, I suppose. Pay no attention to the worldwide increase in terrorism, folks. We know what we’re doing, and it’s working to defuse terrorism… really, it is!
Sheesh, first they ignore credible intelligence about Saddam’s lack of WMD to start a war they wanted, they sell us completely bogus intelligence to get us to go along with the war they wanted, and now they suppress vital information showing the failure of the war to produce the solutions they promised to the problem they claim to be solving, a problem that was never their motivation for the war in the first place.
I’m taking wagers — how long before they completely gut the Freedom of Information Act?
