Monday, June 20, 2005
A Quick War on Terror/Homeland Security Update
From the article "Bush's Support on Major Issues Tumbles in Poll" in The New York Times:
"Increasingly pessimistic about Iraq and skeptical about President Bush's plan for Social Security, Americans are in a season of political discontent, giving Mr. Bush one of the lowest approval ratings of his presidency and even lower marks to Congress, according to the New York Times/CBS News Poll.
Still, Mr. Bush continued to have majority support for his handling of the war on terrorism - 52 percent - one of his strengths throughout his 2004 re-election campaign."
Continues to have majority support for his handling of the war on terrorism? WTF, why?! Let's look at the evidence:
- "FBI supervisors in the war on terror have acknowledged they lacked expertise, but Director Robert Mueller says he is unwilling to require such managers to have backgrounds in Arabic, the Middle East or international issues." (full article at The Washington Post)
- "The U.S. government's rushed effort to reorganize after the 9/11 attacks has resulted in overlapping layers of bureaucracy, no single point of accountability and fuzzy lines of responsibility among the agencies that are combating terrorism." (full article at USA Today)
- "The FBI missed several opportunities to uncover and possibly prevent the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, a high-level report has found." (full article at BBC News)
- We’re Fighting Them Over There… So We Can Fight Them Everywhere (Think Progress)
- In fact, the invasion of Iraq has generated anti-American sentiment over there where there had been little or none. (Full article Gulf News via Sploid)
- "Security at American airports is no better under federal control than it was before the Sept. 11 attacks two government reports conclude." (Full article at The New York Times)
- "U.S. and Canadian officials are being pressed to explain how a man carrying a homemade sword, hatchet, knife, brass knuckles and a chainsaw stained with what appeared to be blood was allowed into the U.S." How that for Homeland Security? (full article WKBT.com via Sploid)
And the bonus link:
- Top Ten Things You Wouldn't expect to Happen if You Listened to Bush and Cheney
Of course things are going splendid according to Tweedledumb and Tweedledee. But what do they think, the US public won't eventually cotton on that Bush has been doing as badly on his supposed signature issue as he has on the economy, social security and everything else he has tried to handle that's turned to sh-t? Even respected members of his own party know that the Iraq war has become a hot mess due to his ineptness. And he's STILL lying and pushing the bogus and long-discredited theory of a connection between the 9/11 attack and Iraq. The midterm elections and 2008 can't come soon enough to rid us of this already-lame (in both senses of the word) duck.
