In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Thanks to George's little war: `Next wave' of terrorists taking shape
WASHINGTON -- Even if Al Qaeda is crushed, terrorist threats will remain because of a global surge in anti-Americanism, the emergence of dozens of groups representing terrorism's "next wave" and the worldwide spread of Al Qaeda's philosophy and "destructive expertise," the nation's top intelligence officials said Tuesday.
Still, CIA Director George Tenet and Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said Osama bin Laden's network itself remains the greatest immediate threat to Americans.
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Plunge in support for U.S.
"Support for America has dropped in most of the Muslim world," Jacoby said in a statement to the committee. Favorable ratings for the U.S. among Moroccans dropped to 27 percent a year ago from 77 percent in 2000, he said. In Jordan, a key partner in the war on terrorism, those rates went to 1 percent last May from an already dismal 25 percent in 2002.
All of this, Jacoby said, is increasing pressure on governments that are important to U.S. efforts against terrorism.
Under George's leadership, al Qaeda is still strong and we're breeding new enemies like rabbits. The legacy of Bush will be a dark cloud for decades to come.
The environment for the hearing was dramatically different from last year, when the Bush administration was poised to attack Iraq over Saddam Hussein's alleged stockpiles of banned weapons and purported links to Al Qaeda.
Tenet stated definitively last year, "I think we will find caches of weapons of mass destruction, absolutely."
No such weapons have been found, but Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, asked members to hold questions about lapses in the Iraq intelligence until a closed-door hearing with Tenet scheduled for next week.
Aww that's sweet. Roberts was so thoughtful as to have anything embarrassing said about our intelligence services (or how their reports were manipulated and cheery picked by a war mongering administration) be said in private. Us taxpayers really don't want to know what's going on. Roberts is soooo thoughtful.
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