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tha war on terra .....

tha war on terra .....

 

‘Has the war in Iraq increased jihadist terrorism?

The Bush administration has offered two responses: First, the moths-to-aflame argument, which says that Iraq draws terrorists who would otherwise “be plotting and killing Americans across the world and within our own borders,” as President Bush put it in 2005. Second, the hard-to-say position: “Are more terrorists being created in the world?” then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld asked at a press conference in September 2006. “We don’t know. The world doesn’t know. There are not good metrics to determine how many people are being trained in a radical madrasa school in some country.”

In fact, as Rumsfeld knew well, there are plenty of publicly available figures on the incidence and gravity of jihadist attacks. But until now, no one has done a serious statistical analysis of whether an “Iraq effect” does exist. We have undertaken such a study, drawing on data in the mipt-rand Terrorism database (terrorismknowledgebase .org), widely considered the best unclassified database on terrorism incidents.’

Iraq 101: Aftermath - Long-Term Thinking

dear, deluded Laura .....

Last night on Larry King Live, First Lady Laura Bush reiterated her support for the war in Iraq, calling it the Iraqi people's "opportunity to seize the moment, to build a really good & stable country."

The First Lady claimed that "many parts of Iraq are stable now," adding, "but, of course, what we see on television is the one bombing a day that discourages everybody."

In fact, the latest Brookings Institution Iraq Index report found that as of November, 2006, there were approximately 185 insurgent and militia attacks every day. At least 3,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in attacks since the beginning of 2007. Seventy-three U.S. soldiers have died in February alone.

Whilst dear, deluded Laura asserts that leaving Iraq would be a "serious mistake," a Washington Post/ABC News poll found that 53 percent of Americans favour setting a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops & over half of the nation's veteran households say they "strongly believed that the war is not worth fighting."

The same poll found that nearly 70 percent of Americans disapprove of the lovely Laura’s bushit spouse’s handling of the war in Iraq.

On the good Barry Jones

As Laura-Antoinette means "Let them eat falafels and the world will be a cupcake". But If Mr Arvi Parvo is a brilliant business mind according to Ms D (see Al Miranda Degore) one can only ask what has Mr Parvo done to the environment — and does he know it exists — apart from concrete apartment blocks and power poles?

But I wont go and attack Mrs Bush who may say in a designer-fitted dress of non-laughable material: "In American democracy, everyone can become President, even my husband did it..." ... I won't go  there. Instead, I'd like to laud a venerable person. Jones, Barry Jones. A person of character who is a million times cleverer than the "husband who did President".  But he is too nice.

When Barry writes that "the "new normal" depends on instant decisions based on "gut", "instinct" and "faith""... one can despair a bit at his giving of too much good in a rotten lot.. In fact the new normal, especially at governmental Johnnee level, is "screw you or screw yourself, either way I'll take the loot".  No guts, apart from psychopathic tape worm. No instinct, except a shot gun by the bed side... and "faith" .... arrgghhh... that ugly word! A sinner's shop front for lack of knowledge, loaded with hypocritical denial of facts.

Yes Barry, you are too nice. Just wanted to share this with you...

conservafibia

From the Guardian

Conservapedia - the US religious right's answer to Wikipedia

Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent
Friday March 2, 2007
The Guardian

It has been attacked many times in its short life, most notably by a former aide to Robert F Kennedy and the editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica. But now the online reference site Wikipedia has a new foe: evangelical Christians.

A website founded by US religious activists aims to counter what they claim is "liberal bias" on Wikipedia, the open encyclopedia which has become one of the most popular sites on the web. The founders of Conservapedia.com say their site offers a "much-needed alternative" to Wikipedia, which they say is "increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American".