Half a decade and several hundred billion dollars later, the "intelligence" community has had an epiphany:
The nation's spy agencies don't think the Iraq war has reduced the threat of terrorism. In fact, they concluded that the war has contributed to an increased threat.The assessment comes in a National Intelligence Estimate, which represents a consensus view of the 16 spy services inside the government. It's classified, but published accounts of the report are being confirmed by an intelligence official. It finds that the war helped create a new generation of Islamic radicalism, and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since Nine-Eleven.
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Before 911 I knew we would see a terrorist attack on our soil at some time in the future because the Islamic world felt we were a threat. Or a meddling neighbor. I didn't expect anything as big as 911. Now that we know what they can do. Whats next?
God Bless America, God Save The Republic.
God has blessed America... with a warmongering administration Doh!
God save the republic from itself.
"I didn't expect anything as big as 911"
Well, then its a good thng you weren't in intelligence, becaue they HAVE been expecting such things since the fall of the Soviet Union. They thought it would be nuclear terrorism, of course, but the certainly expected it to be at least the size of 911, if not much larger.
They expected and knew of plots to use airliners as bombs since about 1994, when Ramzi Yousef hatch a plot to imultaneously blow up US airlines over the pacific with suicide bombers and since 1998 when the CAI uncovered a plot to crash an airliner into CIA HQ in Langley Virginia.
You also might remember that 2 CIA agents desparately tried to get Bushes attention, or that the Presidential briefing on the National Intelligence estimate was entitled "Bn Laden Determined to Strike in America"...
It wasn't the intelligence comunity that has failed for the last 5 years...
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