We're gonna hunt 'em down!...smoke 'em out of their caves!...dead or alive!

[Guest Harry Hope]

We're gonna hunt 'em down!

 

We're gonna smoke 'em out of their caves!

 

We're gonna get 'em dead or alive!

 

So, 4,000 dead and 25,000 wounded U.S. troops and hundreds of billions

of taxpayer dollars later, how's that going?

 

According to a report by the Associated Press last week:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070711/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_terror_threat

 

 

U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded al-Qaida has rebuilt its

operating capability to a level not seen since just before the Sept.

11 terrorist attacks, The Associated Press has learned.

 

The conclusion suggests that the group that launched the most

devastating terror attack on the United States has been able to

regroup along the Afghan-Pakistani border despite nearly six years of

bombings, war and other tactics aimed at crippling it.

 

 

But... but... I thought we were fighting them over there so we don't

have to fight them over here?

 

Are you trying to tell me that everything George W. Bush has done

since 9/11/01, including his entire four-and-a-half-year-long

occupation of Iraq, has been a complete waste of time?

 

Surely this can't be true!

 

Because if that were the case, he would have to be the worst, most

ineffective leader in the history of the world.

 

Curiously, just before that report was leaked Homeland Security chief

Michael Chertoff revealed he had a "gut feeling" that America would be

attacked this summer, although he didn't raise the color-coded terror

threat level. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4958254.html

 

(What the hell happened to that thing anyway? Oh, that's right, they

didn't need it after the 2004 elections.)

 

 

"I believe we are entering a period this summer of increased risk,"

Chertoff told the Chicago Tribune's editorial board in an unusually

blunt and frank assessment of America's terror threat level.

 

"Summertime seems to be appealing to them," he said of al-Qaida.

 

 

Well sure, summertime is appealing to everyone.

 

Why not al Qaeda as well?

 

But pay no attention to Chertoff's gut.

 

The next day...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-security_thursjul12,1,3853309.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

 

 

A White House spokesman said Wednesday there is "no credible

intelligence" of a specific terrorist attack in the U.S. in the near

future, despite Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's comment

that he has a "gut feeling" the nation faces an increased terrorist

danger this summer.

 

 

Which prompted Chertoff to announce that...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070712/us_nm/security_usa_chertoff_dc_2

 

 

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Thursday the

threat to the United States from al Qaeda has not returned to levels

seen just before the September 11 attacks nearly six years ago.

 

 

Following this?

 

If not, I'll break it down for you.

 

The invasion of Iraq has made the world a safer place - we're fighting

them over there so we don't have to fight them over here, and we're

winning, and winning means achieving victory, but we cannot cut and

run because the insurgency is in its last throes and if we waver

they'll come here to fight us like they already are even though we're

not wavering.

 

They're dead enders and Baathists and foreign fighters and

Islamofascists and they're the exact same people who attacked us on

September-The-Eleventh, and we know they're coming because we have a

gut feeling, except there's no credible evidence and they aren't

coming here after all, except they probably are.

 

And if they do, just remember that we warned you.

 

But they won't, because we're winning and the bottom line is that the

world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

 

So bring it on.

 

 

By EarlG

Democratic Underground

http://www.democraticunderground.com/

 

Harry