Winning the War on Terror, one spin at a time
It was just a short time ago when we were told that terrorism worldwide was at a 34 year low and that Muammar Qaddafi surrendered in the War on Terror. President Bush's policies were working!
When the State Department first came out with its 2003 worldwide terrorism report, we viewed it with skepticism. The report itself indicated that, even though worldwide terrorism was down, anti-U.S. terrorism was up. It also didn't even include terrorist attacks in Iraq, even though it is the "central front in the War on Terror."
Well, that wasn't the half of it.
The State Department plans to amend the report, and its corrections may show that terrorism hit a 20 year high in 2003 (Yes, that would be "34 year low" to "20 year high" in one correction.) It turns out the State Department stopped counting attacks by November 11, thereby missing the "bombings of two synagogues, a bank and the British Consulate in Turkey that killed 62 and injured more than 700." The State Department blamed the mistake on a printing deadline. (Note: the report came out on April 29.)
And as for our beloved Qaddafi, the NY Times reported yesterday that as he was renouncing terrorism and WMD's, and negotiating the lifting of sanctions in his country, his intelligence leaders were ordering a covert operation to assassinate Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and to destabilize the country.
I don't think we can handle many more such "victories" in the Global War on Terror.
10:58:26 AM 
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