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Monday, September 25, 2006
What $500 billion buys you these days
Josh Marshall is encouraging everyone to ask that the April National Intelligence Estimate be released. The potentially incendiary document has been partially leaked. It's not good news for the architects of the Iraq war:
A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document.
The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,’’ it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe.
An opening section of the report, “Indicators of the Spread of the Global Jihadist Movement,” cites the Iraq war as a reason for the diffusion of jihad ideology.
Bill Frist characterizes the report differently.
Let's get to the brass tacks of this. As of March, $400 billion had been allocated for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Another $70 billion is under consideration now. We're fast approaching a $500 billion price tag on a war that has cost us tens of thousands of casualties and -= according to our own intelligence analysts -- helped spread the cause we're ostensibly fighting against.
Failure, thy name is Bush.
4 Comments:
all of this asscrap doesnt matter in the elections, cause all the voters care about is fear and hate. gays, minorites, terrorism, religion.
I think people understand about $500 billion being thrown down a hole -- that makes the country less safe.
people dont understand, look at the polls.
http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm
Dems should be hitting this HARD. The Republicans keep winning by turning what should be opponent's strengths into weaknesses. John Kerry still can't believe they were able to (falsely) trash his war record. We should be able to take a Republic strength that is undeserved and do the same to them. We don't seem to be very good at that sort of thing tho.
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