Anyway, here's the obligitory clip from the article from AP.org and MyWay.com:
Speaking with one voice, President Bush's top intelligence and military officials said terrorists are regrouping for possible new strikes against the United States.
The best course, the Cabinet officials said, was for Congress to approve the president's military and anti-terror budget.
Jesus H, man--who can't see through this crap?? Check out this next bit though:
Offering few specifics on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned that the government could reasonably predict attacks would come from terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and other means.
New CIA Director Porter Goss said the Iraq war was giving terrorists experience and contacts.
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Do you think maybe the Iraq war was a BAD IDEA, then???
Here's just a bit more from the article:
The Pentagon chief said the $419 billion defense package for 2006 sets an ambitious course to "continue prosecuting the war and to attack its ideological underpinnings."
This is such a scam and so many people out there are buying it.
Bush is good! Bush is great! Bush is lying to our face!
OK, so I'm not a poet. Big deal... Bush and Co are still lying about the threat from Al Qaeda.
Read all of the article I quoted above and make up your own mind.From AP.org and MyWay.com:
Officials Warn of Future Terror Attacks
Feb 16, 5:15 PM (ET)
By KATHERINE SHRADER
WASHINGTON (AP) - Speaking with one voice, President Bush's top intelligence and military officials said terrorists are regrouping for possible new strikes against the United States.
The best course, the Cabinet officials said, was for Congress to approve the president's military and anti-terror budget.
Offering few specifics on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned that the government could reasonably predict attacks would come from terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and other means.
New CIA Director Porter Goss said the Iraq war was giving terrorists experience and contacts.
The Pentagon chief said the $419 billion defense package for 2006 sets an ambitious course to "continue prosecuting the war and to attack its ideological underpinnings."
Yet the Republican-controlled Congress may exercise its considerable authority over federal spending and reject White House requests to simply sign the checks.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., the new chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said lawmakers were questioning billions in foreign aid and State Department spending that Bush requested in an emergency bill this week.
DeLay, R-Texas, said some of Bush's foreign aid proposals "probably do not qualify" for the expedited treatment he's seeking.
The current congressional debate over how to allocate billions of dollars on initiatives aimed at spreading peace and ensuring security follows three years of massive spending in response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Senior administration officials appearing at a series of congressional hearings Wednesday described a Muslim extremist threat that's become more diffuse, encompassing al-Qaida and like-minded associates.
Goss said al-Qaida remains intent on circumventing U.S. security measures and attacking the United States.
"It may be only a matter of time before al-Qaida or other groups attempt to use chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons," Goss said at the Senate Intelligence Committee's annual hearing on threats.
In his first testimony as CIA chief, Goss said the Iraq conflict has become a cause for extremists.
"Those jihadists who survive will leave Iraq experienced in and focused on acts of urban terrorism. They represent a potential pool of contacts to build transnational terrorist cells, groups and networks," Goss said.
Even as terrorism remained at the forefront, senior diplomatic and intelligence officials outlined a number of countries that pose conventional diplomatic, military and intelligence problems to the United States.
Goss said North Korea continues to "develop, produce, deploy and sell ballistic missiles of increasing range and sophistication." He said the secretive regime could "at any time" resume flight testing of a long-range missile capable of reaching the United States with a nuclear payload.
Iran, too, is further improving its Shahab-3 long-range ballistic missile, which has a range of more than 800 miles, Goss said.
In written testimony, Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said he believes Iran will continue its support for terrorism and aid for insurgents in Iraq. "Iran's long-term goal is to see the U.S. leave Iraq and the region," he said.
Speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice blamed Syria for having undermined stability in neighboring Lebanon. On Monday, a massive car bomb explosion in downtown Beirut killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
"The Syrians (have) a special responsibility for the kind of destabilization that happened there, that this sort of thing could happen," said Rice, who also blamed Syria for contributing to the insurgency in Iraq and endangering U.S. forces.
Rice laid out a menu of spending initiatives, including $658 million for a new embassy compound in Baghdad, $1.2 billion for U.S. obligations to international organizations and $5.8 billion in assistance to U.S. partners in the war on terror.
Grim at times, the appraisals on threats to the United States indicated the second Bush term will remain fraught with warnings, but often short on specifics shared with the public.
During the fiercely contested presidential campaign last year, the Bush-Cheney team often warned vaguely of terror threats.
Last September, Vice President Dick Cheney said that if voters made the "wrong choice" on Election Day and chose Democratic Sen. John Kerry, the nation could face another terrorist attack.
Still, officials attempted to balance alarm with caution Wednesday. Rumsfeld noted U.S. successes in building a 90-nation anti-terror coalition, putting a squeeze on terror financing and eliminating two-thirds of al-Qaida's leadership.
But "it isn't over. It's going to take a while," Rumsfeld said. "It is a very serious business we're in."
Copyright 2005 Associated Press
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