AL QAEDA STILL (not) A THREAT!

According to our beloved #2 man, Dick Cheney, Al Qaeda is still alive and well and a threat, despite the fact that terrorist activities toward America are down.

But don't let that fool ya, our "VP" says. Here's a clip from an article from Reuters.com over at MyWay.com:

"The enemy that appeared on 9/11 is wounded and off-balance, and on the run -- yet still very active, still seeking recruits, and still trying to find ways to hit us," said Cheney, who reviews intelligence on threats daily.

Yyyyeah, and those Iraqi WMD will show up any day now, too, right?

Why does anyone still believe this guy? He's either lied or has been wrong for years, now.

Remember that report that said the US government was clueless about it's enemies? That report gives us all permission to ignore anything the Bush 43 Admin says about any country because it determined that the USG had gotten Iraq terribly wrong.

Now, do we want to wait for the smoking gun proof that the Bush 43 Admin is wrong about a lot more than Iraq? See, because you know what might happen if you wait for the smoking gun--it could come in the form of a mushroom cloud...

Oh yeah and the other thing is that Al Qaeda really isn't a real threat to us. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Al Qaeda is being treated as though they are the new Soviet Union.

They're few thousand extremists with no real army and no state sponsor and they're going to pose a real threat to a country of several billion?

During the cold war, we still had our rights. There was no Patriot Act to help the USG capture Soviet spies and the Soviets had nukes--they really could have wiped us out. Yet, get some religious fanatics who get lucky when they manage to not get caught (several almost were) on 911 and it's suddenly worse in America than it ever was during the cold war.

Come on--doesn't ANYone remember that famous FDR speech?

"We have nothing to fear, but fear itself."

Yet, here we all are, running scared from a handful of religious extremists.

Good plan, folks...

From Reuters.com and MyWay.com:

Cheney says al Qaeda is still 'very active'

May 2, 6:19 PM (ET)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda is still "very active" recruiting and seeking to attack the United States, although it has been hurt since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday.

"The enemy that appeared on 9/11 is wounded and off-balance, and on the run -- yet still very active, still seeking recruits, and still trying to find ways to hit us," said Cheney, who reviews intelligence on threats daily.

"As months and years pass, they are hoping that our country will grow complacent, and get lazy, and forget our responsibilities," he said in a speech to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia, according to a text released in Washington.

"And it's our job, ladies and gentlemen, to make sure the United States of America never lets down its guard."

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding in the mountainous border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan and has evaded capture since the Sept. 11 attacks. But U.S. forces and their allies have captured or killed other senior members of al Qaeda.

"In a multinational campaign, we continue to make progress in many categories -- financial, legal, military," Cheney said.

"We are dealing with a network that has had cells in countries all over the world -- yet bit by bit, by diplomacy and by force, with our allies and partners, we are acting to shrink the area in which terrorists can operate freely."

Despite efforts to improve security, "America is safer, but that we are not yet safe," Cheney said.

Copyright 2005 Reuters