Bush making America safer in the future

“LOL - for your perhaps, MarkO, but that's just because you're so far Left that any rhetoric close to the right side of Center seems "conservative bombast".”

“So, you're saying that I'm a Marksist??”

“ROTFLAMO....good one, lets remember the NSA wiretapping is Foriegn communications...never been covered by the Constitution. Well until the Supremes decided to MAKE law.”

“Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.

Last night, the government shut down the Web site after The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials. A spokesman for the director of national intelligence said access to the site had been suspended “pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing.”

Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency, fearing that the information could help states like Iran develop nuclear arms, had privately protested last week to the American ambassador to the agency, according to European diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity. One diplomat said the agency’s technical experts “were shocked” at the public disclosures.
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The documents, roughly a dozen in number, contain charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building that nuclear experts who have viewed them say go beyond what is available elsewhere on the Internet and in other public forums. For instance, the papers give detailed information on how to build nuclear firing circuits and triggering explosives, as well as the radioactive cores of atom bombs.
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The campaign for the online archive was mounted by conservative publications and politicians, who said that the nation’s spy agencies had failed adequately to analyze the 48,000 boxes of documents seized since the March 2003 invasion. With the public increasingly skeptical about the rationale and conduct of the war, the chairmen of the House and Senate intelligence committees argued that wide analysis and translation of the documents — most of them in Arabic — would reinvigorate the search for clues that Mr. Hussein had resumed his unconventional arms programs in the years before the invasion. American search teams never found such evidence.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03documents.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=1511d6b3da302d4f&hp=&ex=1162530000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin”

“The funniest thing is the NYT ... did you get that? ... the NYT ... is criticizing the release of non-classified information on a website.

Did you get that? ... the NYT! ...

LMAO!!!!!”

“Thanks, Reverend!!”

“MUNICH, Germany (AP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday blamed U.S. policy for inciting other countries to seek nuclear weapons to defend themselves from an "almost uncontained use of military force."

The stinging attack underscored growing tensions between Washington and Moscow.

"Unilateral, illegitimate actions have not solved a single problem, they have become a hotbed of further conflicts," Putin said at the Munich Conference on Security Policy, an annual forum attracting senior officials from around the world.

"One state, the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way."”

“So I guess you agree with your hero.”

“Putin certainly does'nt follow the bouncing ball in the karaoke revisionist song of history.”

“Bush's old buddy Vladimir Vladimirovich has certainly done a number on the free press in Russia.

And, most recently, selling anti-aircraft systems to Tehran... With friends like these, who needs an enema?”

“Funny how the right keeps on wanting to pin naivete about Putin on the left.

Unlike George Bush, I never ever claimed to have lookin into Putin's soul - and I never ever trusted him. His KGB history and what seemed to me like very suspicious bombings in Russia - that seemed staged to rally support around a massive invasion of Chechnya - had me very suspicious of him from the begining. I wondered if Yeltsin hand picked him as a successor as the result of some deal or some pressure from the former KGB.”

“Bottom line is that I don't take Putin's statement at face value. I see it as his attempt to exploit the damage done to the US's reputation under George Bush.”

“Our study shows that the Iraq War has generated a stunning sevenfold increase in the yearly rate of fatal jihadist attacks, amounting to literally hundreds of additional terrorist attacks and thousands of civilian lives lost; even when terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan is excluded, fatal attacks in the rest of the world have increased by more than one-third.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2007/03/iraq_effect_1.html”

“This piece was featured on Washington Journal this morning --- Thanks for the link.”

“I agree Rev...and when we responded to Pearl Harbor and the Philippeans with the bombing of Japan...well we were in for the fight of our life.....”

“Did they make available their list of "Sunni extremist groups affiliated with or sympathetic to the ideology of Al Qaeda"?

I kinda liked this: It was the capture and killing of much of Al Qaeda’s leadership after 9/11 and the breakup of its training camp facilities in Afghanistan--not the war in Iraq--that prevented Al Qaeda from successfully launching attacks on American targets on the scale it did in the years before 9/11.

It was just kind of stuck in a paragraph that started out on a completely different theme (# of Americans killed), and of course was unsupported except for a couple quotes from the terrorists themselves: Osama bin Laden himself refuted President Bush’s argument that Iraq had distracted and diverted Al Qaeda

Yeah, bin Laden would have NO reason to lie about that; i.e. with these two quotes you can see the bias creep in. And Mother Jones is notoriously left wing.

HEY VIOLIN: this is very interesting, but how about being fair minded and post any critiques/refutations or the like as they come about. I mean, you do go for a balanced look at such things, don't you?”