Sherlock Lives! Scotland Yard Notices Terror Trend

Although the US and Britain have together waged a six-year long "war on terror," the head of Scotland Yard's counterterrorism command has noticed that al-Qaida is still capable of doing devastating attacks.

From early in the war, many in the military and the government noted that invasion and aggression in Iraq actually helped the terrorist network gain strength ... many except those in the White House and 10 Downing Street, that is.

"Absolutely we're winning. Al-Qaida is on the run," Pres. Bush declared in Oct. 2006.

Of course, just leave it to some Democrat like Joe Biden to say something like, "Anybody who thinks we're winning these wars is just mistaken," on Hardballs with Tim Russert in Sept. 2006.

Of course, you don't have to be Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard to come to the same conclusion. How about Jon Basil Utley in his essay, " 36 Ways the US Is Losing the War on Terror?" OK -- so it IS a liberal blog ... but he points out such logical items as:

#1 -- "... turning most of the world against us ... "
#4 -- " America's government is slowly being bankrupted." (Although I'm not sure how Utley defines "slowly."
#14 -- "The American military is stretched thin."
#17 -- American intelligence is discredited for the foreseeable future.
# 35 -- We have lost freedoms under the PATRIOT Act

And last but certainly not least:

#36 -- America's loss of power and reputation, and the financial havoc created by funding this war will have repercussions for a long, long time.

Giuliani's New 9/11

It's Halloween again, ... er, I mean, election time again -- and Rudy Giuliani is leading the Conservative Scare-Off by being the first (this week) to say that if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001.

Ignorant and gullible potential voters at a town hall meeting during a campaign stop at New England College in Henniker, N.H. cheered the former New York mayor with the spotty reputation. The rest of the audience groaned and walked out on such nonsense, unable to believe that anyone besides the current office holders would try such a ridiculous slogan.
But Rudy offered hope that if a Republican is elected (meaning him), terrorist attacks can be anticipated and stopped.

Giuliani voiced concern that Democrats might "cut back" on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance and interrogation -- and that would be a BAD thing.

“The Democrats do not understand the full nature and scope of the terrorist war against us,” Rudy said. “This war ends when they stop coming here to kill us!” Although his lips were moving, some in the audience swore the voice coming out sounded like Karl Rove's.

Giuliani said terrorists “hate us and not because of anything bad we have done; it has nothing to do with Israel and Palestine. They hate us for the freedoms we have and the freedoms we want to share with the world.”

Strangely enough, this claim ran counter to one made by William Blum, who is on record as saying, " ... it's not America the terrorists hate; it's American foreign policy. It's what the United States has done to the world in the past half century -- all the violence, the bombings, the depleted uranium, the cluster bombs, the assassinations, the promotion of torture, the overthrow of governments, and more."

But perhaps he got that idea from The Christian Science Monitor the week after Pres. Bush's Post-9/11 "They hate our freedoms" speech when that far-from-liberal-newspaper wrote: ... "the injustice done to the Palestinians, the cruelty of continued sanctions against Iraq, the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia, the repressive and corrupt nature of US-backed Gulf governments ... "

So, obviously Giuliani with the President that the fewer freedoms we have, the safer we are. So to paraphrase Patrick Henry --"Give up your liberty or you're going to die!"