Why has terrorism INCREASED since DUH-bya took office?

Question

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/10412

"Instead of dealing with the facts and dealing with them in an intelligent fashion, they try to hide their facts from the American public," charged Larry C. Johnson, a former CIA analyst and State Department terrorism expert.

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Answer 1

Let's face it: Osama bin Laden, holed up in his cave somewhere, must be laughing at us. He's calling the shots, and he really doesn't have to lift a finger. Why? George Bush is doing his bidding. His administration has suspended many civil liberties and deftly defied the U.S. Constitution. Junked the Geneva Convention. Tortured prisoners. Oversaw criminal acts at Abu Ghraib. Ignored due process at Guantanamo. Engaged in domestic spying without court supervision. Flushed billions down the toilet in Iraq. Weakened our military readiness. Set much of the world against us. The Middle East is now ablaze in terrorism. At home, we live constantly in "elevated fear" levels (whether color coded or not). Our internal politics have become poisonously divided, not united. Osama bin Laden is playing George Bush like a cheap fiddle. Mostly, he has let the terrorists fundamentally alter our freedoms…since he dwells upon and exploits the very fears that the terrorists want to insinuate into our lives.

Answer 2

1) Bush doesn't care about domestic terrorism, only terrorism where foreigners attack us.

2) Bush's bull in the china shop foreign policy keeps pissing people off--so more people support and join the terrorists.

3) The only time I've seen Bush make a response to any issue in office, he would do nothing unless he could use current events as an excuse to push a big-business agenda. The worst example I saw was when Katrina hit--the first thing he did was an executive order to eliminate prevailing wage laws for the construction workers who would rebuild it. Other examples include not spending any money on terrorism prevention and response, except when it meant buying equipment for airports and armies, or creating a new Department to order more stuff from these companies, while remaining just as disorganized and unprepared as we were before 9-11. More needs to be done on relief and response. Our first response to 9-11 should not have been a law allowing more wiretaps and internet monitoring, it should have been a review of our security and vulnerabilities.

Answer 3

F E A R - that's how they tactilessly get people to vote republican, that's how we are at war with no real consent, that's how our nation as a whole isnt really a nation anymore, and we are probably going to have another civil war here in America....I mean, if you rednecks and coorporate assholes want the South......TAKE IT, we don't need your ignorant, greedy pricks running loose and breeding everytime you want a paycheck for other people's deaths around here....You would shamelessly kick your fellow man down the stairs or shoot him in the back because "peace" of the whole world, and "piece" of the whole world mean the same f*ing thing to you cowards! Let the terrorists come here, I am not afraid to die fighting, but to go somewhere else and try to solve someone else's problems without fixing our own is retarded....G R O W U P

Answer 4

Because Islamofascists, sponsored by Iran and Syria, are waging war on freedom. This has absolutely nothing to do with President Bush.

Let me remind you that 9/11 was years in the making. Let me also remind you of the 1st World Trade Center attack, or the attack on the Cole, or other attacks on U.S. interests during the Clinton administration. How soon we forget! It would have been much easier to handle Islamofascism during the Clinton's administration, but he has avoided conflicts, and risked our security. Look where we are now!

Although I don't agree with everything President Bush has done, this war against Islamofascism has to be waged, and I am glad that President Bush had the courage to tackle it head on.

Answer 5

Uhh.. probably because he started an illegal war (according to the UN and the rest of the world) without reason, destroyed a country in the process, and destabilized an area which was formerly stable. Bush was shown to be a liar after no WMD were ever found in Iraq, and White House memos were produced to show this was widely known even as Bush made this the primary reason to invade Iraq. In addition, Iraq has never been shown to have links to terrorists, and believe me, the US government has left no stone unturned trying to find such evidence.

This action has created a whole new generation of people who hate the USA, even among our former allies such as those in the EU. It doesn't help either that the war we started was against a culture whose religion teaches them to kill the enemy for a direct passage to allah (their heaven), and now these people feel they have nothing to lose, as their country is decimated and they have religion and the rest of the world on their side. We are now seen in the world as the aggressor.

Bush's term as President has been a complete disaster unparalleled in the history of the USA. We will be a much weaker country for an indefinite length of time, as we struggle to pay off the debt and the negative relations with the rest of the world we have suffered as a result. Our economy in the USA has suffered and will continue to suffer for decades due to the policies (contemptuous disregard for the US Constitution and our right to privacy, tax cuts for the rich, greatly increased corporate tax cuts and power, reduced environmental laws for clean air) and the deficit spending of this administration. I feel really sorry for the generation growing up now, since you will be lucky to even put food on your table, thanks to GWB.

Answer 6

For the same reason it increased after Clinton took office, after GHW Bush took office, and after Ronald Reagan took office.

It's a growing problem around the world, and no one is taking the steps to solve it, which would be to put the radical Islamist schools and leaders out of business.

Oh, and by the way, using stupid name tricks doesn't increase the likelihood of getting reasonable answers to anything anywhere.

Answer 7

Because he is one of the elitists backing and financing the terrorists. If there are no more attacks, we start to relax and without our fear, how will he push through retina scanners and other control devices to keep us in line like the cattle he thinks we are? When there is a terror attack, he gets to come on tv and say somthing along the lines of, "See, I told ya. We're doing thte right thing by fighting terror."

Answer 8

Let's see if I can make it perfectly clear:

1 - You're in a war.
2 - You increase your troop strength in order to prosecute the war more vigorously.
3 - The enemy increases his troop strength in response and steps up his activities in a bid to win the war.

Shocking, just shocking, isn't it?!?

What is it you morons DO NOT GET about the fact that we are in a war? DENIAL will not work, children!!!

Answer 9

because the jerk Clinton did nothing about it in his 8 years in office so Bush picked up the mess...remember the the U.S.S. Cole

Answer 10

Beacause every policy he has made has supported the terrorists....he has done exactly what he should not have done and refuses to listen to reason.....