You probably knew a State Department report show terror attacks increasing under Bush, but did you know?

Question

Bush tried to use this same yearly report in 2003 to try and say his approach was winning the war on terror?

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. government restated its 2003 accounting of terrorist attacks Tuesday, reporting a sharp increase in the number of significant attacks and more than doubling its initial count of those killed.

Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman of California has suggested the numbers were being "manipulated" to serve the Bush administration's political interests.

The State Department eventually conceded that the original report failed to include a number of deadly attacks in the latter part of 2003, including a car bomb that exploded in a housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and a series of attacks in Istanbul, Turkey, all of which took place in November.

"For the past two weeks now, we have had a major effort under way within the State Department to get to the bottom of the data error and determine what corrections were appropriate and to make those corrections so we could show those corrections to the American people," Powell said Tuesday.

Powell previously blamed the erroneous conclusions on mistakes, not political pressure.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/22/powell.terror/

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Terror attacks worldwide rose 25 percent in ’06
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18399660/

Nitro,

The question that matters is how many Americans have died from terrorism.

By the way, zero islamic terrorist attacks under Clinton after the first WTC attack. That's 8 years minus 6 weeks of no islamic terror attacks on U.S. soil under Clinton.

Bush can never beat that record and 911 happend almost nine months into his term.

Answer 1

How many of those terrorist attacks were occuring in Afghanistan and Iraq, where we are involved in the conflict there.

What are the stats for the rest of the world after subtracting those two countries? I don' t know, but I bet it is down.

Clinton kept us terrorist attack free after WTC 1. I guess you don't count the USS Cole then, huh?

If Bush keeps us free of attacks for the rest of his term, and then we aren't attacked in the first 8 months of the next president's term, Bush will in fact beat the Clinton record you boasted about.

Answer 2

Well did you know your same report showed that "increase" in attacks were smaller in scale and mainly consisted of places like Iraq, Afganistan, Somalia, and other major areas of contention around the world.

Answer 3

yeah but how many have been in the United States?? That is the question that matters....

Answer 4

You are right on Buddy thanks,