White House: U.S. safer but not yet safe.

[madokie]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060905/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_terrorism

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration proclaimed significant progress in the war on terror Tuesday but said the enemy has adjusted to U.S. defenses and that "America is safer but we are not yet safe."

Releasing an updated counterterrorism strategy in advance of a speech that President Bush was set to give later in the day, the White House said: "The United States and our partners continue to pursue a significantly degraded but still dangerous al-Qaida network."

"Yet the enemy we face today in the war on terror is not the same enemy we faced on Sept. 11," said the 23-page terrorism strategy update. "Our effective counterterrorist efforts in part have forced the terrorists to evolve and modify their ways of doing business."

The updated strategy came in the wake of the release of a new al-Qaida video over the weekend that raised concerns about the possibility of another attack as the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11 approaches. The tape featured an American — believed by the FBI to have attended al-Qaida training camps — calling for his countrymen to convert to Islam

[Waya]

1. Hogwash...............

[Justice Is Comin]

2. And I'm short and bald headed, six foot five with black curly hair.

[ThomWV]

3. We Were Safer On 9/10/01 Than We Are Today

George W.Bush has never done a single thing to improve the safety of any American citizen anywhere anytime.

[madokie]

5. We are a brazillian times more unsafe today than when * was

selected, I think most know that including himself but he doesn't give a rats ass.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Idiotic. And, Impossible!

The word "safer" is the comparative of "safe". So, we CANNOT be safer and not safe! One can only be SAFE-ER, after one is already SAFE! So, this statement is ridiculous, but par for the course of these doublespeaking subsimians.
The Professor

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

7. You know, you can tell Andy Card is gone. He was very good at

coming up with the little "catch phrases" that were subtly ridiculous, but hard to argue with.

Their current batch of sound bite rhetoric displays that idiocy right up front...

"Adapt to win"

"If we leave Iraq too soon , the terrorists will follow us here"

And now..."We're safer, but not safe"

Much easier to de construct than before. Nice job, Professor. :-) MKJ

[DemonFighterLives]

6. I would say- Not safe and for sure "not safer":

With the murderous killing in Iraq, Lebanon, and let's not forget Afghanistan, we have created more enemies than we have extinguished.
With the hackles coming up in Russia, China, Korea, Iran and Syria, I think dubby has played a bad hand. His bluff is going to be called.
:dem:

[madokie]

8. and we are going to be the ones most affected

IMO the only reason China and Russia haven't already done something to stop this madness is the know down deep in their hearts that we the majority, the average joe, are good people who do not in any way support this criminal endeavor called the bush* regime. But I also believe their patience is wearing thin. After all China and Russia had joint military maneuvers just recently, first time in history I might add.

[DemonFighterLives]

10. You and I and a bunch here know that

How come the ones getting paid for our security are so dumbfounded?

It seems so easy to just ship dubby, cheney, rummy and condi and a few dead enders off to the Hague. But No, we suffer in somewhat silence.

Where are the agent Mikes of the world?

:dem:

[genie_weenie]

9. only the Propaganda matters...

You don't need to be a Weatherman to find which way the wind blows...