White House claims progress in war on terror

[Roon]

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.”
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14678251/

[C_U_L8R]

1. They just can't say what the progress is....

must be a big state secret or something :-)

[radfringe]

5. snark..snark

if they told us exactly what the progress was then the terrorists would know and it would embolden them to follow us home...

[marmar]

2. "We're safe, but...you still need to be scared....

And if the Republican poll numbers drop, we won't be safe."

Gawd I hate these people.

[Lerkfish]

3. and I"m claiming myself the King of Sweden! doesn't make it true.

[ramapo]

4. What do you expect?

The propaganda machine has to promote this message. They're not going to say that the war is a joke, best defined by our inability to bring water and shampoo on board commercial aircraft.

[Double T]

6. bushco has done a GREAT JOB of creating the enemy.........

and making their numbers much greater. And HE has the audacity to call this 'progress in the war on terror'??? How can ANYBODY believe THIS STUFF???