Jul 25 2007
Some People Cannot Connect Dots
Everyone has their limitations. For the liberal Surrendercrats and SurrenderMedia they cannot connect dots when they are mapped out in front of them with numbers to show the way. These people are big picture-challenged. It is stunning how inept they are at being able to see clear indicators of trends. Probably why the succeed so well in the 24 hour news cycle world – that is their event horizon. For example, Bush has tied al-Qaeda in Iraq to world-wide terrorism, and there are some people out there who just don’t get it:
President Bush made provocative new assertions Tuesday about Al Qaeda’s role in Iraq, using recently declassified information to make his case that the global battle with the terrorism network — and Americans’ safety at home — hinges on keeping U.S. troops there to fight.
Bush’s comments were met with skepticism by some terrorism experts and former U.S. intelligence officials, who said the president exaggerated or even misrepresented the facts in Iraq.
Amazing. We have gasoline and propane car bombs found in London to be detonated from Australia all linked to Iraqis, but there is no Iraq connection? Connect the dots.
We have al-Qaeda establishing cells in Jordan to spread terror to that nation.
Officials close to the investigation told The Associated Press that several terror suspects arrested in Jordan last month have confessed the plots were hatched by Jordanian militant Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, thought to be a close associate of al-Qaeda boss Osama bin Laden.
Zarqawi was the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq killed last year in Baquba, Diyala Province, Iraq. Connect the dots.
We have al-Qaeda sending their chief bomb maker from Baghdad to Jordan to spread their terror. Connect the dots.
We have seen story after story that terrorists are training in Iraq so as to build cells for attacks around the world. Here is one:
Interior Minister Bayan Jabur told ABC News in an exclusive interview that his police forces have developed information that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s group, al Qaeda in Iraq, plans to carry out terror operations against U.S. citizens or the U.S. Embassy in Yemen and against an unspecified target in Egypt.
Here is another, and another, and another. Geez, after all this bell ringing that Iraq is a training ground for al-Qaeda now these people say ‘never mind’? No wonder the left has a well earned reputation for being abysmal on national defense. They need a 9-11 sized wake up call before they finally get the picture. The proverbial 2×4 attention grabber.
If you murder people in the name of your God, you are a threat to all civilized people. If you are Sunni or Shea, under direct control of bin Laden, or Iran, or a want to be, killing in the name of any God for the purpose of controlling others, is a threat to civilization as we know it. Where ever these people are we must have plans to confront them in any way that will bring results. Why would we know that they are in Iraq and leave them there is beyond reason. I just don’t get it!
We have gathered unbelievable intelligence from the Iraqi battle field, why would we want to be blinded again?
You’re absolutely right Kathie why don’t some of the presidential wannabees pick this up and carry the ball. Are they too scared or inarticulate to make this point to the American people? I’m not speaking of the democrats we know where they stand.
I think these people understand, they are just being stupid because it works for them politically. For instance, until Osama was allowed to set up housekeeping in Afghanistan we never heard much about that country. Zarqawi was an Osama wannabe. We are supposed to believe that poor little Saddam might be able to kill hundreds of thousands of his own people and even attempt to kill a president, but he was helpless to deal with Zarqawi and had no association with him. As far as that is concerned the Taliban did not plan 9/11, but they knew who and what Osama and Alqaida were. And Saddam knew the same thing about people like Zarqawi. Now the organization he brought there from Afghanistan is still there.
These people are fellow travellers, we all know that, we can not run away from Iraq and then go to Afghanistan and fight them there. The truth is if we leave Iraq there is no reason to believe that it will not become a haven for terrorists from all over the world the same way Afghanistan did.
And you know something? Considering the fact that these socalled intel experts and the Clinton administration did absolutely nothing to stop the growth of Islamic extremism for the years leading up to 9/11 and were apparently oblivious to it, I really don’t put much stock in there second guessing Bush now.
Besides I hear the Democrats and other anti war factions are saying we should leave enough men behind to fight AlQaida, so it seems even they believe they are there.
What we have here is AQ getting their butt kicked and their enablers of old time Bathists and such doing pool time in Syria plotting their next moves.
The remaining question is will we see more missiles and other stuff showing up in Iraq from Iran to counter the success?
How man chips are they willing to push into the pot on a bet they are not likely to win?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/24/AR2007072402263_pf.html
Merlin and terrye, what do you think?
Lurker
There becomes a point that if the polls are that much against you a couple of choices exist.
Bend to the polls.
Keep the faith.
I really don’t think there is much question of which is going on here.
Could make GWB the first real non lame duck, since he can fire back with both barrels and not suffer any poll damage.
lurker:
That is exactly why I got so annoyed with the right over the immigration nonsense. We are in a war and here they are attacking Bush and calling him Jorge and accusing him of trying to give the southwest back to Mexico. Honest to God some of those people just went nuts, and for what? For Bush doing and saying what he has always said on the subject.
He was in an impossible position and he was put there by his own party who turn right around and complain about poll numbers. Meanwhile they have already moved on and are looking for the next thing to have a hissy fit about no doubt. The immigration issue will not be solved by those people because they don’t want it solved, they would rather beat presidents over the head with it than fix it.
At the same time, I really don’t think Bush’s numbers are changing as much as some people say, not this late in his term. At this point I take any and all polls with a grain of salt. The demographics might be out of whack as well.
But on the other hand we have a poll I saw mentioned over at Just One Minute showing more support for the war than has been seen in some time. So there you go.
This is from that link:
The Times offers a real head-scratcher:
Support for Initial Invasion Has Risen, Poll Shows
Americans’ support for the initial invasion of Iraq has risen somewhat as the White House has continued to ask the public to reserve judgment about the war until at least the fall. In a New York Times/CBS News poll conducted over the weekend, 42 percent of Americans said that looking back, taking military action in Iraq was the right thing to do, while 51 percent said the United States should have stayed out of Iraq.
But two-thirds of those polled said the United States should reduce its forces in Iraq, or remove them altogether. Support for the invasion had been at an all-time low in May, when only 35 percent of Americans said the invasion of Iraq was the right thing and 61 percent said the United States should have stayed out. The latest poll made clear that a two-thirds majority of Americans continue to say the war is going badly.
However, the number of people who say the war is going “very badly†has fallen from 45 percent earlier in July to a current reading of 35 percent, and of those who say it is going well, 29 percent now describe it as “somewhat well†compared with 23 percent just last week.