Posted on 02/02/2004 8:38:48 AM PST by marty60
INTELLIGENCE FAILURE- THE REAL DEMOCRAT LEGACY
The Church Commission, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton resulted it twenty-five years of intelligence mediocracy and ineptitude. We now are in the process of allowing yet another round of attacks on a Republican President trying to protect the United States and it's citizens.
Sadly, the American people may well fall for the same simple-minded logic of retail politics, without consideration of the unintended consequences. The War on Terror actually began with the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. But as with all things Democrat, politics took priority. The dicision to launch a full out attack on the American people(right-wing conspiracy) left the true terror network free to plan and implement numerous murderous attacks on Americans. Even the attack on the Cole killing american sailors was not deemed serious enough to divert the intelligence community to the real source of danger to the United States, AL-Qaida.
The goal of the Left and by definition Democrats of rendering the CIA, FBI and other agencies into elitists think tanks has in large measure been achived. Where was the intelligence on the massive bribes paid by Hussein to various countries and companies? Where was the intelligence that Saudi Arabia is at the heart of Al-qaida funding? Did the Jimmy Carter legacy give us the CIA policy of sending an analyst husband to chit-chat with the heads of suspect countries? We probably should have just sent a tourist and saved an exorbatant consulting fee.
Would some well placed money and low level covert operative found out from the Iraqi "scientist" that money talks in the world of terrorists. Would the twenty-five million spent for Saddams head, been better spent bribing some French or other European friend of Saddam about the true nature of the regime?
Yes these are questions that will probably never be answered with the bureaucratic nightmare our Intelligence community has degenerated into. But the fact that these terrorists were allowed to work openly, without fear of retribution is the most damning of all indictments of our agencies.
When President Bush drove the Taliban and Al-Qaida from the public hold on Afganistan, the CIA should have known that they would look for a new base of operation. To believe that Iran would give them little more than aid and comfort is simple-minded gibberish. To believe that the terror network did not know of Saddams impending doom, if not from one of his sons, than possibly one of his vicious cabinet members is naive. The cast of characters ready to step into the chaos and immediately take control of large segments of the populace in Iraq leads to the conclusion that those plans were already in place. Where else to develop a new base of operations than Iraq. Total access to the Palestinian terrorists. Israel in striking distance. A country with chemical, biological, and nuclear safistication. All the elements a world wide Jihadists like Bin-Laden and his fellow travelers want. President Bush has stopped this with the dedication and sacrifice of our young men and women in the military. To keep us safe, our military is face to face with the enemy in Iraq.
The new Democrat legacy is in the works. The terrorist just need to wait less than a year. Help defeat George W. Bush. Then Iraq becomes the new Afganistan. Not only will they not have to sit in cold dank caves, but they ill have oil, and infrastucture at their disposal. why hijack a plane, Iraqi airlines will do. Kuwait will be easy pickings with the proven lack of will on the part of Democrats to stop them. Israel will not deal with homicide bombers, the missles will do the job. Will the Democrats return to their coddling of the PLO, Hamas, Hezbolla ? I believe the answer is yes. what will the American People have to look forward to with a Democrat in power. More death and destruction? I believe the answer to that question is an unequivical YES.
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