I've been checking the few already-translated documents on file at FMSO,and notice most are just given a quick summation. A lot of the "labels" are wrong/misleading.
(eg: A report that is supposed to be an investigation of al al-Qaeda contact turns out to be a list of spare parts for pickup trucks, etc.)
It's nice they made these available, but they are in no order whatsoever-although they should be. Everything is scrambled together: 1996 followed by 2002 followed by 1997,etc.
The impression I'm getting is that the American people no longer care-one way or the other whether the war was justified. They just want it to end-ASAP.
RE: Your comment.......
"The impression I'm getting is that the American people no longer care-one way or the other whether the war was justified. They just want it to end-ASAP".
Yes, I hear the DBM telling me that is what I think. Then I ask myself -- Is that what I want. The answer is NO! I yell at the TV - you are not speaking for me. Do I want the killing to stop, yes of course!!! Do I place the killing sprees on the heads of the DBM and their kind, much of it I do - they enable the killing cowards to kill!! Bombs in school buses!! Shopping Ctrs!!!! Bombs in airplanes!!!! But this is not just about Iraq and Afghanistan. It never was, ---- but it is/was necessary to establish a secure Iraq.
This should have been controlled or stopped in the nineties
It did not start under clinton but it certainly accelerated and the United States of America was called a Paper Tiger!!! take a look.......
1993 Somalia ( Bin Laden tied to Mogadishu massacre)
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
The cut and run game is over!!! there is no more waiting!!!
Gaffney was on C-SPAN on Monday discussing his article and he is well worth listening to...... or at least read his article.
Frank Gaffney, President, Center for Security Policy,
discusses his column in today (Tuesdays) Washington Times on how voters should elect leaders this fall who are in favor of supporting the war and funding the military, and not ?defeatists.??
30 min.
http://www.c-span.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=Series,WJE&ArchiveDays=30
Sounding Retreat Frank Gaffney
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691773/posts