Regurgitation

I posted this up on Saturday, but I think it needs to get a fresh new spin from the progressive blogosphere to get it into the mainstream media (and a B-level blogboy sure that that power he says with his eyes rolling).

The Bush Administration has frequently proclaimed they are "winning" the war on terror because of their interventionist (i.e. perpetual) war ideas.

However, this story demonstrates that not only have we had a wrongheaded, poorly planned, and fiscally disastrous war thrust upon us, but the so-called 'War on Terror' has done nothing to curb it, but rather has acted like gasoline on the fire.

The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered.

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Last year, the number of incidents in 2003 was undercounted, forcing a revision of the report, "Patterns of Global Terrorism."

But other current and former officials charged that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's office ordered "Patterns of Global Terrorism" eliminated several weeks ago because the 2004 statistics raised disturbing questions about the Bush's administration's frequent claims of progress in the war against terrorism.

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According to Johnson and U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the issue, statistics that the National Counterterrorism Center provided to the State Department reported 625 "significant" terrorist attacks in 2004.

That compared with 175 such incidents in 2003, the highest number in two decades.

The statistics didn't include attacks on American troops in Iraq, which President Bush as recently as Tuesday called "a central front in the war on terror."

The intelligence officials requested anonymity because the information is classified and because, they said, they feared White House retribution. Johnson declined to say how he obtained the figures.

There could not be clearer evidence of the complete failure of the Bush Administration's policy; nor in their attempt to repress and end such reports a clearer indication of their non-demoncratic and deceitful nature.

And the fact that I have not heard thing-one about this in the mainstream press a greater indictment of their complicity with them.