you are igorant
have we had another attack on U.S. soil since 9/11?
If going into iraq solved nothing more than getting saddam and his sons out of there- then so be it
if u disagree- perhaps you could ask some of Saddams victims that had their tongues cut out or were forced into nitric acid chambers?
The National Intelligence Estimate, the NIE, which is an aggregate of all United States Intelligence states that we are in more danger NOW and less safe NOW than ever which is due to the blowback of failed Iraqi and foreign policies. Therefore your supposition that Bush kept us safe is meaningless and not factual in nature.
You Read It Hear First: U.S. Less Safe from TerrorismSeptember 25, 2006
Newspaper reports over the weekend confirmed what the Center for American Progress and Foreign Policy magazine first concluded three months ago: Experts on national security and terrorism believe that America is less safe from terrorist assault than it was five years ago. This comes as the Democratic Policy Committee holds hearings today to discuss the failed planning and conduct of operations in Iraq with retired Major Generals John R.S. Batiste and Paul D. Eaton of the U.S. Army, and retired Colonel Thomas X. Hammes of the U.S. Marine Corps.
The press reports said that the Bush administration's new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq concluded that America faces greater danger of terrorist attacks precisely because of the invasion of Iraq and its bloody aftermath. The NIE analysis, prepared in April, is the consensus conclusion of 16 U.S. government intelligence agencies.
This is essentially the same consensus conclusion that CAP and Foreign Policy discovered when we did our own independent polling at about the same time, asking over 100 of America's most esteemed terrorism and national security experts for their assessment of the war against terrorist networks. This survey, titled The Terrorism Index, mined the highest echelons of the U.S. national security establishment across the ideological spectrum for their insights on the war on terrorism.
The result, we know today, shows a surprising consensus among the experts inside and outside of the U.S. government about terrorism and U.S. national security. In our survey, a vast majority think that the world today is more dangerous for the American people. So, too, does the NIE. Over half of the experts we polled list Islamic animosity and the Iraq war as the main reasons why the world is becoming more dangerous. That's also the consensus conclusion of the NIE.
In our survey, fewer than two in 10 believe the United States is winning the war on terror. More than eight in 10 believe we are likely to face a terrorist attack on the scale of September 11 within the next 10 years. These experts put nuclear weapons and materials as the top threat, followed closely by weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as a whole and then terrorism. Only four percent rank Iran as the greatest threat.
The survey's conclusions aid our understanding of these threats, as well as the current capabilities and missteps of the U.S. government in fighting terrorism.
For more information on the survey, please see the following links:
Executive Summary and Methodology with Complete Terrorism Survey Results
The Terrorism Index: view report text on Center for American Progress site
The Terrorism Index: view report text on Foreign Policy magazine site
