67 times more terrorist incidents were reported by the State Department in 2006 than in 2003. The question is have they changed their definitions?

Number of worldwide terrorist incidents in 2003:

208

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2003/33777.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...04Jun22_2.html

Number of worldwide terrorist incidents in 2006:

14,000

About half are in Iraq, over 700 in Afghanistan and over 6,000 in other places:

The report says 6,600, or 45 percent, of the attacks took place in Iraq, killing about 13,000 people, or 65 percent of the worldwide total of terrorist-related deaths in 2006. Kidnappings by terrorists soared 300 percent in Iraq over 2005.

Afghanistan had 749 strikes in 2006, a 50-percent rise from 2005 when 491 attacks were tallied, according to the report.

However, it also details a surge in Africa, where 65 percent more attacks, 420 compared to 253 in 2005, were counted last year, largely due to turmoil in or near Sudan, including Darfur, and Nigeria where oil facilities and workers have been targeted.

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2006/82739.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18399660/

That's 67 times more attacks around the world since we first invaded Iraq.

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But they have purple fingers, so it's fine.

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Presidente' George Bush makes a statement about the war on terror:

"We're making progress....this is hard work....and we're making progress. You're just not hearin bout all the good things that are going on....this is hard, hard, hard work and I don't think the public realizes just how much work this is....but were making progress and the surge is gonna roll them up faster then a texas governor can steal land using eminent domaine...I worked hard on that and I am working hard on this....and that hard work is bringin progress."

George Bush making the world safer for you and me.

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roger waters

of incredible progress we are making in Iraq!!

This must be the surge he wanted!!

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your post is irrelevent.

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And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

Ids this supposed to support your guys ideals of surrender and appesment?

If so you failed miserably. All you did was prove the enemy is global in nature.... means what he says... and that surrendering to him in Iraq will not do anything more then give him Iraq.







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I also love the idea that you attribute the global acts of the same Terorist in Iraq to the invasion of Iraq. As if they wouldn't be fighting anyway.

The only difference that would exist without Iraq would be you posting this same thing but attirbuting it to Afghanistan.

And just how many of those are on American Soil????


Yeah, that's what I thought.....

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Since there has only been two international terrorist attacks in all the history of the USA, and Clinton protected us for 8 years after the first one, then what is your point? Do you really think that 6 years without an attack proves some great success?

Especially while the measurements all point to an INCREASED risk, like a surge in the number of attacks worldwide, an increase in the number of members of Al Qeada or the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that just reported that the consensus of the US intelligence community is that the war in Iraq has increased the risk of terrorism.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...orintel24.html

Do you have a logical argument based upon facts, or just a meaningless sound bite?

Yeah, that is what I thought.....

Hard-Driver,
You also never proved Iraq was increasing terrorists attacks
around the world. So likewise show me a poll where they asked
terrorists what made them decide to become a terrorist???

Your ideological idea is weak in deed.

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