Pseudo-Conservatives and Left-wingers alike will argue with you until they're blue in the face that there is no such thing as Al Qaeda or that they are not a threat to us in any manner (9/11 never happened!!!).
In any case, we appear to have turned the tide on this imaginary enemy. Good news from GWB's top CIA guy.
(from the Washington Post no less!!)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052904116_pf.html
The U.N. said much of the same yesterday. I fall in the Iraq has been too costly camp but if we can stabilize that country before we leave that would be a good thing.
The entire article only provided one gain that was actually measurable.
QuoteSince the start of the year, he said, al-Qaeda's global leadership has lost three senior officers, including two who succumbed "to violence," an apparent reference to Predator strikes that killed terrorist leaders Abu Laith al-Libi and Abu Sulayman al-Jazairi in Pakistan.
Quote from: Lunican on May 30, 2008, 10:42:45 AM
The entire article only provided one gain that was actually measurable.
QuoteSince the start of the year, he said, al-Qaeda's global leadership has lost three senior officers, including two who succumbed "to violence," an apparent reference to Predator strikes that killed terrorist leaders Abu Laith al-Libi and Abu Sulayman al-Jazairi in Pakistan.
I do not blame anyone for being skeptical about these type of claims but Al-Qaeda isn't going to let a census be taken. I thought that the U.N. echoing the statements of the CIA added to my feeling that real progress is being made.(I am referring to a statement from the U.N. I heard on the radio is why no link posted)
haha. good point Jeffrey.