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Frances Townsend Says U.S. Has "Constrained" Al Qaeda; Pakistan Calls Report Unsubstantiated

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by wogerwabbit July 18, 2007 11:45 PM EDT
Once again, another political hack in a position she is totally unqualified to occupy spews the party line. How the hell can we win a war when the highest levels of our government can't even identify the enemy correctly. When this all shakes out and the truth is known (and it will eventually be known), we should execute these traitors as a lesson for future American governments not to sacrifice our military on the political alter.
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by SIDNEYWILLIAMSMD July 18, 2007 11:29 PM EDT
Those that do not wish to believe in Al Qaeda's threat to America are so eaten up with political animosity that should a terrorist blow up their family, they would swear it was the Republican National Committee, not Al Qaeda doing it. Absolutely incredible. Hope the barbarians do not attack anytime soon on American soil. But remember they started this war, with the first battles in NY, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC. Now they were kicked out of their Afganistan hideout, and have regrouped in Iraq and Pakistan, Somalia, and elsewhere. So many assh@les and so little time to take care of them. Even the Ethiopian Army and the Lebanese Armies are getting in on the kill. Will take some time, maybe years to subdue this movement.
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by nyckate July 18, 2007 11:29 PM EDT
JetRanger7 -- Rumor has it Townsend is on 'short list' to replace Alberto Gonzales if he has to go -- she's out here now selling her soul to be AG.
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by ghostcommand July 18, 2007 11:16 PM EDT
How the Gop/Bush Fear Machine works--First, Bush gives a speech on terrorism which now mentions our children, Condi Rice adds her supporting two cents worth, some Generals chime in, Chertoff adds his "gut feeling" we will be attacked this summer, an old updated Bin Laden video appears at just the right moment, The National Intelligence estimate in part helps support the message, Frances Townsend of Homeland Security chirps,the lockstep, rubber stamping supporters in the House and Senate repeat the message, and the right wing brown shirt press carries the message to every public nook and cranny in the USA. Have these people no shame? The Big Lie does not build anything--The Big Lie destroys everything.
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by jetranger7 July 18, 2007 11:11 PM EDT
OK, This Fran Townsend is a Bush Loyalist to the Hilt ! As I remember a News Report back in 2002, she was with Bush most of the Time when he was running for president on the campaign trail, and traveled with him everywhere he went back in 2000. She is extremely Loyal to Bush, and has been a friend of the Bush Family for many years according to the report, but the report also stated she lacks Qualifications for the position she holds now too !The report also showed her, Being Bushs Cheerleader at a news conference by yelling and chanting and shes the one who gets everybody clapping, everytime Bushs lips move. As I remember it right, there was Discussion that it was her, in 2003, that came up with the Banner on board that Aircraft carrier that read "Mission-Accomploshied". Shes nothing more than a Bush Cheerleader, and a mouth piece for the Corrupt-Fraudulent Republican Cabool. Shes as Dangerous as Cheney is. She contridicts her own words a lot, later when asked. To think that Sean Hannity of "Faux" News believes everything she says too, should tell you something, of course Hannity is a Big Joke and Disgrace to Cable news networks anyway !This Country is in Trouble if Fran Townsend is the White House Security Advisor, and Advisor to Bush ! Whats her Credibility, What makes her so Unique and Super Qualified ? Has any news investigators really checked her credentials, or was she just givin the job, because she was a Bush Cheerrleader during his Campaign for President back in 2000!
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by nyckate July 18, 2007 10:52 PM EDT
Bush Family Motto:

Lie, lie again, when caught lie some more - then spin the lies and repeat them often enough so that the morons who voted for you chant it like a mantra.

It worked didn't?

Bush Family doesn't care about America - they care about the Bush Family Trust.
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by gkc99 July 18, 2007 10:50 PM EDT
Curious how the Bushit admin is always fear mongering about another attack but has done not a single thing to secure our borders.

Muslim immigration is at an all time high, on student visas, tourist visas, etc., but Bushit does nothing.

Only 1% of the cargo entering the US is inspected, and Bushit tries to turn over control of our ports to Muslims.

It's almost like Bushit WANTS another attack--could it be? One fascist uses other fascists to advance fascist goals?
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by nyckate July 18, 2007 10:49 PM EDT
Latest NIE report:

"The United States currently is in a heightened threat environment," especially from al Qaeda.


CONCLCUSION: BUSH FAILED AMERICA - AGAIN
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by name_verify July 18, 2007 10:19 PM EDT
DNC News Update

Pelosi pajama party fails to deliver milk and cookies.

Bill's surge all over Monica's face.

Shock and awe. Shock and awe. Shock and awe.
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by skyk-2009 July 18, 2007 10:17 PM EDT
Folks in the area I grew up in IF your enemy is gaining in strenght while you are supposedly fighting them, then you are LOSING!! I don't buy into any spin one way or the other on this... it's just plain LOSING!!
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by seven-pesos July 18, 2007 10:15 PM EDT
bush advisor defends failed terror policy.

ha,ha,ha.

the south defends bush.

murderous, white trash, redneck, phony christian, war making slave states of america still love bush.

that's the south for you, folks!
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by rharrin1 July 18, 2007 10:06 PM EDT
The findings focused most heavily on Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, which was judged to remain the most serious threat to the United States.

But our decider said he doesn't think about bin laden he's not concerned.

that pose a "persistent and evolving threat" to the country over the next three years.

How did they come up with three years why not two or four years?

Make no mistake, they're determined to figure out a way," said Frances Fragos Townsend. "So we work every day to make sure that doesn't happen."

Sure they got our borders fixed.
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by ramos937 July 18, 2007 9:50 PM EDT
Ms. Townsend must have just arrived from another planet. Her statements are very worthy of Rumsfield, Wolferzic(?), Cheney and Rice. From her statements, one has to wonder if she actually read the report. I have. Despite qualifications, the report basically says that the terriorists are making every effort to attack the USA. And they plan to succeed. They have proven that they already have the means to do so.

You know, our people have performed very well in preventing attacks on US soil and deserve every credit. But as Mike Cheroff said one, "we can prevent 100 attacks, but let one happen and we would have failed". He is right. We will be attacked, the only thing is that we do not know where, when and the method of attack. I very much hope somebody has done a lot of planning to handle the situation after it happens.
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by tuckerndfw July 18, 2007 9:48 PM EDT
Yessir, buddy, it requires years of planning, training and coordination to rent a truck and pack it with 55 gallon drums of chlorine, gasoline or nearly any other commonly available, potentially deadly substance, and detonate it in a crowded area.

Yep, that takes lots of planning and coordination.

If anyone is still buying into Bush administration's bullsh*t, he should be confined due to his demonstrated lack of intelligence.
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by tuckerndfw July 18, 2007 9:45 PM EDT
I can think of a way.

Rent a truck, pack it with 55 gallon drums of gasoline, drive it down 5th Avenue in NYC at high noon (or any other comparable street in any American city) and detonate it.

That would be very spectacular. I suppose "al qaida" can't think of something that complicated.

The Bush administration tells more lies than they do anything else.

The "war on terror" is not preventing terrorist attacks, and, the Bush administration is keeping no one "safe."
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by micma-2009 July 18, 2007 9:44 PM EDT


We have done exactly what Al Qaeda wanted us to do. It cost them less than a million dollars to pull off 9/11 and we have spent nearly a trillion to counter that, mostly on invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. The net effect is Al Qaeda is stronger and we are weaker. Heck of a job Bush!


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by pepperp1 July 18, 2007 9:31 PM EDT
SHE IS RELATED TO BAGHDAD BOB!

It is Bob, just with plastic surgey.
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by forthepeopl1 July 18, 2007 9:30 PM EDT
SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE WORKS HARD EVEYDAY..HA HA UNDER SOMEONE DESK OR EVEN ON TOP OF THE DESK SHE IS JUST A PIG
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by forthepeopl1 July 18, 2007 9:27 PM EDT
Make no mistake, they're determined to figure out a way," said Frances Fragos Townsend. "So we work every day to make sure that doesn't happen."

Townsend, who went on the morning news shows to discuss the threat of terrorism a day after the administration released a new National Intelligence Estimate, said, "The question is: Do they have all the capabilities they need to do it? And we don't think they have it yet."

The report concluded among other things that al Qaeda is using its growing strength in Pakistan and Iraq to plot attacks on U.S. soil, heightening the terror threat facing the United States over the next few years

like anyone believe anything the whithouse has to say..remember ALL THE WMD THAT THE WHITE HOUSE SAID WERE THERE..I WOULD BE LOOKING AT ALL OUR BORDER WERE THEY ARE COMMING IN AT RIGHT NOW.

THEY ARE HERE AND THEY WILL MAKE A BIG SLASH SOON. THEN BUSH WILL COME OUT AND SAY I AM KING AND UNTIL WE HAVE THIS WAR OVER I WILL BE IN CHARGE..

WATCH IT WILL BE
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by donnie900 July 18, 2007 9:16 PM EDT
Wow. Nice legs.
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