Yoinks!

Harlowe · Post by **Harlowe** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:16 am

I was wondering when you were going to drop the "I protect the country" line.

You seem to find it an all occasion comment.

Dlaet · Post by **Dlaet** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:17 am

Makes sense to me as well, Ron, if they are providing data in the standard (read: old) report that could be used by terrorist organizations. The coincidence of the numbers rising and the change in policy caused an increase in suspicions of the administration's motives. Perhaps there is a devious motive, but I suspect this was a typical case of the Bush Administration not caring about the Other Sides opinions.

However, the numbers Klast quoted are interesting. I would like to see the report, and parse the data, or preferably have a more industrious person do it for me, since I am lazy. Would be neat to see where increases have occurred, and if singular "mass" acts like the Russian school or 9/11 have increased, etc.

Pete

Trollbait · Post by **Trollbait** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:31 am

I was wondering when you were going to drop the "I protect the country" line.

You seem to find it an all occasion comment.

Jealous?

Harlowe · Post by **Harlowe** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:33 am

Defensive?

Trollbait · Post by **Trollbait** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:45 am

Defensive?

Dictionary?

Kulaf · Post by **Kulaf** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:38 am

Klast Brell wrote:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01623.html

Overall, the number of what the U.S. government considers "significant" attacks grew to about 655 last year, up from the record of around 175 in 2003, according to congressional aides who were briefed on statistics covering incidents including the bloody school seizure in Russia and violence related to the disputed Indian territory of Kashmir.
Terrorist incidents in Iraq also dramatically increased, from 22 attacks to 198, or nine times the previous year's total -- a sensitive subset of the tally, given the Bush administration's assertion that the situation there had stabilized significantly after the U.S. handover of political authority to an interim Iraqi government last summer.
So if you don't count Iraq, then the numbers still rose 260%. Over 2 and a half times more before you count Iraq.

Those embarrassing numbers Kulaf

You mean they are going to sweep the numbers you just quoted under the rug?

A State Department spokesman said last night that he is confident the data will be officially released. He said the government is committed to "providing the public all the information it needs to have an informed debate on this issue."

That is from the article you just cited.