So Much for "Homeland Security"

More cheery news from the Lugar report?  How about this: "...for the foreseeable future, the United States and other nations will face an existential threat from the intersection of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction."

In other words, we are not, repeat NOT, winning the "war on terror."  Our homeland is not, repeat NOT more secure.  And we are not, repeat NOT safer thanks to the policies of of the Bush Administration and Republican Congress. 

Meanwhile, according to a new CIA study, "Iraq may prove to be an even more effective training ground for Islamic extremists than Afghanistan was in Al Qaeda's early days, because it is serving as a real-world laboratory for urban combat."  That's right, Iraq, which was supposed to be a beacon of democracy and freedom in the Middle East by now, has instead cost us over 1,700 young Americans killed, thousands more wounded, hundreds of billions of dollars, and a Middle East that is even less stable than before.  Congratulations, Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz and friends!

Oh, by the way, I'll give you all one guess as to where all these new Islamic extremists are coming from.  That's right, they're pouring forth from our great ally and oil supplier, Saudi Arabia.  Reportedly, Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware was "told by American officials during a recent trip to Iraq that a 'disproportionate number' of the foreign fighters now active there came from Saudi Arabia."  You know, the country whose de facto ruler was last spotted holding hands and kissing President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas? 

In sum, nearly four years after that terrible day of 9/11/2001, the United States and the rest of the world are at high or even increased risk of a terrorist attack using weapons of mass destruction (WMD) .  Thanks to the politices of the Bush Administration, all we have really succeeded in doing during those years is to shift the center of terror from Afghanistan to Iraq, which prior to our invasion was not connected to anti-American terrorism at all. 

And Saudi Arabia -- the country that produced both Osama bin Laden and 15 of 19 hijackers on 9/11 -- remains the prime source of new terrorists.  Yet four years after 9/11, the United States has done nothing to reduce its oil import dependence on Saudi Arabia.  Well, isn't that a big suprise coming from George "Failed Oil Man" Bush and Dick "Halliburton CEO" Cheney?  Short answer?  No.

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