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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 11:45 AM
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Government audit discovers that Bush Admin has no plan to get rid of Al Qaeda
Congress plans to press the Bush administration aggressively to justify its policy in Afghanistan following a nonpartisan report that concludes that the administration "lacks a comprehensive plan" to take on al Qaeda in its stronghold.

"I want to shine light on this," Rep. Howard Berman, the California Democrat who chairs the House Foreign Relations Committee, told ABC News today. "I want the American people to know what is not happening, and I believe that pressure from that public scrutiny will force this administration and certainly the next administration to make a 180-degree change."

Berman has scheduled a hearing for May 7 to grill administration officials.

His concern follows a report by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, that concludes, "No comprehensive plan for meeting U.S. national security goals ... has been developed" in Pakistan's lawless tribal region along the Afghan border.

The Bush administration does not have such a plan, even though it was called for by the 9/11 Commission and was mandated under a 2007 law, the GAO report said.

The report pulls no punches. It concludes that six years after President Bush pledged to take Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," al Qaeda has "regenerated its ability to attack the United States and had succeeded in establishing a safe haven" in Pakistan's border region.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=4688491&page=1
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 11:50 AM
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1. Suprise, suprise... NOT!
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 11:52 AM
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2. But they probably have a plan for Iran because they attacked us on 9/11, on second thought
they didn't go figure?:shrug:
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Clear Blue Sky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 11:54 AM
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3. Keep the bogey man alive. Always useful to scare the public... n/t
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glowing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 11:57 AM
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4. Really? DUH.. How else does he continue swindling Americans to
pay for "security" against terra...
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deminks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 12:16 PM
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5. Why would Bushco and friends get rid of one of the cash cows? nt
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notesdev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 12:25 PM
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6. Of course there's no plan to take on AQ
It should be obvious to anyone watching. The headquarters of Al-Qaida is in Riyadh. Our President goes there as a supplicant, on hands and knees, begging for them to produce more oil.
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