Heckuva job, Bushie

Terror attacks continue to increase worldwide:

Terrorist attacks worldwide shot up more than 25 percent last year, killing 40 percent more people than in 2005, particularly in Iraq where extremists used chemical weapons and suicide bombers to target crowds, the State Department said Monday.

In its annual global survey of terrorism, the department said 14,338 attacks took place in 2006, mainly in Iraq and Afghanistan, 3,185 more than in 2005 representing a 28.5 percent increase.

These strikes claimed a total of 20,498 lives, 13,340 of them in Iraq, 5,800 more, or a 40.2 percent increase, than last year, it said.

Despite the grim figures, State Department officials pointed to some successes in the war on terror. . .

Let’s cut through this bullshit about “some successes” and put the Bush administration’s miserable record on terrorism in perspective. Bush’s “leadership,” if one can call it such, has been an disaster for the “war on terror.” All one has to do is look at the figures for terrorist attacks before Bush’s decision to invade Iraq on a PNAC nation-building experiment.

The number of terror attacks worldwide in 2003, according to the State Department’s analogous report issued in 2004, was 208. That’s right, two-hundred and eight.

The number of terror attacks have soared under Bush, to 11,111 such attacks in 2005, and then to 14,338 last year. From 208 to 14,338 in just three years — a rise of 6,893% in just three years.

There is no room to argue about “successes” in the face of such dismal failures. And still serial-prevaricator and GOP front-runner Rudy Guiliani can vapidly claim that only a Republican can keep Americans safe? The truth is the Republican record on terror is every bit as abysmal as its record on Iraq.