It's still not too late to impeach the deluded incompetent who led us into such a terrible position.

Yes it is, I think, but we already did any way, but nothing came of it, right now he is running around backstabbing our troops and undermining our war effort in foreign countries and being paid well for it.

Or where you talking about Carter?

Do you really think we would be any closer to getting Bin Laden if we had not gone into Iraq and Afghanistan? He is supposed to be in the badlands where even the Pakistanis cannot go.

Hell yes. We might not be able to get major troop formations up there to root him out 'cave by cave', but we would damn sure stop the flow of support, supplies, & communications in & out of that area. And, the troop presence there would keep Musharraf _and_ the warlords on the straight and narrow while we were doing it.

2. What warnings in the Summer of 01?

Well, I would assume he's referring to whatever intel that culminated in the infamous 'Bin Laden intends to strike' memo Condi and W never got around to reading... Of course, that very statement, by a senior DHS official, mind you, puts the lie to the pathetic defense that there wasn't really much intel buzz prior to 9-11, but very few people would be surprised by such a realization anymore.

Multiple car bombs designed to slaughter hundreds of civilians and strikes against critical infrastructure are daily events in Baghdad, and al-Qaeda in Iraq has decided to put its experience in mass murder on the internet...

Do you really think we would be any closer to getting Bin Laden if we had not gone into Iraq and Afghanistan? He is supposed to be in the badlands where even the Pakistanis cannot go.

Do you really think getting Bin Laden will stop the ratbags. You need to conduct a little research into A) The Muslim Brotherhood, B) Iran and its declaration of war against the USA in 1979, and C) Al Qaeda's declaration of war against the US in 1998.

2. What warnings in the Summer of 01?

Don't forget that in those days we had the 2004 presidential Elections, and the DHS was required to maintain high fear levels so that America would "Stay the Course".

Now we are past that presidential election and the need for fear mongering has diminished. But don't worry, come 2008 we can expect the color codes to start ramping up again, especially if the Republican nominee starts to lag in the polls.

"This is reminiscent of the warnings and intelligence we were getting in the summer of 2001," the official told ABCNews.com.

Well, that pretty much says all you need to know, then. We're all screwed now.

Now we are in endless, pointless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while Bin Laden has had six years to laugh at us, kill hundreds in Bali and Madrid, and send mocking videotapes to the media.

It's still not too late to impeach the deluded incompetent who led us into such a terrible position.

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Very little of the 'chatter' looks real at first; it's mostly garbage. Only with the hindsight goggles on does it stand out like a sore thumb.

As far as a warning to the Brits goes, there might have been a message passed. But it might not have gone to the right people at the right time. It could still be sitting in an in-box somewhere. We have no reason to believe that British bureaucracy is any more efficient than our own.