Originally posted by Jay-in-AR
Al Qaeda recruitment is reportedly at an all time high because of the Bush policies.
Where is your evidence to support that statement?
1. How do we know recruitment is up at all?
2. How do we know that recruitment is up because of Bush policies and not because of an anticipated change of leadership in the United States in which they believe they can push Obama around because he lacks foreign policy experience and they know it?
As for Bin Laden wanting to destroy the U.S., we know that to be true, but Al Qaida was trying to do this even during Clinton's administration. In fact, all of the following happened on Clinton's watch:
* February 26, 1993: Islamic terrorists try to bring down the World Trade Center with car bombs; killed 6 and injured over 1000 people
* January 6, 1995: Operation Bojinka, an Islamist plot to bomb 11 U.S. airliners over the Pacific Ocean, is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila, Philippines apartment by authorities after a fire occurred in the apartment
* June 25, 1996: The Khobar Towers bombing, carried out by Hezbollah with Iranian support. 19 U.S. servicemen were killed and 372 wounded
* November 17, 1997: Massacre in Luxor, Egypt, in which Islamist gunmen attack tourists, killing 62 people
* August 7, 1998: Al Qaeda bombs U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000
* December 14, 1998: Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States?Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots
* October 12, 2000: AL Qaeda bombs USS Cole with explosive-laden speedboat, killing 17 US sailors and wounding 40
And then there's this:
