"War on Terror" Numbers To Silence Republican Candidates

Now, these are the numbers we should all be talking about.

BobGeiger.com: "War on Terror" Numbers To Silence Republican Candidates:

When George W. Bush made a prime-time television appearance Monday night to give a political speech -- under the guise of commemorating the five-year anniversary of September 11 -- he started right off by telling both a lie and the truth in one short sentence.

'Today, we are safer, but we are not yet safe,' said Bush, which means he was batting .500 with the truth in just one short statement. Not bad for him. It is undeniably true that we are not yet safe, but to imply that we are safer than we were before Bush turned the world against us is demonstrably false.

And Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) sketched out the only numbers needed to confirm that Bush's 'war on terror' is not only going very badly, but has gotten much, much worse on his watch.

'Osama bin Laden is still on the loose. Al-Qaeda's membership, estimated at 20,000 on 9/11, is now estimated by our intelligence agencies at 50,000. Instead of shrinking and disappearing, they are growing geometrically,' said Durbin on the Senate floor Tuesday, in describing how unsafe Republicans have made America.