It's probably time to trot out Bush's past national security track record

[FormerRepublican]

After all, McCain says we should just trust Bush!

Here's a matter relevant to whether we can trust Bush with national security issues:

"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The effort by U.S. officials to justify raising the terror alert level last week may have shut down an important source of information that has already led to a series of al Qaeda arrests, Pakistani intelligence sources have said.

Until U.S. officials leaked the arrest of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan to reporters, Pakistan had been using him in a sting operation to track down al Qaeda operatives around the world, the sources said.

In background briefings with journalists last week, unnamed U.S. government officials said it was the capture of Khan that provided the information that led Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to announce a higher terror alert level.

Khan is a computer expert who officials said helped Osama bin Laden communicate with his terror network."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/08/terror.wrap/

More:

http://www.pakdef.info/forum/showthread.php?t=5866

And More:

"FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2005

LONDON Scotland Yard called it Operation Crevice. In late March 2004, a force of 700 British police officers arrested eight British-born ethnic Pakistanis in two dozen raids in southern Britain.

The police also seized 590 kilograms, or 1,300 pounds, of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which can be used to make bombs.

The operation, one of the largest British counterterrorism raids in years, was a terrifying alert for the British police: uncovering a sleeper terrorist cell that intended to stage an attack here.

What was worrying was that the threat appeared to come from a new source, British citizens with Pakistani roots. Until then, most recent terrorist plots on European soil had involved ethnic North Africans and other Arabs."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/14/news/raids.php

Bush can't keep his trap shut when it involves Al Qaeda, and his loose lips sank ships in the form of possibly leading to a terror attack in London that killed a bunch of people, but we're supposed to trust him to figure out if we should sell US ports to the UAE.

Pfft.

[blm]

1. Bush was handed HartRudman Report on Global Terror on Jan30,2001

Bush refused to read it.

Did McCain TRUST Bush to read that report?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. I don't think that they ever rounded up Osama Bin Laden either.

[sui generis]

3. trust bush - a picture is worth a thousand essays