File this one under WTF!?

U.S. Orders Freeze on Zarqawi Network Assets

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday ordered a freeze on assets of the militant group led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, which has claimed responsibility for a series of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings in Iraq.

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control added Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group to its list of suspected terrorists and terrorism financiers.

"Of course" Bush is serious about fighting terrorism... NOT! (see the article for details on Bush and "of course") I mean really! It took until today to put a freeze on the assets of the guy who is beheading people left and right and launching attacks on our troops and our citizens in the "green zone" and elsewhere for months!? We have known who he was, that he was performing and inciting terrorist acts throughout Iraq and they are only now freezing his bank accounts and assets!?

WTF took so long?

Hello!!! Anyone home? Yoo hoo... Mr "Strong on Terrorism"... anyone there?

Add to that the news this week that the U.S. "lost" the nuclear reactor materials in Iraq that were being protected by the U.N. because we neglected to secure them...

Feeling safer yet?

This is by far the most incompetent administration ever, period. They should be given the Olympic gold medal for incompetence and ineptitude.

Ashcroft is oh-for in prosecuting suspected terrorists. The detainees in Gitmo are likely to be let free without being charged because... well, most of them simply weren't terrorists, they were mostly kids with AK-47's fighting for the Taliban because they were told to do so. They have certainly yielded no useful anti-terrorism information thus far despite the fact that they have been abused to no end.

Rumsfeld has caused the situation in Iraq to go FUBAR because he refused (and still refuses) to send more troops despite the fact that the commanders on the ground have been asking repeatedly for more and despite the fact that Shinseki and other senior military personnel told him that it would take 2-300k troops to secure the peace. He has also been responsible for the Abu Ghraib (and other) abuses.

Condi has misread all of the intellegence she's been given and has not done her job.

Powell has caved to the neo-cons. He's been mostly ineffective and IMO a sell out.

The FBI can't read the intellegence it gets in Arabic because it keeps firing translators who either blow the whistle that there aren't enough or because they are gay.

The economy and the environment are both going down the tiolet.

The U.S. government needs adult supervision. Right now, the insane and the incompetent are running the asylum.

I can't wait to give Bushco the finger on Nov 2nd, despite the fact that my vote will be as a mote in a dust-storm being as I am registered in Massachusetts.