Complete revamp of US Intelligence Services and Security Agencies.

Not just a little tinkering here and there then? Were they no good before?

mproved lines of communication to ensure overview of intelligence data.

Goodness knows what happened before that!!

Drawing the line in the sand - "You are either with us or against us" Which concentrated the minds of some waiverers and increased the amount of information and degree of co-operation with US Intelligence Services from around the world.

And the net result of that has been.......?

IMO ISPS Code

MJOF (Meaningless Jargon Old Fruit)

Department of Homeland Security

I was in the USA this time last year for Xmas. Had a great time. At Washington Dulles Airport as I left there were so many bags left unattended anyone could have blown the place up. I hope things have improved.

Intelligence gathering powers

Whereas before this there was...............

Taking the fight to the "enemy" whenever and wherever that enemy can be found. Al-Qaeda is having a tough enough time struggling to survive at the moment, it doesn't have time to plot or the facilities to train.

I am not sure why enemy is inverted commas. You don't actually know what sort of time Al Queda is having because you don't actually know who it/they are, and you don't actually know where it/they are. Otherwise you would have got rid of them by now - wouldn't you?

And frankly neither does the intelligence services of the nations that are looking for them and the army that is fighting them.

Forced the leadership of Al-Qaeda to very publicly declare war on their own kind (Tends not to go down well in the "muslim world" when muslim is ordered to kill muslim

Oh! good! It'll soon all be over then!

Teribus - this is the net result of all this intelligence and change. Well done Bush.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=ardg6

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/Cost-of-War/Cost-of-War-3.html