Yahoo! News - Officials Warn of Future Terror Attacks
WASHINGTON - Speaking with one voice, President Bush's top intelligence and military officials said Wednesday that terrorists are regrouping for possible new strikes against the United States.

They said the best defense was for Congress to approve the president's military and anti-terror budget. But some in Congress, including prominent Republicans, were questioning some of that spending.

Offering few specifics on terror threats, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told a House hearing that the government could reasonably predict attacks would come from terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and other means.

Meanwhile, new CIA Director Porter Goss told the Senate Intelligence Committee the Iraq war was giving terrorists experience and contacts for future attacks, and FBI Director Robert Mueller expressed worry that a sleeper operative in the U.S. may have been in place for years, awaiting orders for an attack.

When I read this, my twisted mind jumped to the Violent Femmes song "Prove My Love"-

"Third verse! Same as the first! Just last night I was reminded of, just had bad it had gotten, and just how sick I had become....."

We've all heard this before- "The terrorists are coming! The terrorists are coming! Need more money NOW!"

But wait! What's this? Tom DeLay questioning all the President's men?

Yet the Republican-controlled Congress may exercise its considerable authority over federal spending and reject White House requests to simply sign the checks.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., the new chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said lawmakers were questioning billions in foreign aid and State Department spending that Bush requested in an emergency bill this week.

DeLay, R-Texas, said some of Bush's foreign aid proposals "probably do not qualify" for the expedited treatment he's seeking.

*rubbing my eyes* Tell me I did not just read that. Does this mean the Republicans are actually growing a spine? Granted, he was talking about the foreign aid, but still- actually denying a WH request?

Problem is- one of these days the "terrorist threat" will be true. And because they have "cried wolf" so many times, nobody is listening anymore. Duct tape and plastic sheet sales remain stagnant.