Thanks to BTCNews for doing the legwork:

Terrorism hit record levels in 2005, according to data from the RAND Corporation available through the Department of Homeland Security-funded Terrorism Knowledge Base.

These are “official” figures, since the RAND Corporation is practically a partner in US of A, Inc.

The sum of “international” and “domestic” terrorist attacks in 2005 was 3991, up 51% from the previous year’s figure of 2639. The number of deaths that resulted from those attacks was 6872, which is 36% higher than the 5066 that occurred in 2004.

I wish the stock market was doing as well as this. In Bu$hCoville, there’s about 19 million unemployed. That includes the people who’ve just stopped looking, given up because they’ve lost hope. In Bu$hCoville, 42 million people go to bed each night praying there won’t be some kind of medical catastrophe because they have no medical insurance.

In contrast, in the last year of the Clinton presidency (2000), there were 1138 attacks and 776 deaths. Since then, after five years of Bush’s macho 84 billion-dollar-a-year War on Terror®, attacks have increased by 250% and deaths by a whopping 550%.

You remember Clinton, don’t you? The last legally elected President of the United States? 22 million new jobs, the stock market taking off like the Presidential Priapus? All sorts of wealth, peace, prosperity for everyone? I could even afford to eat meat a couple of times a week. Heck, I could afford to put gas in my car AND heat my home!

Heck of a job, Bushie….