Bush to Blame for Stronger Al-Qaeda, His Critics Say

Source: Washington Post

The White House faced fresh political peril yesterday in the form of a new intelligence assessment that raised sharp questions about the success of its counterterrorism strategy and judgment in making Iraq the focus of that effort.

Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush has been able to deflect criticism of his counterterrorism policy by repeatedly noting the absence of any new domestic attacks and by citing the continuing threat that terrorists in Iraq pose to U.S. interests.

But this line of defense seemed to unravel a bit yesterday with the release of a new National Intelligence Estimate that concludes that al-Qaeda "has protected or regenerated key elements of its Homeland attack capability" by reestablishing a haven in Pakistan and reconstituting its top leadership. The report also notes that al-Qaeda has been able "to recruit and indoctrinate operatives, including for Homeland attacks," by associating itself with an Iraqi subsidiary.

These disclosures triggered a new round of criticism from Democrats and others who say that the administration took its eye off the ball by invading Iraq without first destroying Osama bin Laden's organization in Afghanistan.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071702007.html?hpid=topnews

Par for the course, W...the law of unintended consequences bites you in the ass for the millionth time.

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Or maybe not. Maybe that was his plan all along. :scared:

...is Democrats using Al Qaeda's presence in Iraq---against Junior.

I mean really. We go over there to find WMD and spread peace and freedom.

We then turn the place into a hornet's nest of Al Qaeda.

It's a colossal, perverse failure that we are knee-deep in daily
violence and Al-Qaeda battles---when our initial mission was to
liberate the Iraqi people.

Is way too stupid to be accurately accused of actually making any substantive policy decisions. While he is ultimately responsible as the "Prez" you might as well blame the bossa nova!

He has been the "Kiss of Death" to every, that is an unqualified every, enterprise that he has had any control over.

He is a willing pawn/puppet and a seriously flawed one.

No one handling him in 2000 ever thought that they would actually be able to steal the election. If they had thought that they could prevail they would have put up a more intelligent candidate.

Bush was expected to lose, even by his Neo-Con fascist handlers.

It couldn't be that invading Iraq was a mistake?

Oh no, the mistake is that we didn't invade it just the right way, or at just the right time, or with just the right number of troops, or with just the right justification, or just the right...

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