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Clarke is a highly partisan player and has been on both sides of the Al Qaeda/Iraq link. He has a side in this game: to show that his work as leader of the US's main counterterrorism group under Clinton was not poor and did not lead to bin Laden finding more resolve to attack the US.

There are several witnesses that Bush had uttered these sentences. You are using the same tactics the White House and GOP are always using; in case someone brings the bad news, kill the messenger without asking questions. Next ask, what bad news?

Despite the semantic confusion, Americans understand that. The entire "two-thirds of Americans" poll hysteria is simply that: hysteria over a little semantic confusion.

This semantic confusion was willfully and deliberately created by the White House in order to sell the Iraq war. All these stories about contacts between Saddam and al-Qaeda all proved bogus.

And wow, it's now turned magically into 70%. In another year it'll be 75%. Meanwhile you guys are cherry-picking items which seem to prove your point but actually don't, ignoring the bulk of what the administration said.

Facts are facts, Watson.

Of course to hear the bulk, you have to listen carefully sometimes, because the administration is incompetent, and unable to get its message across to the public. This is partly because it is hostile to the media and partly because it only cares enough to convince 51% of the public.

Aux contraire, the government is very good in innuendo and telling half truths in order to get the American people into a disastrous war. Before the war the Bushites never, ever denied the link 9-11/Saddam although it was all over the news. Only after a congressional investigation Bush and, reluctantly, Cheney had to admit Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11.

This is self-indulgent, quickly becomes very petty, is mostly about nonsense, and the voters realize that too. Last time the anti-Bush league brought out their own film full of self-indulgent criticism, and the long-term result was Bush was reelected.

That's because he played the Iraq and war on terror again. Today people finally realise that the Bush guvmint has nothing achieved to their own goals. There has never been any more terror in the world as it is now.

Bush (and you) might read this book how to really fight the war on terror:
What Terrorist Want".

"The rhetoric of declaring war on terrorism, she argues, is a mistake. Terrorism is a tactic, and thus cannot be defeated; what can be defeated, or at least contained, are individual groups of terrorists.

Thus her "Six Rules":

• Have a defensible and achievable goal, such as stopping the spread of Islamist militancy.

• Live by your principles. No more Abu Ghraibs.

• Know your enemy.

• Separate the terrorists from their communities.

• Engage others in countering terrorists with you.

• Have patience and keep your perspective.

I always said the Bush guvmint is incompetent, lied and mislead the American people. I'm not religious, so I won't say they're evil.