which brings alleged enemies, Washington's mostly, under the cloak of the war on terrorism. When history gets written, we will all eventually find out that the war on terrorism was largely a right wing conservative fabrication. For the most part, Al Qaeda ceased to be operational after the Northern Alliance, with the help of our airforce, conquered Afganistan. Pretty much it has been small groups of independent radicals that have continued terrorist activity, as in Spain and Britain, largely on their own.

War on terrorism: the great political tool Rove didn't invent. It fell into their laps.