George W. Bush is unhappy. He announced today that leaks of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) are wrong. Those leaks contend that the Iraq war has raised the threat of terror rather than reduced it. Given that the War on Terror is Bush's strong suit, he is fighting back.
To counter this news, which everyone knew already, Bush has agreed to declassify parts of the NIE. Here is the portion he has agreed to release. A friend in the government leaked this to me;
it doesn't say anything about Iraq.
The graph below, which summarizes terrorist activity for several years, including Bush's time in office, shows a dramatic increase in world-wide terrorist activity since the beginning of the Iraq War.
Bush says that
the Iraq war had nothing to do with this increase. The terrorists are evil people. They hate us anyway. They were always present; I just brought them out of hiding.
Bush has responded to critics by saying he knows that we are not completely safe yet.
Give me and the Republican party another 10 years, and we will have the situation under control.