Bush declassifies portion of intelligence report to shut up his critics. Instead it works like gasoline on a fire.

In the bleak report, released Tuesday on Bush's orders, the nation's most veteran analysts conclude that despite serious damage to the leadership of al-Qaida, the threat from Islamic extremists has spread both in numbers and in geographic reach.

Bush and his top advisers have said the formerly classified assessment of global terrorism supported their arguments that the world is safer because of the war. But more than three pages of stark judgments warning about the spread of terrorism contrasted with the administration's glass-half-full declarations.

"If this trend continues, threats to U.S. interests at home and abroad will become more diverse, leading to increasing attacks worldwide," the document says. "The confluence of shared purpose and dispersed actors will make it harder to find and undermine jihadist groups."

Maybe George Bush should start to read these things before he just assumes that they back up his point of view. This thing does not support the war in Iraq at all.

Only an idiot would make the argument that, sure it was a mistake to go in there but since we are there now we need to stay until we can make it better. That ignores the first part of the sentence, "it was a mistake to go in there"!

When has it ever worked that continuing to make a mistake will suddenly rectify the mistake? I don't want to come down on people of faith too hard but eventually you people need to have a visit from the reality fairy. There is tons of evidence that there is a monstrous mistake happening and if we don't do something to try and repair the damage then our country, no the whole world, is truly fucked!