The Bush administrations Counterterrorism Chief says country "not safer from terrorism then before Iraqi war". Then he got sick and resigned. Hmm.

Three days after Americans saw the Bush administration's counterterrorism chief say the Iraq war has likely not made the United States safer from terrorism, the official announced his resignation, citing health reasons.

On Monday, NBC News broadcast an interview with Redd in which he said that the U.S. was "probably" not safer from terrorism today than it was before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In the longer term, he said, "We'll wait and see."

Redd's comment apparently contradicted an assertion made by President Bush's top counterterrorism adviser, Fran Townsend, that the terrorist threat "would have been worse" if the United States had not invaded Iraq.

NCTC spokesman Carl Kropf said Redd's decision to leave was "absolutely not" related to his comments, and that he had not been pressured in any way to step down.

"And my family is NOT being held captive to ensure that I make these statements, and there are NOT snipers with rifles trained on me at this moment. Oh God, Bush is the devil!"

I think that the message that we must take from this is that "George Bush hates the truth!"

With my apologies to Kanye West.