[Solson]

Arrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhh. This guy is a liberal hack trying to play "non-partisan" in his attack on Bush.

[dirtboy]

This one's special:

Clarke's gutsy insider recounting of events related to 9/11 is an important public service. From my perspective, the Bush administration has practiced the most cynical, opportunistic form of politics I witnessed in my 28 years in government: hijacking legitimate American outrage and patriotism over 9/11 to conduct a pre-ordained war against Saddam Hussein.

That invasion was then misleadingly packaged as a war on terrorism and used to sell more tax cuts, the USA Patriot Act, oil drilling in ANWR, exemptions to environmental laws and other controversial programs.

The Patriot Act was passed long before the war with Iraq. But liberals never let the facts get in the way of their opinions.

[Dilbert56]

This guy is an idiot and wrong to boot.

• We undertook a major mailitary operation in Afghanistan just one day after the Iraq war started.
• We've conducted four others since.
• Does any thinking person think we haven't destroyed Al Qaeda because we need more troops in Afghanistan? If we knew the locations of AQ they'd be dead within hours.
• Jason has a great retort about logistics of trying to place a huge force in Afghanistan here(scroll down a few).
• Ask someone what resources Iraq took away from Afghanistan and about the most you'll get is "Arabic translators". Of course the part of Afghanistan we're working in speaks Pashtun so we would only need enough Arabic speakers to cover the Al Qaeda foreigners. How many interceptable comminucations do you think they put out?