[ikez78]

The author of the report RIPS the media's coverage of the report as well.

[Marine_Uncle]

I had downloaded the document a few days back, then took the time to read through it. The L/MSM have done such a great job of dumbing down America. What small percentage of voters will ever read Hayes or Kristol's commentaries on this issue.

[CutePuppy]

Bush administration officials, meanwhile, tell us that the Iraq war is the central front in the war on terror and that American national security depends on winning there. And yet they are too busy or too tired or too lazy to correct these fundamental misperceptions about the case for war, the most important decision of the Bush presidency.

That's been the signature MO and one of the weakest points of Bush presidency in foreign policy. The concept of "bully pulpit" has been missing in action almost since the beginning of administration...

What good is the truth if nobody knows it?

"If a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?" ... back to the "bully pulpit" issue.

[Thrownatbirth]

Again, at precisely the same time Zawahiri was "joining with bin Laden," the spring of 1993, he was being funded by Saddam Hussein's Iraq

Zarahiri's problem was that he had an army with no guns and no money. Nice to know Saddam kept the Egyptian Islamic Jihad solvent until the fatal linkup of Zawahiri's men with bin Laden's Saudi resources. I think one can safely say that Saddam, in this respect, was somewhat instrumental in the birth of al Qaeda.