Ummmmm....I hate to point this out, but Tenet was speaking on Iraq, Not Al Queda/Islamofascism.....
Don't know why you'd hate to point it out. We shifted military resources and national security focus away from hunting al-Qaeda and Osama in order to attack Iraq and neutralize the WMD "threat" from Saddam.
But let's review
SOTU, 2002:
States like these [Iraq], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.
GWB just used the phrase 'gathering threat' again. Saying 'for years he funded terrorism, funded suicide bombers,...,made a mockery of U.N...."
Interestingly, no claims about the dire threat he posed to us. Or about the WMD threat.
You should be watching this speech. Rove wrote this piece very very carefully. We're about to see a substantial shift away from what we had seen and thought of as the Bush Doctrine.
Now he's trying to explain the failure to find WMD.
This is not a good moment. I'm feeling a certain sympathy for our president. I still think he acted in good faith. The crowd is pretty supportive. But the audience was no doubt selected for this response.
There are major weaknesses in this. The Dim strategists will be on the attack in only a few hours. A lot of red meat here for them to use.
I beg to differ with you, and probably on this point with the actual man that owns your sn.
Though dressed in religious garb, Islamo-fascism is a political ideology; no different than nazism or communism.
Only, IMO, it is potentially more dangerous than both of them put together.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.