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As President Bush comes off a series of speeches designed to reassure the American people, a classifiesd report from the nation's 16 spy agencies tells a different story. According to an estimate from the National Intelligence Council, the war in Iraq is making the threat of terrorism worse. America is less safe today than it was after Sept. 11, 2001, because the conflict is creating more extremists... The White House says the leaked portions of the report are incomplete and out of context. One of the aides emphasized that they believed taking the fight to the terrorists was, in their...