Free Republic

Just when you think it can’t get any worse, liberals just keep on talking. This weeks front-runner for RUFs “Idiot of the Week” , is American Interest writer John Mueller. “Terrorphobia: Our False Sense of Insecurity” makes ridiculous claims that are so far from the truth they could only come from a liberal train of thought. He states that President Bush “garnered great political benefit from the terrorism scare”. First off, Sept. 11 was not a scare. It was an attack our country, our fellow Americans and our ideology. Secondly, any acclaim that President Bush received after 9/11 was well...

Declassified details of plots pried from high-value al-Qaida detainees should put to rest the left's silly notion that President Bush has been hyping the threat for political gain. Detainees have confirmed that al-Qaida continues to work on operations against the U.S., a fact underscored most recently by the foiled airline plot in London. But don't tell that to war critics such as John Mueller, a political science professor at Ohio State University. He argues in the latest issue of "Foreign Affairs" that the threat from Islamic terrorists "has been massively exaggerated" and that Bush has juiced the war to grab...