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Rhymes with Dubya: The President and His CriticsThe President has often pointed out that the Iraq War is but one theatre in the over-all War on Terror. When his critics hear this, all they hear is a sad attempt to justify a huge mistake. A mistake that has distracted the U.S. from what should be its main goal: the destruction of Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network. To these critics, the policies of the Bush Administration are not only wrong, they are downright dangerous, adding to our insecurity rather than diminishing it. A good example of this type of...

Writing in his Diary at NRO, David Frum reports: "The story is going around Washington that Senate Foreign Relations chairman Richard Lugar handed Condoleezza Rice a list of names of 'neocons' he wanted blacklisted from the Department of State and that Rice assented. If the story is true, you can see how it might signal unscrupulous present and former CIA officials to go even further- even to the extent of jeopardizing secret missions." What Frum is referring to in the second passage is the willingness of anti-Bush officials in the USG to leak secret or classified material--in this case about...