http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_6429016NIE report card gives Bush a 'D' in anti-terror fightJoseph Galloway
It was report card time this week, never one of George W. Bush's happier moments, and the news was anything but good. Never mind the usual grades on English and math or coloring inside the lines, or those teacher notes on the bottom about "plays well with others." It was that big fat "D" in the column 'War on Terror' that had them sweating at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Despite much-ballyhooed announcements about the killing or capture of this or that right-hand man, the assessment said that Osama has rebuilt a stronger, more dangerous network that remains focused on attacking the United States and its people.
And where has this taken place? In Iraq, where we have 150,000 troops and an additional 185,000 private contractors bogged down in the middle of a civil war at a cost of $12 billion and more than 100 dead Americans a month? The same Iraq that the president has repeatedly identified as the central focus, the cockpit actually, of his global war on terror?
No. Not really. It has all taken place in Pakistan, where our great and good ally in that war, President/Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has let things literally go to hell along his border with neighboring Afghanistan, and let Osama and his boys rebuild in a sanctuary beyond reach of American forces.
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"It hasn't worked for Pakistan," says Frances Fragos Townsend of the Homeland Security Council at the White House, and "it hasn't worked for the United States."
But it sure has worked for al-Qaida and Osama.
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