Liberals Give Terrorists a Free Pass

Thank you for your comments. I was really attempting, in this post, to address the threat of Islam and, in a general sense, the Liberal approach to it. The Iraq war was more of a side issue in the course of a more general discussion, but since you highlighted it in your comments, I'll address it more directly now.

Valerie Plame wasn't a covert CIA operative. She was a desk jockey. Furthermore, she wasn't "outed" by the White House, but by former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who was actually an opponent of Bush's Iraq war strategy. It is also my understanding that Bush didn't lie us into Iraq (that is, deliberately give us false info), but instead operated on intel that he understood at the time to be true but was later discovered to be faulty (that is, he accidentally gave us false info). I'm not sure what evidence you're referring to when you mention "pre-9/11 threats," but if you're referring to the now-infamous August 6 Presidential Daily Briefing -- which was titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S." and which Liberals cite as sure-fire proof that Bush "knew" about 9/11 in advance -- I've read it, and it gives no details that would pinpoint the date, time, locations, or methods of attack that occurred on 9/11. Bush certainly knew that Bin Ladin was a threat, but as to the "who, what, when, where and how?", I'm not convinced that Bush knew anything. I'd also like to note that neither you nor the mainstream media have called the Clinton administration to task for their terrorist-prevention failures, most notably their failure to take Bin Ladin into custody when they had a chance to do so.

For what it's worth, I'm not convinced that it was a good idea to go into Iraq; Afghanistan seemed like a much more logical battlefront. But neither am I convinced that our presence in Iraq has "bred" terrorism, nor that pulling out now would be the wisest decision.