Pakistan, not Iraq, is Al-Qaeda’s Location of Choice President Bush continues to claim that an Iraq free of U.S. forces would quickly become a haven for al-Qaeda. But according to an intelligence estimate given to Congress last week, Pakistan’s lawless border with Afghanistan is currently a much more hospitable place to al-Qaeda’s forces, and therefore a much graver threat â but our presence in Iraq is hampering our ability to respond to it. (McClatchy Newspapers)Libby’s Attorneys Describe Him as a Victim “I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby was ‘put through the meat grinder’ by the White House shortly after the Iraq war began, scapegoated to conceal the fact that Karl Rove, the president’s top political adviser, helped disclose an undercover CIA officer’s identity, a defense attorney contended yesterday as Libby’s perjury trial began.” (The Washington Post)
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