Bush the Al Qaeda Recruiter

George Bush, occupier of Iraq and the Whitehouse, has started another slander tour.

America loses if Democrats win, President says

By James Gerstenzang, Times Staff Writer
8:56 PM PST, October 30, 2006

SUGAR LAND, Texas -- Using the backdrop of the Iraq war to launch some of his toughest campaign attacks this political season, President Bush on Monday accused Democrats of being more concerned with pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq than with winning the war. ... (more)

The truth though, is that Bush's absent-minded and neglectful "Stay-the-Course" policy has turned Iraq into a training ground for Al Qaeda:

INTERVIEW-US tactics swelling Al Qaeda in Iraq-Sunni moderate

29 Oct 2006 15:45:03 GMT

Source: Reuters

By Suleiman al-Khalidi

AMMAN, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Sunnis radicalised by brutal U.S. tactics and disillusioned mainstream insurgents are swelling the ranks of Al Qaeda, which believes it can turn part of Iraq into an Islamic emirate, a moderate Sunni politician said on Sunday.

Saleh Mutlaq, whose Iraqi National Dialogue group supports the U.S.-backed political process, said al Qaeda's growing control of strongholds at the heart of the country's Sunni insurgency was paving the way for an Islamic fundamentalist state in western, central Iraq and even the capital Baghdad. ...

... Mutlaq said heavy-handed U.S. tactics against civilians have propelled many ordinary Sunnis into the arms of al-Qaeda. "American prisons have become the school for suicide bombers and transformed many prisoners into al-Qaeda elements when they were not before," Mutlaq said. ...

... He said al Qaeda's growth has exposed a flaw in U.S. military strategy which conceived Iraq as a place where Islamists zealots from across the region could be drawn into a battlezone far from the United States and wiped out.

Mutlaq said he also saw signs that U.S strategists -- reeling from growing casualties and domestic pressure for an exit strategy -- were ready to talk to mainstream nationalist insurgents opposed to al Qaeda's harsher aspirations for Iraq. ... (full article)

With Democratic oversight from Congress, we at least have the hope of a foriegn policy that encompasses more than talking tough.