First, we learn that there was less torture under Saddam ... and now, we learn that terrorism is higher than before we mistakenly attacked Iraq!

What next? Now we learn that the Iraq War has actually raised the terror threat in America and worldwide ... as well as the condition(s) of most Iraqis. And no, this is not just some Democratic Party propaganda or some irrelevant commentator's best guess -- it's an official classified assessment of the war's affect of terrorism taken directly out of the NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) received (but seldom read, I fear) by the White House and Congress as a consensus opinion of the sixteen spy agencies throughout the Government -- that's the CIA, NSA, DIA, FBI, etc, etc, etc.

If this report doesn't disconnect Bush's war/occupation of Iraq from the ongoing War on Terror [sic], I guess I don't know what will. This isn't a political issue; it's a disaster and a shameful loss of American and Iraqi life (plus others) that we are talking about.

What do we tell the families now? What do we say to the wives, husbands and parents of the young men and women involved in a conflict that is actually raising the terror threat?

Perhaps, Mr. Bush isn't at fault; after all, he has had to follow the directions of his handlers, the neocons (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc.) until now ... but with this report in his hands, he can try to rectify the situation ... now!