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The central front in the "war on terror"?

Biden gets Crocker to acknowledge that al-Qaida is a greater threat along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border than it is in Iraq.

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  • Wednesday, April 9, 2008 09:16 AM

    @jpincus

    "Liberals have either gotten used to finding fault where no fault exists or forgotten how to analyze texts properly. Either way, the article's conclusions are wrong and its arrogant pronouncement about the Bush administration is contradicted by the Ambassador's own statement."

    I disagree. The real problem lies with the fact that the Bush administration has misrepresented the war from the very beginning. I'm not going to waste time and space listing all of the instances of the egregious lies, it's all well documented. Conservatives have to accept the fact that the lies of Bush administration are viewed by most of the nation, and the world at large, as systemic and not the result of a few individuals. The short, sad answer is that, regardless of the personal veracity of the General or the Ambassador, they work for an administration with no credibility and no amount of hairsplitting is going to change that.

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