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AFP reports that "a skeptical US public seems less afraid of another terrorist attack on US soil."

Another Gallup poll this week found that, for the first time, one in two Americans do not believe the war in Iraq is part of Washington's global war on terror.

David Rothkopf, a terrorism expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, calls a spade a spade:

Clearly a political decision has been taken in the White House that the only way that they can regain momentum is by going back to the sort of primal source of their support, September 11. I think it is just unvarnished demagoguery

And my political hero, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, said this:

Facing an historic opportunity for leadership, George Bush turned to the darkness of divisiveness, attempting to garner support for his failed policies by pandering to fear, rather than inspiring us with a plan for hope.

Read it.

Labels: national security, politics