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Date: July 18, 2007 1:09:52 PM PDT
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Subject: To Quote a Senior Republican Senator: "Bush F**ked Up"
America's War on Terror
Right-wing moneybags Richard Mellon Scaife, in editorials in his
newspapers, condemned the President vow to "stay the course" in
Iraq as "a prescription for America's suicide," and even hinted
that George Bush was mentally unstable
Bush told Iraq war has helped al-Qa’eda
By Tim Shipman in Washington
The Telegraph (UK), July 18, 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/18/
wiraq118.xml
President George W Bush was facing increasingly blunt criticism of
his Iraq policy last night as a US intelligence report suggested
that the war has made al-Qa'eda attacks on American soil more likely.
President Bush is losing support from Republicans in Congress
Senator George Voinovich, a close ally of Mr Bush, delivered a
withering assessment of the situation in Iraq, declaring that the
Bush administration had "f****d up the war".
The Ohio senator revealed that he warned Karl Rove - the
President's chief political adviser - last week that Mr Bush must
devise a new plan for Iraq or he would vote with Democrats on
Capitol Hill to withdraw troops from Iraq.
He spoke out as a declassified National Intelligence Estimate of
the terrorist threat to the US indicated that the Iraq war has
helped al-Qa'eda "raise resources and to recruit and indoctrinate
operatives, including for homeland attacks".
The document, which represents the considered views of 16 US
intelligence agencies, appeared at odds with Mr Bush's repeated
claims that America must prosecute the war in Iraq to prevent
terrorists "following us home" with attacks in the US. The three-
page report, two pages of which were released to the public, argues
that "al-Qa'eda will probably seek to leverage the contacts and
capabilities of al-Qa'eda in Iraq".
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The findings echo similar assessments of the terror threat from
British spy chiefs.
They inflamed an already febrile atmosphere in Congress, where Mr
Bush is haemorrhaging support from Republicans.
Mr Voinovich had previously indicated that he would delay any vote
to leave Iraq until September, when General David Petraeus, the
commander in Iraq, reports to Congress on the status of his surge
strategy. But Mr Voinovich shocked political Washington, where
personal criticisms and profanity are generally more muted than in
Westminster, with the vehemence of his views - which he stated in
the halls of the senate. Mr Voinovich, who meets Mr Bush and his
inner circle regularly, revealed that he told Mr Rove the President
must change course, or face a new mutiny.
"The President is a young man and should think about his legacy. He
should know history will not be kind unless he can come up with a
plan that protects the troops and stabilises the region," he said.
He said other Republicans were close to speaking out against the
President's current strategy. "I have every reason to believe that
the fur is going to start to fly, perhaps sooner than what they may
have wanted," he said.
Mr Voinovich is not the only ally of the President losing faith.
Yesterday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, owned by the hitherto
loyal businessman Richard Mellon Scaife, branded the Bush
administration's plans to stay the course in Iraq a "prescription
for American suicide". In an editorial, the paper condemned Mr
Bush's performance at a press conference last week, in which he
vowed to press on with the surge, saying "we had to question his
mental stability".
Democrat leaders last night ordered the Senate into an all-night
session in an attempt to force Republicans to back a motion calling
for troops to withdraw from Iraq by the end of April 2008. Later
this week another motion, proposed by the Republican senators
Richard Lugar and John Warner and calling on Mr Bush to get a new
strategy in place by mid-October, is also due for debate.
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