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 An independent research group of notable terrorism experts, The Council on Global Terrorism has issued the US a grade of D+ in it’s fight against global Islamic extremism. This grade is in stark contrast to what President Bush believes he should receive on his report card.

Bush’s ideology of fighting terrorists “over there” rather than here has worked since September 11th. In the last 5 years the US has not been struck again, while countries like Spain, Britain and other nations have been attacked. Furthermore, we have been fighting Islamic radicals in Iraq for over 3 years in what Senator John McCain has called “A game of whack em all.”

But American intelligence agencies argue that the war in Iraq has helped fuel Islamic Radicalism. In other words, by going into Iraq we have created more terrorists and the US is not any safer than it was. This is contrary to Bush’s belief that by fighting the terrorists in Iraq we would kill most of them and they would be gone for good. This has not been the case but at least Mr. Bush has gotten good on the job training. 

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